How can we discuss inclusive cities when most streets are dedicated to men? Committing a road to one person, as opposed to another, implies celebrating all the values associated with them. Research has shown a correlation between a city’s gender bias in street names and cultural factors, like gender equality in that city. Street names are not neutral, and it is time to talk about them so that all citizens feel included and represented by the values that cities celebrate.
My Square was a project co-designed with the local community. A semi-abandoned square with a park and a theatrical stage was brought back to life, with the help of the Municipality Youth Volunteer Group and the locals. Various environmental and cultural activities, such as tree planting and the development of an audio-walk with the locals’ memories of the square, increased the sense of belonging, which led to the revitalization of the space since the locals are now visiting the place.
The Anttila Farm Incubator urban concept stems from the will to create an efficient fusion between the urban and the rural environment, offering the inhabitants the activities and peacefulness of the rural setting with the commodities and density of a semi-urban settlement. The creation of a cooperative agro-productive community is the starting point to achieve this concept by assuring the economical sustainability of the site while keeping the culture and heritage of the site.
The innovation model allows one to get the experience of craft work. Combining the elements of tradition and modernity gives a sense of creation and influence physical reality. The main idea of this revitalization project is: less products, more experience. The experience is understood as accessible for everyone because the project is about maximum social inclusion. It’s concerns the crafts in 21st century’s economy and the development of the creative competence of the whole world’s citizens.
FUTUREUM is a green, open and sustainable platform within a revitalised block of a former coal tippler and grinding mill situated at DOV, a former industrial zone and national cultural heritage site turned into a knowledge cluster. FUTUREUM is an inclusive, shared space for experiments and creatives to celebrate the hard work of coal miners and steel producers of the past and present the visions of future work and life. FUTUREUM brings added aesthetic value and reconnects people and generations.
The TANGÓ project is a complex project: on the one hand, it approaches a part of local histories of the Teleki square of Budapest that has been less researched by the mainstream, filling the gaps in the collection, processing and presentation of the past. On the other hand, it seeks to broaden the range of visual representations and vocabularies of absent voices by involving contemporary photographers, architects, urbanists, criminologists, literary historians and cultural researchers.
Sacromonte Caves Museum is a participatory project piloted by local residents’ organisation ”Vaivén-Paraíso”, to restore natural, cultural and social heritage in the valley of the Darro River. The area, in Granada (Spain) has been a refuge for ethnic minorities – particularly gypsies – since the 15th century. Residents worked with various partners to rehabilitate traditional dwellings and caves, create a botanical garden and an area for performances and projections, where visitors can discover Roma people culture and local biodiversity.
Sava Activities is an adaptable waterfront public park project aiming to reintroduce the riverbanks of Zagreb’s Sava River to the daily life of the citizens. Exploring resilient and ecological solutions through participatory co-design processes, the project prioritized natural preservation; developed socio-cultural density without being necessarily urban; and envisioned providing a mutually harmonized common habitat balancing human use and natural processes.
SuperBarrio is a videogame for public space co-design. Superbarrio uses gamification strategies, attracting a larger audience, increasing engagement and developing virtuous relationships between citizens and neighborhoods.
It has an intuitive interface where users can visualise the 3D of the area to be codesigned, select some design possibilities (e.g. planting trees, integrating bike stations), visualise them in the 3D and visualise indicators related to the impact of their selections.
The microcosm of the quartier «Italie» stands as a mirror of the global history of Dudelange, even of Luxembourg and Europe. Moving Lusitalia is a physical and digital project based on stories of everyday life, revealing the changes in rhythm, time and space over the decades. A two-year project leading to a multimedia exhibition, a series of conferences and a permanent audiovisual journey (web app) that let people explore the Quartier, discovering meaningful places and their stories.
