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
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“Canvass” used in many ways:
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Rachel: Canvassing the city
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Dan: Public space as a series of canvasses
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Dan: Mind/imagination as the prime tool with which to “tackle” these canvasses
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BMW Guggenheim Lab (http://www.guggenheim.org/guggenheim)
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100 Trends in major cities, from 3-D printer to social design to urban salons
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Identifies design that excludes: for example, infrastructure that doesn’t enable people to hang around
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Boston Innovation fund ($1million), under Urban Mechanics
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Gary: Thinking about Boston as a space
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Celebrity Series 75 Pianos Project: more about relationships than about process
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Take-aways:
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Time-sensitive: beginning, middle, end
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Helped create community – among those doing it, and those benefitting from it
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Eric: How can collaboration manifest itself? What can we do collectively?
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Gary: performing arts organizations in silos (!!); end result of whatever an organization does has to be about results, not about the organization
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Renata: combine community actions with physical activity
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Dan: how can CS leverage what it achieved with 75 pianos? Two-sentence permit: can that be transferred/is it replicable
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Centralized depot...use searchable database [Ron: the Lab as that depot, potentially?]
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Aaron: Tactical urbanism needs tactical outreach (cf. Gary’s comment re relationships)