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*Play-Tallinn | |||
Project Description: Our research tested the notion of an integrated regional identity formation as desired by region makers to determine whether this model, or alternate emergent forms better describe the situation of the Helsinki-Tallinn-Region (HTR). The cross border effects as well as historical pre-conditions manifest in the urban fabric of Tallinn appeared to us as an archipelago of ‘islands’, each with different economic, social, and cultural milieus; segregations overlooked or under considered by city planners and administrators. The model of the archipelago also created an inverse space between these hegemonic ‘islands’ where new inputs can enrich HTR’s diversity. These latter hypotheses were tested in Tallinn through a series of public interventions in May 2008, concluding with a discussion between city planners, architects, art critics and general public.<br> | |||
Links to browse the projec''t:'' http://www.cityleft.altervista.org/interventions/tallinn/tallinn.htm; http://eu-urbanism-bordercities.bauhaus-dessau.de/; http://heltalapelago.blogspot.com/ | |||
Location: Tallin, Estonia <br> | |||
Author: Bauhaus Kolleg is an interdisciplinary research school concerned with urbanism. It is based in Dessau at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.<br> | |||
Bauhaus Kolleg is an interdisciplinary research school concerned with urbanism. It is based in Dessau at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. | |||
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*Olohuone | |||
Project Description: An urban intervention/experiment open for public use. A symbolic representation of s domestic "living-room" made of second hand furniture and objects, set in the busy interior of the Wets Hall of Helsinki Railway Station. In addition there was music from a sound system, books for people to read and take with them, free water from a water dispenser, blankets for people to keep warm, incense from Greece and Somalia, posters explaining the main idea of the installation as well as informative flyers in Finnish, Swedish, Somali and Russian language. | |||
Olohuone (living room in Finnish) was a platform for encountering the Other and possible for engaging into some form of communication and intercultural dialogue. Therefore, it was also a platform for a shift of perspective to stand a chance to occur. With Olohuone I wanted to challenge the dichotomous division of the public and private conditions of our lives. I wanted to bring culturally indistinct "domestic" comfort in the busy space of the station and to make the latter softer and more inclusive, while commenting on its commercialisation. A group that I particularly wanted to make welcome were Somali transnationals living in Helsinki, some of whom have been stigmatised by their use of the station as social space. Although Somalis for many reasons didn’t use Olohuone, many other people took the opportunity offered: Finnish and foreigners, young and old, homeless and propertied people, men and women, and so on.<br>Olohuone was realised with the financial support of the Art Council of Finland, and the help of friends, in the period 21-29 of September 2005. | Olohuone (living room in Finnish) was a platform for encountering the Other and possible for engaging into some form of communication and intercultural dialogue. Therefore, it was also a platform for a shift of perspective to stand a chance to occur. With Olohuone I wanted to challenge the dichotomous division of the public and private conditions of our lives. I wanted to bring culturally indistinct "domestic" comfort in the busy space of the station and to make the latter softer and more inclusive, while commenting on its commercialisation. A group that I particularly wanted to make welcome were Somali transnationals living in Helsinki, some of whom have been stigmatised by their use of the station as social space. Although Somalis for many reasons didn’t use Olohuone, many other people took the opportunity offered: Finnish and foreigners, young and old, homeless and propertied people, men and women, and so on.<br>Olohuone was realised with the financial support of the Art Council of Finland, and the help of friends, in the period 21-29 of September 2005. | ||
Links to browse the project: Olohuone is described in detail and analysed in the book Space Unjust: Socio-spatial Discrimination in Urban Public Space - Cases from Helsinki and Athens. This is my published doctoral dissertation for the University of Arts and Design Helsinki (curently Aalto University, School of Art and Design). The book is available to order at https://www.taik.fi/kirjakauppa/product_info.php?cPath=20&products_id=106 | |||
In addition a brief presentation of Olohuone is available at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/FullSizeArt/ast_id/25590/image_id/179052/imageno/1 | In addition a brief presentation of Olohuone is available at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/FullSizeArt/ast_id/25590/image_id/179052/imageno/1 | ||
Location<br> | Location: Helsinki, Finland<br> | ||
Michail Galanakis was born on the island of Crete in 1969. I studied architecture in Aristotle University in Greece, and industrial design research (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL. In early 2008 I graduated as a Doctor of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki with the publication of my dissertation Space Unjust: Socio-spatial Discrimination in Urban Public Space - Cases from Helsinki and Athens. I have worked as an architect, university lecturer and conducted my MA and PhD supported by numerous scholarships and grants. I currently work as a free lance expert, giving lectures and courses, and writing scientific and general interest articles about inclusive urban public space.<br> | ''Author:'' Michail Galanakis was born on the island of Crete in 1969. I studied architecture in Aristotle University in Greece, and industrial design research (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL. In early 2008 I graduated as a Doctor of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki with the publication of my dissertation Space Unjust: Socio-spatial Discrimination in Urban Public Space - Cases from Helsinki and Athens. I have worked as an architect, university lecturer and conducted my MA and PhD supported by numerous scholarships and grants. I currently work as a free lance expert, giving lectures and courses, and writing scientific and general interest articles about inclusive urban public space.<br> | ||
== Africa == | == Africa == | ||
Revision as of 20:41, 15 October 2010
Introduction
P2P urbanism is "open source urbanism", by the people, for the people. You can read an introductory essay in Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society.
