Posts Tagged ‘urban planning’
ATELIER BOW-WOW
Participating artists/designers: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima
Atelier Bow Wow are a Japanese architecture firm concerned with lived space. One of their most famous projects, Pet Architecture attempts to catalogue buildings in Tokyo sprouting up in irregular spaces between established buildings. These structures represent a kind of ‘schizophrenia’ in the urban planning of Japan. Made in Tokyo, is a similar taxonomical undertaking with Tokyo’s urban landscape as its subject.
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Atelier Bow-Wow
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CENTER FOR RURAL DESIGN
Participating Artists/Designers: Centre for Rural design, University of Minnesota
Urban design is a term familiar to most, yet the idea of rural design is alien to many. In response to this, the University of Minnesota’s College of Design have joined forces with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences to introduce ‘The Centre for Rural Design’ as a means of balancing the immense attention spent on urban planning. Focusing on bringing design into rural areas, the program seeks to examine how design can better the rural environment – in particular issues of land use.
LINKED HYBRID: STEPHEN HOLLS ARCHITECTS
Participating Artists/Designers:
Stephen Holls Architects (Washington)
China is one of the most rapidly growing urban centres. Linked Hybrid is a significant new building development in the city of Beijing, the architects attempting to deliberately create a kind of vernacular urbanism. Complete with public roof gardens, sky bridges and an elevator that ‘jump-cuts’ to each level, Linked Hybrid fashions itself as a ‘city within a city’, an urban environment conducive to new forms of social interaction. The building was recently named the 2009 “BEST TALL BUILDING” IN the ASIA & AUSTRALIA CATEGORY BY THE COUNCIL ON TALL BUILDINGS AND URBAN HABITAT, (New York).
THE HIGH LINE
Participating Artists/Designers: Friends of the Highline (Joshua David and Robert Hammond) and The City of New York
The High Line is an above-ground section of New York’s railway system, located on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Disused since 1980, the tracks making up the Highline were historically used to ferret freight trains through the city as smoothly as possible.The abandoned space was recently redeveloped into a public park and garden, with an attending schedule of events and public programs. The High Line perhaps represents the epitome of the current trend towards the augmentation of built structures to incorporate greenery. The project is testament to the increasingly contested boundaries between city and regional locations.
ARCH-OS SYSTEMS
Founders:
Institute of Digital Art & Technology and produced by members of the School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, University of Plymouth.
Arch-OS is an open-source platform for recording the social lives of buildings. Exploring the concept of the ‘cybrid’ - architectural and electronic hybrid – Arch-OS technology allows artists and designers to develop and stage interventions into the public realm. Hence an experiment like the Random Lift Project: in an era where we take great pains to anticipate the unpredictable, Chris Speed’s Random lift button delights in subjecting its audience to the uncertainty of chance. The lift is essentially a non-space; a transient realm designed to transport people from one point to the next. By inverting its functionality Speed’s lift button allows riders to contemplate movement, commuting as a fundamental element of our experience of place. The Arch-Os system encourages designers to explore the built environment in relation to systems of inhabitation and use.
URBAN INTERIOR
Participating artists:
Robyn Healy
Mick Peel
Mick Douglas
Malte Wagenfeld
Suzie Attiwil
Kate Church
Michael Fowler
Roger Kemp
Rochus Urban Hinkel
Urban Interior are a research group based at RMIT University and comprised of academics and researchers from across the design disciplines. Urban Interior use design to test the boundaries between interior and exterior in urban environments. Recent projects include Urban Interior Occupation (a project at Craft Victoria which saw the space and the conditions of engagement within it continuously transformed by a succession of projects) and the more recent Urban [Di]version a set of ‘guerilla’ installations in and around Sparks Lane in Melbourne. Urban Interior encourages us to imagine new possibilities for the city.
DIY CITY
Participating Artists/Designers:
John Geraci (Creator)
Anthony Townsend (Advisor)
Sean Savage (Social Expert)
Dan Greenblatt (Project Design)
An open source forum dedicated to using online applications to improve cities. DIY City is a compelling example of the use of social networking technology to debate both the place of design in our everyday lives and the increasing dissolution of urban and regional boundaries.
N55
Participating Artists/Designers
Ion Sørvin (Co-founder)
Øivind Alexander Slaatto
N55 is a design and architecture collective founded on the principle of ‘rebuilding the city from within’. Based in Copenhagen, N55 create objects, situations and systems that explore the psychological resonance of public space. Manuals for realized designs are then distributed freely on the group’s website for anyone to download and replicate at their leisure. Notable projects include LAND, a system for exchanging pieces of land and WALKING HOUSE, a nomadic dwelling. Here open source design is utilized as a form of social activism; a means to challenge modes of inhabitation.
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