Workshop 7

TACTICAL URBANISM/TACTICAL ART

BostonAPP/Lab Notes from November 26, 2013

By way of admission: The following notes are admittedly sketchy (in all senses of the word...), but will, I hope, provide at least some hooks onto which others can hang their own recollections as well as follow-up thoughts. The discussion was provocative in the best sense, and we’ll definitely be continuing with a results-focused workshop “2.0” early in 2014.

Above all, don’t hesitate to add, subtract, counter, or otherwise flesh out these bare bones.

Thanks.

 

Ron

• “Canvass” used in many ways:

  • Rachel: Canvassing the city

  • Dan: Public space as a series of canvasses

• Dan: Mind/imagination as the prime tool with which to “tackle” these canvasses

• BMW Guggenheim Lab (http://www.guggenheim.org/guggenheim)

  • 100 Trends in major cities, from 3-D printer to social design to urban salons

  • Identifies design that excludes: for example, infrastructure that doesn’t enable people to hang around

• Boston Innovation fund ($1million), under Urban Mechanics

• Gary: Thinking about Boston as a space

• Celebrity Series 75 Pianos Project: more about relationships than about process

  • Take-aways:

    • Time-sensitive: beginning, middle, end

    • Helped create community – among those doing it, and those benefitting from it

• Eric: How can collaboration manifest itself? What can we do collectively?

• Gary: performing arts organizations in silos (!!); end result of whatever an organization does has to be about results, not about the organization

• Renata: combine community actions with physical activity

• Dan: how can CS leverage what it achieved with 75 pianos? Two-sentence permit: can that be transferred/is it replicable

• Centralized depot...use searchable database [Ron: the Lab as that depot, potentially?]

• Aaron: Tactical urbanism needs tactical outreach (cf. Gary’s comment re relationships)