[il giro di alice]

alice spaccia. spaccia nelle città, per le città, sulle città. spaccia interventi, azioni, progetti tra arte, architettura, urbanismo e sociologia, che in modi diversi riqualificano i nostri spazi. spaccia per diffondere l'idea che con la partecipazione attiva la città può cambiare. architecture || art || food || green || mobility || playground || urban action || urban furniture || community || service || book || competition || exhibition || festival || player ||

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[il giro di alice] ha compiuto 3 anni oggi!

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Make_Shift City. Renegotiating the Urban Commons starts on the premise that public spaces are part of urban commons, today more than yesterday, as recent history has told us. With this consideration, the book presents a collection of the most mesmerizing design projects reshaping cities’ topography by means of art, imagination, civic participation and low resources.

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Picket Fence Furniture by Allan Wexler, 1985

the fence lose the role  as a boundary to be  transformed into an inhabitable borderline  that no longer separates,  but can be shared from both  sides.

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The Urban Living Room / Eddy Kaiser

‘The Urban Living Room’ is a living room in public space made by Eddy Kaiser that aims to people a homely experience in public spaces. Completly paintes in blue (FYI: RAL 5015), this itinerant space expose in Schouwburgplein, Istambul o Hong Kong, allows to citizens a placefor meeting, talking or enjoyment.

   ’The Urban Living Room’ es un salón al aire libre realizado por Eddy Kaiser que da a las personas que pasan por un experiencia mas hogareña del espacio publico. Pintado completamente en azul (FYI: RAL 5015), este espacio itinerante expuesto en Schouwburgplein, Estambul y Hong Kong, permite un lugar para el encuentro, la conversación o el disfrute .

Título de Postgrado en Instalaciones Efímeras

Mas información en: www.instalacionesefimeras.com

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City in Sky / Mu Wei + Sam Cho + Yu Hui

  'City Sky' in an experimental project done in a weekend workshop by 36 children and their parents, all of them directed by  Mu Wei, Sam Cho y Yu Hui architects and organized by Natur Organic Life. Made with alive bamboo and wood, this small city is done for and by children is an empowerment exercises for them, because they have been the architects, builders and inhabitants of this city.

  ‘City Sky’ es un proyecto experimental realizado en un taller de fin de semana por 36 niños y sus padres, dirigidos por los arquitectos Mu Wei, Sam Cho y Yu Hui, y organizado por Natur Organic Life. Realizado en bambú vivo y madera, esta pequeña ciudad hecha por y para la niños es un ejercicio de empoderamiento para ellos, siendo ellos los arquitectos, constructores y habitantes.

Título de Postgrado en Instalaciones Efímeras

Mas información en: www.instalacionesefimeras.com

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Invited by Rhizomatic, a project space for artistic research occurring in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), FOUNDation has demonstrated once more the creative skills in reusing materials, turning a batch of wood sauna into flexible street furniture for the neighbourhood.

Photos by Hein Lagerweij _ All rights reserved.

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The little free library | Nolita, NYC | Stereotank

The Architectural League of New York has partnered with pen world voices festival to bring the little free library by Stereotank to downtown.

  Ten designers were chosen to create one Little Free Library each in Downtown Manhattan. Stereotank was selected to design a Little Free Library at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral School in Nolita. 

The design consisted in creating an 'inhabitable' Little Free Library, where users could immerse themselves and take the time to browse through books and borrow or exchange them. The structure is built out of an upside down plastic tank and a wooden frame. 

Perforations around the tank allow visitors to peek inside and preview the interior, which invites them to duck under and discover the book collection while still having a connection with the exterior. The installation is planned to be active until September 2013.

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OPEN CITY, RAUMLABOR KOREA

This collective created this installation upon invitation to the third annual Anyang Public Art Project. The brief called for the design of a structure in constant evolution, a merger of international and local artists and citizens whose collective research would shape the compilation of micro-buildings to start a dialogue about the issues surrounding the community in light of the rapid urban developments constantly changing its character. The result is a three-dimensional metal frame of platforms that support copies of the archetypal house, each with its own specific function and collectively begin to define a working city of a smaller scale.

