[spectre] PARK(ing) Day 2010 // Art and nature in public space | Open call for participation

[Dedale | Stephane Cagnot]

Contact: Julie Manière
E-mail: julie.maniere at dedale.info
Phone: 00 33 (0)1 43 66 09 66
 
Address:
Dedale
23 rue Olivier Métra
75020 Paris
France
 
Info:
September 17th & 18th, 2010
 
 
 
PARK(ing) Day 2010 // Art and nature in public space | Open call for
participation 
 
Paris
Friday | Saturday | September 17th - 18th 
 
Most of big cities’ outdoor urban space is dedicated to private vehicles,
while only a fraction of that land is allocated to open space for people. Is
that the city we want for tomorrow?
 
PARK(ing) Day, a one-day worldwide event organized in more than 140 cities
around the world, invites citizens, artists and activists to temporarily
transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public
parks.
 
Relying on social networks, the event is launched on a large scale in
France, in connection with SmartCity, an international art production and
research programme on the theme of the intelligent city, connected,
sustainable and creative.
 
Why?
 
To imagine creative and playful ways to re appropriate public open space.
 
To question the position of nature and citizens in the city
 
To create alternative sustainable spaces for commitment, new social
interactions, generosity and playfulness.
 
Where?
 
In Paris, in France and in 140 cities around the world, express your
creativity and imagine original parenthesis to concrete spaces, on the 17th
and 18th of September 2010.
Some ideas: a gardening class, a ping-pong competition, an ephemeral art
installation, a free lemonade stand, an open poetry reading, a mini urban
farm, a garden, a playground, a picnic area

 
Sign up on the website www.parkingday.fr and follow the manual!
 
Programme

 
Many art installations and activities are scheduled these days in Paris’
streets. Among the most surprising, you will find a new project by Rebar,
the American collective who created PARK(ing) Day in 2005.
The concept of this project is to create a mobile, public participatory art
piece that inspires urban residents to re-imagine the way that we create and
occupy public space. This original personal public space can be transported
by bicycle, and can become temporary parks whenever needed

 
 
 
Further information: www.parkingday.fr 
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More : www.smartcity.fr | www.smartcityblog.fr | www.dedale.info |
www.parkingday.org
The non-profit organization Dedale is also looking for volunteers, to help
with the implementation of the event PARK(ing) Day in Paris.
Further information here.
 

Rebar Group is an interdisciplinary studio from San Francisco, operating at
the intersection of art, design and activism. Their work encompasses visual
and conceptual public art, landscape design, urban intervention, temporary
performance installation, digital media and print design. Rebar remixes the
ordinary, repurposes the ubiquitous and restructures the fabric of the urban
environment by exposing hidden assumptions and shared meanings embedded in
the everyday experience of the built world.
 
 
 
 
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