The goal is to use this wiki page for the draft material for a geolocated P2P-Urbanism World Atlas at http://cityleft.blogspot.com/p/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas.html
Source Material
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The projects
Please list your project here. If your country or region is not listed, add it!
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Americas
Mexico
- Xalapa, Veracruz - House and workshop designed with Christopher Alexander's methods. Contact User:FedericoMenaQuintero for details. Lat: 19.495561, Lon: -96.85438.
Europe
- Play-Tallinn
Project Description: Our research tested the notion of an integrated regional identity formation as desired by region makers to determine whether this model, or alternate emergent forms better describe the situation of the Helsinki-Tallinn-Region (HTR). The cross border effects as well as historical pre-conditions manifest in the urban fabric of Tallinn appeared to us as an archipelago of ‘islands’, each with different economic, social, and cultural milieus; segregations overlooked or under considered by city planners and administrators. The model of the archipelago also created an inverse space between these hegemonic ‘islands’ where new inputs can enrich HTR’s diversity. These latter hypotheses were tested in Tallinn through a series of public interventions in May 2008, concluding with a discussion between city planners, architects, art critics and general public.
Links to browse the project: http://www.cityleft.altervista.org/interventions/tallinn/tallinn.htm; http://eu-urbanism-bordercities.bauhaus-dessau.de/; http://heltalapelago.blogspot.com/
Location: Tallin, Estonia
Author: Bauhaus Kolleg is an interdisciplinary research school concerned with urbanism. It is based in Dessau at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
- Olohuone
Project Description: An urban intervention/experiment open for public use. A symbolic representation of s domestic "living-room" made of second hand furniture and objects, set in the busy interior of the Wets Hall of Helsinki Railway Station. In addition there was music from a sound system, books for people to read and take with them, free water from a water dispenser, blankets for people to keep warm, incense from Greece and Somalia, posters explaining the main idea of the installation as well as informative flyers in Finnish, Swedish, Somali and Russian language.
Olohuone (living room in Finnish) was a platform for encountering the Other and possible for engaging into some form of communication and intercultural dialogue. Therefore, it was also a platform for a shift of perspective to stand a chance to occur. With Olohuone I wanted to challenge the dichotomous division of the public and private conditions of our lives. I wanted to bring culturally indistinct "domestic" comfort in the busy space of the station and to make the latter softer and more inclusive, while commenting on its commercialisation. A group that I particularly wanted to make welcome were Somali transnationals living in Helsinki, some of whom have been stigmatised by their use of the station as social space. Although Somalis for many reasons didn’t use Olohuone, many other people took the opportunity offered: Finnish and foreigners, young and old, homeless and propertied people, men and women, and so on.
Olohuone was realised with the financial support of the Art Council of Finland, and the help of friends, in the period 21-29 of September 2005.
Links to browse the project: Olohuone is described in detail and analysed in the book Space Unjust: Socio-spatial Discrimination in Urban Public Space - Cases from Helsinki and Athens. This is my published doctoral dissertation for the University of Arts and Design Helsinki (curently Aalto University, School of Art and Design). The book is available to order at https://www.taik.fi/kirjakauppa/product_info.php?cPath=20&products_id=106
In addition a brief presentation of Olohuone is available at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/FullSizeArt/ast_id/25590/image_id/179052/imageno/1
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Author: Michail Galanakis was born on the island of Crete in 1969. I studied architecture in Aristotle University in Greece, and industrial design research (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL. In early 2008 I graduated as a Doctor of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki with the publication of my dissertation Space Unjust: Socio-spatial Discrimination in Urban Public Space - Cases from Helsinki and Athens. I have worked as an architect, university lecturer and conducted my MA and PhD supported by numerous scholarships and grants. I currently work as a free lance expert, giving lectures and courses, and writing scientific and general interest articles about inclusive urban public space.
Africa
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Asia
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Oceania
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