Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA. Research: Building Trust international - Building Trust in academic institutions. This page is dedicated to the academic institutions that either work on Building Trust projects or share our views on design. Through working with students and teachers of design, engineering and architecture we hope to explore themes such as the duty of care, shelter provision, the rapid urbanisation of our built environments, the effects of global warming on design, the developing/ digital Worlds and many more topics that relate to design and its place shaping our collective future. If you represent a college or university and would like to discuss setting a project for your students we would love to hear from you. Please fill out our contact form or email: info@buildingtrustinternational.org Below is a growing resource of research papers that we find interesting and would like to share you.
Built environment + disaster relief: Social housing and resettlement: Single Occupancy housing: A conversation on TED.com: What do organized communities achieve more efficiently than government? What could they achieve?" Private Public Space. What do pop-up shops and homelessness have in common? What do the 'DIY urbanism' movement and homelessness have in common? Whether it's a temporary studio, a pop-up shop, a sleeping bag in a doorway or a tarpaulin under a bridge, all are informal responses to the scarcity of space for everyone's needs and ambitions.
But while DIY urbanism is hailed as a creative, revitalising force, the homeless are still marginalised in many cities. A group of young fashion designers occupy a studio space while the property group who manages it seeks a corporate tenancy. Next door, a snap-happy couple set up a temporary photography gallery in a disused shopfront owned by a wealthy local family. Elsewhere in the city, a man in his thirties keeps his sleeping bag and a couple of milk crates under the steps leading up to a large empty building on a street corner.
How are these two scenes related? So, whilst DIY urbanists and the primary homeless are responding to scarcity in very different orders, they share a reliance on marginal urban space. SFZero. SFZero or SF0 is a web-based community game invented in San Francisco.[1] It is a type of alternate reality game. SFZero players earn points by completing a wide variety of different tasks, often with a focus on creativity, exploration, community, or performance. Although the game was originally intended for San Francisco residents, its player base has expanded to include many other locales both in and outside of America. SFZero is the creation of Ian Kizu-Blair, Sam Lavigne and Sean Mahan of Playtime, a "nonprofit organization dedicated to producing free immersive art games that use new technologies in significant ways.
" Gameplay[edit] Groups[edit] In the early game, players were required to align with a group upon starting the game. However, beginning in the era of Insatiability, the 'restrictive' rule of choosing a group before play has been eliminated. Each group has its own goals, interests, and an archive of group tasks. Tasks[edit] 1000 Small (Heavy) Things Kidnap Me Gently Tipping. Street Skiing—AMAZING! [Weekend Watch] Often architects, developers and city planners try to sell their redevelopment’s with glossy brochures and vibrant mock ups. However, more often than not, these place turn out to either be dead, or sterile places. The problem isn’t always a lack of uses or diversity; rather it is that these places are often planned to the last window awning or flower bed. They lack the ‘messiness’ that make a city livable. The most vibrant cities I’ve lived in or visited share one thing in common. They are messy. This is a difficult concept to accept—most people’s idea of a beautiful city that looks something like Paris or some other city with a continuous urban form.
Part of the appeal of messy urbanism is that it leaves room for future improvements in other words, it leave creates space for people to contribute to their neighborhood. In The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs points out that the most economically vibrant cities are usually inefficient and impractical. Other ‘M’ Urbanisms Like this: Rooftops and Infiltration | urban exploration | sleepycity. THE MOVIE. We. Arundhati Roy - Share It. Don’t Occupy Wall Street—Transform It. It’s time for a new generation of social change leaders to move beyond occupying Wall Street to transform it. Occupy Wall Street has done a great job of shining a light of truth on the failed leadership of our greedy, crony capitalist business sector. Inadvertently, it shines an equally unflattering light on what’s missing in the leadership of our nation’s social justice sector. There’s no debate that our business culture has failed Americans. The last time this small number of people held this level of power and wealth while the average citizen felt powerless, we held a revolution to overthrow a monarchy.
Though its members have been lampooned as left wing nuts, OWS has garnered a majority of the American public’s support. However, lacking a clear plan of action, they risk forfeiting their ability to lead. Already, their most embarrassing participants define them. Polarization makes things worse. Where will we find this new generation of leaders? But Shamsian still faces challenges. Elos.
Social Commentators/Online Opinion. Understanding the World's Urban Transition. Chuck Wolfe and Ana Maria Manzo join forces to offer a global perspective on the changes underway in the urban areas of the world. "Today, we are driven by a new sustainability ethic, necessarily systemic in scope. Carbon-neutrality is a commonly stated goal, and location efficiency, clean energy and the return of neighborhood are the watchwords of change. Formulas, metrics, and new regulatory systems attempt results, and show the quest to measure how close we are to achieving ideal forms of location and development.
But as both of us have written in different languages, context is key, and adaptation to a multi-environmental sense of place, associated imagery and sensation is an essential element of building design, urban development and innovation going forward. Creating attractive buildings that are able to work for the environment, or crafting appropriate enabling regulations, should also be considered as part of a broader, holistic effort. Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ I was asked to write an article around ‘bottom-up planning’ by Architectural Review Australia a while ago. It was published in the last issue, and I’m re-posting here. ‘Bottom-up’ is hardly the most elegant phrase, but I suspect you know what I mean.
