‘Urban gardens’ are a plethora of socio-cultural, historical and environmental learning, that allows varied observant assert the sense of ‘the right to the city’ or reclaim an ‘urban commons’. One such urban garden uniquely hanging upon a historical water reservoir on Malabar Hill has been a source of solace and wonder for locals. Designed by Ulhas Ghapokar in 1881 and dedicated to Sir Pherozshah Mehta, it is narrated to have been built over one of Bombay’s main water reservoir to protect it from getting polluted, particularly by the nearby towers of silence. The photovoice method chosen here for representation would showcase how a diverse group of visitors or locals see their interests towards fostering ‘civic ecological sense’ and ‘social associations’ with the flora-fauna and history in the city. This could aim in conceptualizing future sustainable measures flexibly, placing ideas related to social associations, heritage and ecological concerns.

The temporary intervention was part of a practice lead research of the place of the Mapocho River in the Public Imaginary through its bridges, edges and the torrent. The Mapocho River was canalised in the late 19th C to mitigate the flooding, create public space and connect the north and south sides of Santiago de Chile via 9 meccano bridges. This was part of the Indendente Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna's modernisation of Santiago to make it "the Paris of South America". The canal was constructed posthumously 1888-1910 and the flooding torrent continues to be domesticated. Nature transitioning into culture via bridges. In the 1950s a particular bridge was constructed that crosses two flows, that of the river and that of the expressway constructed on its southern bank. The form of Racalamac bridge (a.k.a. Condell Bridge) is determined by these two periods of modernisation. It is a steep pedestrian bridge that is also an unlikely, popular and iconic public space of transition. The intervention traces the space created by this transition in a kinetic mapping of the inverted arc and the upstream wind that blows in the passage of the Mapcocho towards the Andes that is its source. A bronze builders plumbob was engraved with a quote of Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna "La Ciudad Enferma es Rescatable" (The sick city can be saved). 300 weighted casts were made and suspended by builders string from the bridge. The kinetic, temporary sculpture was installed for one day as part of 100 en 1 Día. From the edges of the river, the intervention appeared as a billowing, barely visible curtain ended by hovering plumbobs. From the bridge a vertigenous scene of parabolic curves are created over an invisible X,Y, Z grid and a horizontally surging torrent.    

Durante una excursión al Hospitalet nos dimos cuenta de cómo, para llegar a lugares como la biblioteca o el mercado, que quedan más alejadas de la vía principal, el parque cobra una vital importancia para los peatones o habitantes.

Por ello, pensamos en remarcar como el parque sirve como espacio de transición entre la vía y los lugares de uso público. Haciendo una escultura longitudinal que sirviera a modo de camino entre estos espacios.

Por desgracia la idea inicial se tuve que transladar al campus conectando un espacio de paso entre dos edificios con un espacio más retirado que hace a modo de pequeña plaza, para que este obtuviera más visibilidad.

Te flower Pots, as the title suggests, it is going to be placed around the flower to enhance and highlights flower and nature in the city.

Durante una excursión al Hospitalet nos dimos cuenta de cómo, para llegar a lugares como la biblioteca o el mercado, que quedan más alejadas de la vía principal, el parque cobra una vital importancia para los peatones o habitantes.

Por ello, pensamos en remarcar como el parque sirve como espacio de transición entre la vía y los lugares de uso público. Haciendo una escultura longitudinal que sirviera a modo de camino entre estos espacios.

Durante una excursión al Hospitalet nos dimos cuenta de cómo, para llegar a lugares como la biblioteca o el mercado, que quedan más alejadas de la vía principal, el parque cobra una vital importancia para los peatones o habitantes.

Por ello, pensamos en remarcar como el parque sirve como espacio de transición entre la vía y los lugares de uso público. Haciendo una escultura longitudinal que sirviera a modo de camino entre estos espacios.

Located in a vacant train station in Brussels, the aim of three interventions was to (re) construct the social, spatial, and material aspects of space with the means of historical imagination, drawing, and mapping.

Past, present & future tenses were used to investigate the changes throughout time and reflect upon the futurities in the public infrastructure.

The final outcome of the work was a short film ( https://youtu.be/Etqzf105UCM ).

The percussion instruments exist in multiple cultures, mainly in Brazil through the diverse musical styles. The sound installation is located at the Getúlio Vargas square, Florianopolis, Brazil. Around this square, there is a wide variety of important historic buildings of the city, and the location receives frequent visitors of all ages. Thus, the sound installation intends to increase the conviviality and appreciation of the cultural appropriation at all ages with percussive music, present in the local culture.

Our idea is based on proposing a sculpture that people can use as a landmark. The location we picked is an open space for the people in the community and by putting a sculpture that describes the bond of the people in L’Hospitalet, we want to change it from a passing point to a place to communicate and meet in. The blue colour, that signifies water, is used to remember the network of drains and canals that allowed the city to grow and have more people live in it further emphasising the special bond in the area.

El objectivo con este proyecto es aprovechar la plaza enfrente de la Biblioteca. En este caso, queremos trasladar parte de las actividades que se realizan en el interior, como el momento de lectura. Como bien explica a  Ayesha en "Biblioteca de Bellvitge" - en el exterior [...] hay mucho ruido y puede disraer a las personas que estudian dentro - por lo que, queremos proveer una área de descanso y de lectura donde los más pequeños puedan aprender que es una plaza ideal para aprender y escuchar. 

A kid from the neighborhood, Karima, describes Rambla Marina as a lovely place to go for a walk but has a problem with noise due to the traffic in the surrounding areas.

In order to fight that, our installation has the purpose to create vertical gardening. The main idea is to create something for people to have a place to plant and take care of some herbs and then later, use them to cook. That way, people can plant what they want and take care of this little installation that in the future will belong to them.

Our goal is to give more life to the place without compromise the place already existing and to create a union spirit inside the community.

The historic bench in terms of friendship that was labeled by Lucia, a kid from the neighbourhood, gives us an impression of meeting, friendship, the typical symbol that we use as a reference to meet somewhere. So this art work develops two lines that connect exactly in the middle of the bench, bringing to discussion a symbolic and abstract representation of two friends meeting and linking each other in the bench that brings friendship to a group of people.