Designing Ordinary Urban Place
The Atelier proposes a design activity concerning open spaces in contemporary urban contexts, which are seen as privileged places for collective life and functional and comfortable areas. It focuses on the role open space plays in urban regeneration processes, adaptive reuse practices of urban voids, and contrasting environmental risks due to climate change. The design spaces are ordinary places, as areas in-between, around buildings, or in contiguity with them, usually used for collective urban practices - streets, squares, gardens, parks – or which need to change their original functions - dismissed industrial areas, abandoned infrastructural spaces. They become part of a new urban landscape and practice transformation for an adaptive and resilient urban space.