Urban_dream_scape
Partners: Linnalabor (Estonia), studioBASAR (RO)
Project coordinator & logistics: Andreea Lipan
Community event coordinator: Miruna Tîrcă
Tutors for the building workshop: Alex Axinte, Maria Daria Oancea (studioBASAR)
Intercultural evening organizer: Silviu Marcu
Team leaders and logistics: Roxana Maria Popescu, Violeta Nanu
Team leader Estonia: Gen Madre
Participants: Siiri Treufeld, Epp Vahtramae, Gen Madre, Ave Kongo, Anu Kagu, Jaana Ahlberg, Kadri Mets, Liis Vahter, Martin Maikalo, Eliisa Moistlik, Andrei Drâmbă, Alexandru Păun, Mihai Timcea, Cătălina Lipan, Marian Călin, Amelia Pârvu, Ecaterina Lorenț, Alexandru Dinulescu, Adrian Iancu, Alina Farcaș, Măriuca Tocae, Gențiana Albotă, Anca Ștefănescu, Oana Necșulescu
Sponsors: Policolor, Vadova SRL, Mobexpert, CSC Expert
Location: Building Workshop - Casa de pe Chei, Community Event - Carol Park, Bucharest
Period: 28 April - 5 Mai 2014
Urban_dream_scape was a bilateral youth exchange between Romania and Estonia, implemented by Komunitas Association and financially supported by the European Commission trough the Youth in Action Program, Action 1:1 Youth Exchange.
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While Bucharest is in the middle of a public space crisis and each square meter is a good resource to occupy and exploit, parks have become a sort of last refuge for the citizens. In this context the workshop Urban_dream_scape took place on the subject of Carol Park. The participants, Romanian and Estonian students and pupils have tried to answer on a 1:1 scale to the question: What is a Park?
The action started with mapping the area, continued with a woodworking workshop and ended with a community event, installation and inauguration. Trough permanent interventions, nomadic structures and symbolic installations we tested how Carol Park can operate otherwise than as a place for representation, walk and rest and how the administrative effort to manage it should mean more than fencing and beautification.
Thus, we imagined how the myriad of signs could be not just prohibiting thing, but actively support valuable elements, how the access near the water should be encouraged, how guard booths could become ‘houses of the park’ and how the park should have curators rather than ninja guards.
