Public Space As A Catalyst For Change
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This document discusses public space as a catalyst for change and strategies for improving urban qualities. It describes a research project led by JUUL|FROST Architects on this topic, with support from RealDania. The project takes a cross-disciplinary approach involving sociologists, architects, and others. It analyzes how the city, its spaces, activities, and the human body interact in urban space. Case studies of public spaces in Dublin and Barcelona are presented that use performative design to attract and direct flows of people in the space.
Public Space As A Catalyst For Change
- 1. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Helle Juul, creative director, Ph.D & Kristine Samson, Industrial Ph.D. Performative Aesthetics in Urban Space JUULFROST Architects JUUL FROST Architects David Ferner / KIT
- 2. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES CITY URBANITY AND SUSTAINABILITY JuulIFrost arkitekter JUUL FROST Architects
- 3. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES JUUL|FROSTARCHITECTS Kgl. Porcelænsfabrik - Housing Bøgebakken - Housing and landscape Master planning Campus planning Juul I Frost Architects are: RESEARCH + COMMUNICATION 41 employees: CITY + URBAN SPACE + LANDSCAPE 28 architects and planners 4 landscape designers HOUSING + BUILDINGS 3 construction architects 1 business PhD. 1 cand. mag. 1 ethnologist 1 architecture student 1 account administrator 1 intern ØI JuulIFrost arkitekter JUUL FROST Architects
- 4. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES RESEARCH + COMMUNICATION 1 BYENS RUM
- 5. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES ORGANISATION PROJECT PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE SUPPORT: 466.000 EURO FOR 2 YEARS FROM REALDANIA INTERDISCIPLINARITY Crossdisciplinary research- group: sociologists, architects, art historians Project management: Helle Juul, arkitekt MAA ph.d. – Juul | Frost Think Tank: Mats Olsson Academic partner: Kristin Feireiss Peter Hanke John Pløger,Urban Sociologist, RUC/Center for Urban studies Bert Mulder Projektmedarbejdere: Kristine Samson, Industrial Ph.D. Rikke Kirstine Larsen, Architect Pawel Antoni Lange, kommunikation Juul | Frost arkitekter JUUL FROST BYENS RUM 2008
- 6. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Role of public space 1.Public space accepts diversity as a norm 2. Public spaces act as cultural and social transformers of society in relation to culture, life forming and as attractors for mix of segments of people. 3. Public spaces should be inclusive everyone. They should function as urban hubs that physically and mentally connect different parts of the city and its inhabitants. JUUL FROST BYENS RUM 2008
- 7. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Crossdisciplinary approach Planning Architecture A holistic understanding of the relations and interactions between the architectural environment and the sociospatial 8ield. EXCHANGE PLATFORM The urban space as an exchange platform between various perspectives Cultural theory and aesthetics Sociology /ethnology BYENS RUM 2008 JUUL FROST Architects
- 8. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Analytical approach The city Spaces Life forming The body How the city, its spaces, life forming and the body interact in urban space Juul I Frost Architects Byens rum
- 9. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Theoretical approach We use thoughts from urban theorists pointing to the relation between the city, its spaces, life forming and the body. The idea that an aesthetical and sensory oriented approach is called for due to the new demands in the experience city. JUUL FROST JUUL FROST Architects BYENS RUM 2009
- 10. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE CASES DUBLIN GRAND CANAL PLAZA JUUL FROST Architects
- 11. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES : DUBLIN GRAND CANAL PLAZA JUUL FROST Architects
- 12. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE DUBLIN GRAND CANAL PLAZA Performativity e square attracts flows from a distance. High degree of material, spatial and sensory gestures both attracting, distributing and orienting the user. The plaza allows movement across the space in any possible direction as it is accessible from various angles. JUUL FROST Architects
- 13. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE DUBLIN GRAND CANAL PLAZA The use of the spatial and bodily affective shaping of the physical environment to attract, distribute and integrate the visitor in the space. The design invites the user to integrate and perform on its stage. JUUL FROST Architects
- 14. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE DUBLIN GRAND CANAL PLAZA A way of framing interaction. Formal structures and sensory gestures are combined to attract and direct the 8lows of the square. A representational space with bodily experienced qualities JUUL FROST Architects
- 15. PUBLIC SPACE AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE DUBLIN GRAND CANAL PLAZA METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Performativity is the inclusion of an action, a performance, an event etc. in urban space, which is intended to in8luence – permanently or temporary a given urban space. In other words performativity is to make something happen in the urban realm. The performative intervention can be the use of physical or social elements or the creation of new identity giving narratives. JUUL | FROST Arkitekter
- 16. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE PROEIXAMPLE, Jardins de la Torre de les Aigües BARCELONA Pool in the summer - recreational parc in an old backyard X ! JUUL FROST Architects !
- 17. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE PROEIXAMPLE, BARCELONA Jardins de la Torre de les Aigües is established by the publicprivate partnership ProEixample. They initiated the regeneration and development of more than 40 backyards in the neighborhood, Eixample. Each backyard has its own functions and aesthetical atmospheres. But all recreational, green semi public urban psaces developed through a parallel initiative. JUUL FROST Architects
- 18. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE PROEIXAMPLE, BARCELONA METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Parallelism is the notion of creating coherence between several places by simultaneously implementing identical interventions in the urban fabric, physically or socially.
- 19. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES STRATEGIES JUUL | FROST Arkitekter JUUL FROST Architects
- 20. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES Performativity is the inclusion of an action, a performance, an event etc. in urban space, which is intended to in8luence – permanently or temporary other agents in urban space. In other words performativity is to affect and change matters in the urban realm. Parallelism is the notion of creating coherence between several places by simultaneously implementing identical interventions in the urban fabric, physically or socially. Area strategies covers chosen, limited districts within the city where a given theme or approach is implemented. The goal is to apply interventions that activate the chosen area as a whole. Mnemonics is a way to create a collective memory by visually referring to given narratives or signi8iers. Acupuncture is an accurate intervention that is capable of both activating a larger area than itself or even in8luence an area different to the one being pierced. JUUL | FROST Arkitekter JUUL FROST Architects
- 21. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES STRATEGIC PLANNING We propose an integrated and holistic understanding of the complex transformation proceses in the city. Through strategic tools initiating urban processes, A new role for the planner: a strategic and proactive coordinator of urban processes The use of urban architecture and design as strategic planning not as material development. Thus planning is no longer a form imposed upon urban matter, but is rather strategic tool to be used in the broader perspective of urban transformation processes. JUUL | FROST Arkitekter
- 22. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES 1 BYENS RUM 2 Publication autumn 2009 BYENS RUM JUUL | FROST Arkitekter
- 23. PUBLIC SPACE AS CATALYST FOR CHANGE METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR URBAN QUALITIES THANK YOU! www.byensrum.dk JUUL | FROST Arkitekter