Either way, I re-cast it in the article as ‘emergent urbanism’ which captured a little more of the non-planning approaches I was interested in (note also the blog of same name, which I didn’t know about beforehand). It partly concerns increased transparency over the urban planning process but also, and perhaps more interestingly, how citizens might be able to proactively engage in the creation of their cities. While it applies to Australian cities most closely, I hope the ideas here might be more generally interesting. And for those of you outside Australia, there are a few subtitles required to read this. In short, the city of Newcastle, NSW is the largest coal port in the world. Yimby = Yes In My Backyard With that, have a read. Rebar Art & Design Studio | San Francisco | art, design and ecology. Fun urbanism: Group video game in a Madrid plaza. Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (Kotanyi & Vaneigem) Constant's New Babylon: the hyper-architecture of desire - Mark Wigley.
Occupy as psychogeographic urbanism [draft 3] [Draft 5 is much longer and edited in many places, to make it a bit easier: # mostly unchanged, # changed, # new paragraph.] “As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.” - Declaration of the Occupation of New York City [1] “It is like a little village.
They have got a food tent, a welfare tent, a first aid tent, an information tent, a library tent and a university tent where they have their daily meetings. It is very well organised… They have organised there own portaloos but there is still a problem with street urination… The rainwater gullies have been blocked up with food waste.” – Assistant director of Street Scene on OccupyLSX [2] “At night, with such a big crowd in it, the space had started to redefine itself a bit, and more by ambience than function.
[December 2011 – March 2012] Mass Moving, des Insoumis dans l’Art | Memento Production. Version française – Nederlandse Versie – English Version L’histoire d’un mouvement artistique né en Belgique et en Hollande dans la foulée de mai 68. Composé d’artistes et d’ingénieurs, le groupe se définit par des projets et des actions éphémères. Le but de Mass Moving ? Sortir l’Art des musées et des galeries en investissant la ville et la rue, promouvoir l’importance de la terre et le concept de chaîne planétaire, faire appel à une dimension ludique et à la participation des spectateurs, dénoncer l’ordre bourgeois et les conventions établies.
Le groupe se définit par des Actions réalisées à travers le monde. Quand les Mass-Movers réalisent que le fonctionnement du groupe ne correspond plus à leur idéal de départ, ils se sabordent en 1976 par un autodafé spectaculaire, détruisant les machines, brûlant les dessins, les photos, les films et les affiches. Le film est illustré par de nombreuses archives d’époque. Sélection au Festival International du Film d’Art de Montréal 2007. A Journey to the worlds' sustainable cities / Brisbane to Bogota. Edible Brisbane: Public Fruit. Activismo 2.0 y empoderamiento ciudadano en red (II) Bienvenida sea la crisis económica si gracias a ella las sociedades democráticas asumen actitudes más participativas y conscientes de su condición, precisamente, democrática. Los recientes acontecimientos de reivindicación social como el 15-M, la Primavera Árabe o la ocupación de Wall Street lo han puesto de relieve: los ciudadanos no quieren renunciar al papel como supervisores de la gestión de los gobiernos porque –en una democracia– el verdadero gobierno son los ciudadanos.
El voto significa cada vez menos una acción aislada que sucede cada cuatro años y cada vez más un ejercicio de confianza previo a una actividad que será supervisada, en directo, y con derecho permanente a réplica por parte de la ciudadanía. Solo hay que recordar que en España una de las mejores formas de pulsar el debate colectivo de la campaña a las elecciones generales 2011 fue siguiendo su flujo de hashtags en Twitter. Queremos saber Alimentando el procomún Crowdsourcing para innovar en lo público Por Pilar Gonzalo. Five Things Governments Can Do to Encourage Civic Startups « Civic Innovations. 2012 is shaping up to be the “Year of the Civic Startup.” With the growth of the open government movement and more and more governments embracing open data, we see an increasing number of useful civic applications being developed. Every weekend hackathon spawns multiple projects that could potentially live on as a successful venture or company.
Some hackathons are specifically geared toward producing viable companies – this is exactly the approach that was taken at last November’s “Education Hack Day” in Baltimore. At that event, the idea was to set up winners with as much expert advice and opportunity as possible to launch a business around their weekend project to help teachers. Generally speaking, a “civic startup” is a startup company with a focus on civic improvement or social good. Everyone benefits when voters are more engaged and participate more regularly in elections, or when city neighborhoods are cleaned up. 1. I’ve made this argument before, as have many others. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Can Karaoke Transform Public Space? This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional) Government agencies and marketing bureaus across the globe strive to find ways to get people into parks and using public spaces. Some spend millions with extravagant firework spectaculars, while others import international music acts or host an almost continuous string of farmer’s markets and craft fairs, many of which fail to deliver a certain je ne sais quoi.
But in a not-so-pristine park in Berlin, an Irish guy named Joe draws crowds of more than 3,000 people … with karaoke. Which got me thinking, can karaoke transform our public spaces? It seems an odd thing to say, but yes, I believe it probably can. I first learned about Joe from my trusted Lonely Planet guidebook, which told me that Bearpit Karaoke was a ‘must see’ for a Sunday afternoon in Berlin I couldn’t resist investigating! I arrived at Mauerpark amazed at the activity. Bottom-up approaches are changing patterns of activity in our cities. Images via waxorian and nachtbus.