BMW Guggenheim Lab | Urban Design & Urban Think Tank | BMW Guggenheim Lab. BMW Guggenheim Lab | Urban Design & Urban Think Tank | BMW Guggenheim Lab. Pattern Cities. The Street Plans Collaborative - Better Streets, Better Places. New York Miami. Creating Public Spaces which Encourage Strangers to Interact. September 3, 2012 by Smart Urban Stage This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional), Spanish Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case meets Charlie Todd – activist, author and founder of Improv Everywhere - as part of a series discussing the future of the city on Smart Urban Stage Modern cities are full of “non-places” – locations where people are strangers to one another and have no impetus to interact. In a modern world of isolation and non-places, cell phones are a comfortable lighthouse in a sea of uncertain social situations.
Amber Case: How do we make public areas where strangers are encouraged to communicate with each other instead of stare into screens? Improv Everywhere: When I moved to New York in the summer of 2001, it was my first time living in a large city. That summer started Improv Everywhere, in part, as a tool to create disturbances that would encourage random strangers to interact with each other. The world starts to loosen up. Urbanismo Tactico. City development through active citizenship - Orange Innovation. Interventions - a tool for urban development Through various twists and turns, the last year of my life has been influenced and shaped by the concept of urban interventions and active citizenship.
One way through the fact that it is becoming increasingly popular as an urban trend. Its growing viral presence on social media has sort of taken over my facebook wall. I think many know these examples: Or Another way I have been exposed to the concept, is through the Colombian based urban movement 100 En Un Dia (100 In 1 Day), which I, together with a group of international Kaospilot students, helped co-create with a group of talented and inspiring Colombian designers, social entrepreneurs and city developers. A global Day of Action But why is city development undergoing a decentralisation And how come cities are being reclaimed by its citizens? So what is an urban intervention?
A laboratory for lasting change Why now? I would like to end this post of by giving the word to this guy – Jason Roberts. Thinkpublic. Features. Community Museum Project.
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