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Ephemeral Urbanism: Urban Activities and Transformations PublicSpace: Spaces for Everyone

Ephemeral Urbanism: Urban Activities and Transformations PublicSpace: Spaces for Everyone
Ephemeral Urbanism: Urban Activities and Transformations PublicSpace: Spaces for Everyone
Against the backdrop of Barcelona’s past and present, this essay sets out to champion an everyday town planning that takes advantage of the selforganisational capacity of public space—the street. It understands ephemeral urbanism as a tool for learning from the urban context and the human actions that take place within it, as a way of designing that starts from the citizens’ needs (those that have been faced and those that are still to be met), and from the desires that emerge in the use of public space. The term ephemeral urbanisms, an ubiquitous term in recent academic discourses in Barcelona used by authors such as Josep Bohigas, is endorsed as a reversible urban tool for participation in the design of the city.
public space, ephemeral urbanism, participatory design, design activism
36-43
Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven
Cid Moragas, Daniel
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Freddy, Cooper
Cid Moragas, Daniel
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Freddy, Cooper

Cid Moragas, Daniel (2014) Ephemeral Urbanism: Urban Activities and Transformations PublicSpace: Spaces for Everyone. In, Freddy, Cooper (ed.) Creative Adjacencies : New Challenges for Architecture, Design and Urbanism. 1st ed. Ghent. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, pp. 36-43.

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Against the backdrop of Barcelona’s past and present, this essay sets out to champion an everyday town planning that takes advantage of the selforganisational capacity of public space—the street. It understands ephemeral urbanism as a tool for learning from the urban context and the human actions that take place within it, as a way of designing that starts from the citizens’ needs (those that have been faced and those that are still to be met), and from the desires that emerge in the use of public space. The term ephemeral urbanisms, an ubiquitous term in recent academic discourses in Barcelona used by authors such as Josep Bohigas, is endorsed as a reversible urban tool for participation in the design of the city.

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Published date: 2014
Keywords: public space, ephemeral urbanism, participatory design, design activism
Organisations: Graphics, Fine Art & Media

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Local EPrints ID: 408808
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408808
PURE UUID: 8203d151-e414-4339-9356-b59520939b21

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Date deposited: 28 May 2017 04:01
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 19:49

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Editor: Cooper Freddy

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