This artwork is a narrative map as part of a participatory process around the redevelopment project of the surroundings of the Gette in the city of Tienen, in Belgium. This map has been created between October 2018 and October 2019. Different steps have been necessary to create it :

• Urban, cartographic and historical research
• Walks along the Gette: getting to know the place and the inhabitants
• Workshop with local residents: analyze the site, strengths, weaknesses
• Illustration of a map that transcribes the research and the content of the walks and the workshop
• Workshop around the final map: analyze reactions, generate ideas for the project.

Les ‘Cartes Narratives’ are hand-illustrated cards that tell stories about a place - a street, a neighborhood, a city - for a day, a week or a year. They are illustrated in the form of axonometric plans with proportions and scales open to interpretation, revealing characteristics, key places, anecdotes, atmospheres and the identity of a place. They reflect the personal feelings and the own experiences of the illustrator, residents and individuals, and allow encounters, spaces and stories to be remembered. Les Cartes Narratives are a tool for communication, discussion and reflection on a territory. In particular, they make it possible to establish a link between residents and project leaders or designers. They link the different areas of expertise of the illustrator, namely, land use planning, the development of a participatory process and illustration by hand.

This is a corner just by the entrance door of Örebro art college in Sweden. A simple, ordinary table is standing there for years and sending the same message: " You can take everything put on this table." It also means "If you want to share something, you could put it here." Anything put on this table can be taken by someone. This is a place provides the space to reflect how we think about our behavior of owning things, and how we share in our community. This simple table with the simple concept of sharing changes people's mindset. 

"Something I do not need anymore,
Might be something you are looking for.
Something I do not like anymore,
Might be something you are attracted to.”

The table is just a start, a median. Inspired by this table, people here stop buying new cloth instead of changing cloth regularly. People go out of this place and continue to spread the influence wider, further, and deeper. Sometimes, to change a place, to change something does not need a big, complex project. It matters how a place and the people grow together with the time.

The main purpose of the intervention is to redirect the common course of pedestrians inside the main square by reactivating the zone with an exterior exhibition guided by a lightning jellyfish made of pvc pipes.

Los "pedales estáticos" cumplen la función de reactivar la zona de la Plaça de la Cultura de Bellvitge. La ubicación es escencial para entender su funcionamiento, se colocaron al lado de los pedales de bicicleta que están frente a unos bancos para sentarse. Al colocarse ahí, resaltan la controversia de que en un mismo banco pueda haber un sector de ejercicio y uno de descanso. La combinación de tubos de pvc en forma de codo, generan una figura similar a la de una vibora, con niveles altos y otros bajos. De esta manera, con un único objeto se ofrecen múltiples apoyos, invitando a las personas a utilizar esta zona. 

La intención de esta escultura es principalmente ser un punto de referencia en una zona tan transitada por los miembros de la comunidad de Bellvitge. Se conforma por dos estructuras principales de PVC que forman una especie de escalera orgánica, y se unen encontrándose al centro. El objetivo es llamar la atención, animar el espacio, convirtiéndolo en un lugar en donde la gente pueda reunirse y convivir

Narrative İnfrastructure of Famagusta is a pilot project to map the oral histories of the commuinty as a way for locals to imbue their environment with their own stories.

Narrative İnfrastructure focuses on existing neighborhoods and helps them recognize and reinforce their informal traditions. Developers and politicians can use community story maps to enhance continuity with projects, contextualizing new initiatives with the local sense of identity. We do this by recording and mapping the oral history stories of the neighbourhood, and looking for patterns in the story themes that can be incorporated and expanded upon.

El trabajo consiste en la relación y conexión de tres sitios: el parking de viviendas, la plaza y la rambla. Los tentáculos se entrelazan en la farola con una doble función: la de reactivar el sitio y unir al mismo tiempo zonas no conectadas. Los tubos representan esa union generando un crecimiento ascendente por la farola de las tres ramas que se termina sintetizando en altura en una sola como “union de partes”. Los extremos contienen macetas/tierra y un contenedor de agua; simbolizando las necesidades de espacios verdes y agua necesarios en estas zonas. 

At the end of 2020 Rhizoma Design and Research Lab launched a Call for Postcards to explore the effect of the pandemic on public space, inviting designers, artists, and activists to reflect upon the paradigm shift happening in cities, observing the changing everyday praxis of inhabiting public space as well as envisioning its future, to capture their insights in a Postcard. The format is a provocation per se, as it encapsulates the idea of travelling -  action forbidden by the pandemic.

The call led to a virtual and physical exhibition titled, Back to the Future of Public Space: Postcards from 2020, a collective narrative encapsulating thoughts, fears, and hopes on the role of public space in our lives.  

The exhibition is a travelling entity that adapts and is shaped by the place and the people that host it. Since April 2021, it has been hosted in different places, creating a network of spaces across the globe temporarily transformed by the exhibition and involving the community in the transformation.

Community participation was achieved through the model of a Do It Yourself exhibition that provided people with a manual offering simple instructions and suggesting a creative interaction with the exhibition. 

The participation of the community in the setting of the exhibition generated a new connection between the hosting space and the users, temporarily making the hosting space a framework and place to trigger reflections and discussions.

Among other spaces, the exhibition was set up at the Rhizome LLC Space, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech (US) in September 2021. Students and faculty collaborated in making the exhibition, shaping together the temporary setting of the space. 

This travelling exhibition is an example of how art and creative actions can create a bond between a space and the people that inhabit it.

El proyecto consiste en crear con los tubos una gran maceta irregular de distintas alturas, con flores en su interior e incluyendo 2 de los arboles existentes de la zona que hemos elegido. El sitio donde nos ubicamos es un poco alejado y menos visitado por la personas que frecuentan este sector ya que eligen otras zonas para pasar el rato, por eso nuestro objetivo es darle mas color y vida a este lugar para atraer a las personas y se vuelva mas llamativo.

El proyecto consiste en crear con los tubos una gran maceta irregular de distintas alturas, con flores en su interior e incluyendo 2 de los arboles existentes de la zona que hemos elegido. El sitio donde nos ubicamos es un poco alejado y menos visitado por la personas que frecuentan este sector ya que eligen otras zonas para pasar el rato, por eso nuestro objetivo es darle mas color y vida a este lugar para atraer a las personas y se vuelva mas llamativo.

The location that we picked was so isolated that is why we wanted to make this place attractive. The first thing you can see in this location was trees and the shape of triangles on the ground. We wanted emphasize those with making this tringular 2D shape as a 3D and creating sculpture as abstract trees. When people come visit this sculpture they can take advantage of shadow that trees create at day time and at night time we can use street light as a advantage.

LA FAILLE is an urban social sculpture of the garden city Kapelleveld in Brussels which was co-produced with the philosophy of working from within the existing socio-spatial context.

Through reintroducing in the heart of the city a garden we work from the existing landscape planning as the project recalls and recreates a relationship to the valley and to nature that was originally set out in the 1920 urban planning of the garden city.

Through reusing the existing materials that we find and collect on the site itself with worked from within the existing physical situation, giving a second life to the existing materials on the site.

Through working with the existing actors on the site - mainly the inhabitants -  to co-design and co-construct a series of urban interventions we produced a process of setting up the urban social sculpture in the garden city Kapelleveld.

The project was financed by SLRB (social housing institution of Brussels), made possible by the programme of the 101é% of the SLRB (artistic department of the social housing institution of Brussels), designed for ABC, co-produced with the team 55 (inhabitants from the cité Jardin) and designed by Alive Architecture and Taktyk.