Public Space Workshops
The educational process is most often based on exercises of accumulation, testing or experimenting, developed in laboratory-like conditions, away from their study subject. The series of workshops aims to be an informal educational ‘live project’ engaged in the real time of the local urban condition. Alternative means of public space production can be practiced, beyond the answers of the administration, economic agents or the entertainment society. In the framework of each of the workshops we try to examine the methods of public interventions and also to question their long term contribution as tools of making the public space a product of its users. Structured by themes specific to each of the urban contexts, the workshops move quickly from concept to the final project, through actions of mapping, evaluating, organizing, communicating and designing, passing through working with a budget, legal permits and real users, until the final stages of production of the intervention.
Wood Workshop
As a consecutive stage of the paper and ideas workshop, the production stage represents a special time, suspended between the initial projections and their live tests, where ad-hoc design is possible, where the use precedes the esthetics, and where the objects that are self-produced and the working-day time are not abstract notions. This working stage is usually taking place in the intervention area, in direct contact with the rhythm of the urban context.
Final Event
Getting together for an open event for the inauguration of the public space interventions, calls up the organizational skills of the group, the abilities for operating and negotiating the common resources, and represents a way for testing the initial intentions in a real time.