Este colectivo ha sido el encargado de desarrollar por invitación esta instalación para el Anyang Public Art Project. Las bases establecían que se tenía que construir una estructura que pudiera estar en constante evolución. Combinando los esfuerzos de artistas locales e internacionales y ciudadanos se generó un sistema de pequeñas viviendas como reflexión sobre el rápido crecimiento urbano de la zona y el constante cambio de carácter. El resultado es una estructura metálica tridimensional que sujeta una serie de unidades que reproducen un módulo de casa arquetípica, cada una con su propia función y que colectivamente generan una ciudad para trabajar a una escala menor a lo habitual.

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Softwalks by Howard Chambers and Bland Hoke. In a city that is known as the premiere walking city, isn't it ironic that there is no place to SIT? The Softwalks seat is designed to attach to sidewalk sheds using a standard scaffold clamp. When not in use, it can be easily folded up and locked.

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Microplanning by Marcos L. Rosa is a compilation of common spaces organized and designed by non-architects in the city of São Paulo (Brazil) in some of the most needy neighborhoods. The book illustrate the citizen’s ability to change and improve their environments with little resources, transforming themselves problems and urban challenges into opportunities for collective life at the local scale.

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SixtyNine Seventy has just launched The Spaces Between: An Urban Ideas Competition, inviting design teams from around the world to re-imagine the in-between spaces of  Salt Lake City’s downtown, developing them into the connective tissue linking the area’s cultural amenities. Registration deadline: 23 March.

To learn more: here.

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Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends. By Salto

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EMMA, by the german architecture team Raumlabor, is a mobile table that grows and adaptes as needed. it is a series of 7 tables built from old pallets, bamboo sticks and empty cable rolls that traveled through Geneve like a train being a structure for dinners, cinema, building an imaginary city with children, round table and performance. Now, for two years  EMMA will travel through the Mariannenquarter in Berlin-Kreuzberg and host several events in the courtyards of the neighbourhood.

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Garden Bridges by Christine Guèrard and Almuth Bennet. Parkdesign2012. The project aims to bridge the stairs with its immediate surrounding, confronting and activating also these spaces. As a set of instruments for access, stay and observation, a number of scaffolding structures extend the functionality of the staircase. The scaffolding interventions (re)bridge the staircases on both sides of the canal. The dimensions of the interventions vary and adapt to the situation: the largest structure leads into the ruderal field behind the stairs next to Metro station Delacroix, creating the possibility of a lofty walk on a thin scaffolding platform. A ladder-like structure leading to the staircase‘s raised planting bed at Quai Fernan.

Desmets is possibly more a suggestion of access, than an opportunity to be taken by every visitor. A scaffolding balcony at the Southeastern stairs marks the garden interventions in a long vista from Rue Ropsy Chaudron, sharpening the view for the cohesive context of the sites around the bridge.

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Taking inspiration from the 1950’s Human Roulette at Coney Island, Amy Franceschini and Dan Allende from Futurefarmers have created a temporary public sculpture for Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism\Architecture. It’s The People’s Roulette, an over-sized wooden structure conceived for children and curious adults, that have fun while it rotates faster and faster.

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Centipede Cinema The only way to watch a film at this unconventional cinema in Guimarães, Portugal, is by manoeuvring your upper body into one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles. The project was conceived by Bartlett School of Architecture professor Colin Fournier, who teamed up with Polish artist Marysia Lewandowska and London studio NEON to build it .Open this week, the structure is named the Centipede Cinema because the protruding lower bodies of viewers give it a similar form to one of the many-legged creepy crawlies. Viewers that have ducked inside the cinema can rest their arms on the base of the structure while enjoying a one-hour film made of of three-minute-long trailers. he project was constructed to coincide with the city’s designation as the 2012 European Capital of Culture and was inspired by a controversial local cinema club that started up during the authoritarian political regime of Estado Novo in the 1950s. “The CineClube is one of the few groups that were able to offer a radical political critique of society and they survive to this day as a left-wing cultural club, said Fournier. “We wanted to create something that celebrated such an important contribution.”

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Built in 2011 in London, Ridleys: Temporary Restaurant by Atelier ChanChan turned a void inside a market into a new food experience. Meals with “zero food miles’” were prepared at ground-floor level, cooking the market produce and then were raised by a mechanical table up to the guests on the first floor.