Full in Cadiz

We proudly announce that our workshop on public space EMERGing SPACE at EASA011 in Cadiz, Spain was selected and will HAPPEN in four months!

Fell free to check it out!

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Melancholic inventor

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Theo Jansen is Dutch artist, scientist and a dreamer. He uses his imagination to create sophisticated structures which are simmilar to animals. Those organic- looking creatures or beach-animals as Jansen calles them are designed precisely on a computer and construced from wood and pcv tubes. moving Animaris Umerus

Artist's next dream is to create an animal with a brain. Since now they only have stomach consists of recycled plastic bottles containing air that can be pumped up to a high pressure by the wind so that they can move. "The brains are something, which they really need. Right now, I can only leave them alone for 5 minutes and if I want to extend that period they really must learn to think for themselves" said Theo.

an interview with Jansen

Theo Jansen's web site

Wooden disobedience

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Tadashi Kawamata makes wooden parasites, arguing, establishing dialogue with the places they attack. It’s an apparent disorder but poetically beautiful, daring with its temporariness.

dutch PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE

DUS is an architectural office from Amsterdam experimenting with public space. Their materials are casual enough to shock in unconventional contexts. Check out what they make surprising spaces with umbrellas, bags, mirrors, tables and flour:

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Alternative practices awarded

This is a proof that alternative, low budget practices can be noticed, awarded and mentioned next to as famous buildings as Norwegian Opera and Ballet in Oslo.

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The special mention of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010 went to Passage 56 / espace culturel écologique – collectively managed ecological garden organized in an abandoned passageway of rue Saint Blaise as a result of a popular initiative.

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Parasitten of Bureau Detours i Århus was a finalist in 2008. It’s an extra-legal construction of three terraces with panoramic views set into a colonnaded structure of a dockyard in the port.

KontenerART

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KontenerART is a mobile space for artists functioning every summer, each time in a different spot of Poznań. It Was used as a model of a revitalization prototype, gave a different face to the main square, brought the beach to the inner-land city and for sure will surprise with the new ideas next year.

Anywhere it lands, it seems to provoke a “Bilbao effect”, but with much less money, and with the constant involvement of people shaping it all the time.