by Chiara De Angelis | Giu 8, 2018
Credits: picture from http://www.bjala.org
| Country |
South Africa |
| City |
Johannesburg |
| Name |
Bjala organization |
| Date |
2011 |
| Description of the project |
Bjala is a multi disciplinary organisation concerned with human settlement challenges, pioneering innovations in urban solutions focused at low income earners, tackling inequality, catalysing job creation and education opportunities.” As part of its action, Bjala has contributed to raise money and build an education ecosystem in the Jeppe neighborhood in central Johannesburg. Their pilot education project is called streetlight school and it is an affordable primary school.
Moreover, following the community demand for the regeneration of Jeppe’s Square Park, Bjala worked with the Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo and the Johannesburg Development Agency to upgrade the park in 2017, involving the community in the redesign. |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Moderate |
| Pooling |
Strong |
| Experimentalism |
Strong |
| Tech Justice |
Moderate |
| Project Website |
http://www.bjala.org/ |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Website : http://www.bjala.org/
Contact : info@bjala.co.za |
johannesburg
by Sofia Mazzuco | Giu 8, 2018
Image source: http://www.street-plans.com/research-writing/
| Country |
United States |
| City |
Miami |
| Name |
Tactical Urbanism |
| Date |
2009 |
| Description of the project |
Tactical Urbanism started in 2009, incorporating its processes to the methodology of Street Plans, an architecture and urbanism firm founded by Tony Garcia and Mike Lydon, and now with offices in Miami, NYC, and San Francisco.
“Tactical Urbanism is an approach to neighborhood building that uses short-term, low cost and scalable interventions and policies to catalyze long term change.” (http://tacticalurbanismguide.com/- p.11) It is not necessarily something new but Street Plans named it by absorbing more traditional ways of collective city making, in a time when people were less involved in urban development, and thus empowering them to take ownership of public spaces. Projects can be as varied as plazas, parklets, pilot streets upgrades, traffic improvement interventions, etc.
Today, TU is widespread around different parts of the world, with more people becoming aware of the idea of empowerment through collective city making processes. TU did not start with governmental support but through a group of citizens advocating for better urban conditions. |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Moderate |
| Pooling |
Moderate |
| Experimentalism |
Moderate |
| Tech Justice |
Moderate |
| Project Website |
www.streetplans.org |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Other links :
http://tacticalurbanismguide.com/
http://www.street-plans.com/tactical-urbanism-projects/
https://issuu.com/streetplanscollaborative/docs/tactical_urbanism_vol.1
https://issuu.com/streetplanscollaborative/docs/tactical_urbanism_vol_2_final
and interview.
Contact form : https://street-plans.com/contact/ |
Miami, Florida
by Sofia Mazzuco | Giu 8, 2018
Image and logo source : https://loughboroughjunction.org/
| Country |
United Kingdom |
| City |
London |
| Name |
Loughborough Junction Works |
| Date |
2016 |
| Description |
“LJ Works is testing strategies for how citizens can claim stewardship of public land in the city and aims to pilot the potential for community economic self reliance and common governance in an urban neighborhood.” (Source: https://www.publicworksgroup.net/projects/lj-works-1663)
The project aims to accelerate social entrepreneurship, by the reactivation of a previously underused site in Loughborough Junction, South London. “Supported by the Mayor’s London Regeneration Fund, we’re building a new campus-style enterprise hub, offering a variety of affordable workspaces, including a food business incubator, studios, creative workspaces, co-working offices and individual and shared workshops, as well as a programme of on-site business support and training activities.” (Source: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/housing/regeneration/loughborough-junction-masterplan/lj-works) |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Weak |
| Pooling |
Strong |
| Experimentalism |
Strong |
| Tech Justice |
Moderate |
| Website |
https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/housing/regeneration/loughborough-junction-masterplan/lj-works |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Source : Questionnaire, webpages
https://www.publicworksgroup.net/projects/lj-works-1663
https://www.architecture00.net/00projects/lj-works
https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/housing/regeneration/loughborough-junction-masterplan/lj-works
https://loughboroughjunction.org/
Contact : LJ Action group ljactiongroup@gmail.com, policy making tom@publicworksgroup.net and the architecture studio info@architecture00.net |
Loughborough Junction, London
by Sofia Mazzuco | Giu 8, 2018
Image and logo source: https://sampape.org/
| Country |
Brazil |
| City |
São Paulo |
| Name |
SampaPé ! |
| Date |
2012 |
| Description of the project |
“ Sampapé! was founded in July 2012 by 4 young people who believe that stimulating walkability in the city of São Paulo was the best way to improve the relationship between people and to create a better city.
Since then, Sampapé! has been focused on means to make the city of São Paulo more fun, lighter and more humanized, through projects that enhance the experience of walking. These vary from cultural walks to mapping of sitting areas, radio programs and social mobility. Walking is thus taken as a means and an end. “
(Source: http://leticialedasabino.wixsite.com/sampapeorg/sobre-nos) |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Weak |
| Enabling State |
Moderate |
| Pooling |
Moderate |
| Experimentalism |
Moderate |
| Tech Justice |
Weak |
| Project Website |
www.sampape.org |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
http://www.mobilize.org.br/blogs/sampa-pe/
https://www.facebook.com/sampape.sp
Contact : contato@sampape.org |
São Paulo, Brazil
by Sofia Mazzuco | Giu 8, 2018
© raumlabor Berlin
| Country |
Italy |
| City |
Turin |
| Name |
Cantiere Barca |
| Date |
2011 |
| Description |
In a housing estate in the outskirts of Torino the
lack of community cohesion and anti-social behavior coincided with underused public spaces around a housing estate. Anthropologists and designers gathered to propose
a carpentry workshop on an underused building as the cornerstone for a wider social-spatial regeneration. The project was supported by the City of Turin, and included the participation of different young people right after Turin was voted European Youth Capital in 2010.The regeneration process started through the establishment of a carpentry workshop in the area of Barca neighborhood aimed at a learning-by-doing process. As the community learned new carpentry skills and built social capital, a meaningful process of collective regeneration started to take place. Hands- on making of wooden elements (such as sports structures, a theatre stage, children’s playground, hanging gardens) aimed at supporting social life brought new meaning to the neighborhood and its residents, setting.“The products of “Cantiere Barca” became more and more spectacular, to such an extent that pieces which was meant to be temporary installations were catalogued as “public art” by the Turin City Council. This nourished hopes that the workshop would end up being a longer-term project, thus obliging those involved to think about consolidating and maintaining their constructions and organising their activities with a view to a more permanent programme.The Berlin-based group of architects handed over leadership of the programme to a group of local residents. The carpentry workshop had become a place where local people worked together with students and young professionals collaborating in the fields of architecture and design. The former butcher’s shop is now a community facility managed by a group of women from the neighbourhood.“ (http://www.publicspace.org/en/works/h109-cantiere-barca)Initially, the local Council was paying electricity, water and heating bills, but when the Turin became less able to support the project due to economic issue, Cantiere Barca structure was dismantled. Still, what was conquered on the social level will never be lost. |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Moderate |
| Pooling |
Moderate |
| Experimentalism |
Moderate |
| Tech Justice |
Weak |
| Website |
http://progettobarca.blogspot.co.uk/ |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Source : Questionnaire,
http://raumlabor.net/cantiere-barca/
http://www.publicspace.org/en/works/h109-cantiere-barca
https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2013/09/17/cantiere_barca_4.html
Contact : progettobarca.to@gmail.com |
Circonscrizione 6, Turin
