WHO IS THE PUBLIC?
WHAT IS THE PLACE?
HOW CAN ART REFLECT ON BOTH?
OUR WORKSHOPS
BostonAPP/Lab hosts issue-and-action focused open Workshops, informed by the interplay of the art, the public, and the place. The Workshops seek to provide a forum in which to poke and probe for new, robust, and dynamic collaborations that strengthen and sustain arts in Greater Boston’s public places.
To date, the Lab has produced nearly three dozen of these collaborations – “brainstorming hubs” for discussion, for experimentation, for making art – that in turn have attracted nearly 500 participants. In designing and facilitating these workshops, the Lab has engaged, as co-leaders, nearly 60 representatives of arts organizations, city and local agencies, individual artists, designers, schools, and universities. Areas of focus have included technology, urban design, and community-building, among others.
Do you have any ideas for a future workshop?
CULTIVATING COLLABORATION
Implicit in each of the Lab's Workshops is the imperative of getting under the skin of that phrase: Who's the public? Where's the place? How can art reflect (or reflect on) both?
Below is a look at one of our earlier workshops, which provided the impetus for what eventually became the ArtsCommons while seeking to respond to some of these questions.
PAST WORKSHOPS
HONORING IMMIGRANT NARRATIVES THROUGH ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
April 29, 2019
• How can the stories of Greater Boston's multiple immigrant communities be
gathered, shared, built on, and continually added to -- in and across
neighborhoods?
• What kinds of platforms -- digital, physical, verbal – are possible/desirable?
FACILITATING MOVEMENT IN PUBLIC SPACE
January 28, 2019
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What are the inhibitors to such enhancements — whether physical, psychological, or some combination?
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What are some possible enablers?
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What kinds of art...or design...or both can contribute to the creation of new “desire lines” — new opportunities for movement — in these spaces?
FOR CHARLESGATE PARK AND BEYOND...ART+DESIGN FOR ACCESSIBILITY IN PUBLIC SPACES
November 05, 2018
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What role(s) can art – however defined and in whatever medium! – play as an element of inclusive design in public spaces?
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We’ve included the responses by a number of participants to a set of questions posed at the end of the Workshop.
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Check these out – and the notes themselves – for the range of ideas and recommendations generated...and send along your own ideas and responses to info@bostonapp.org!
ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM: FORGING, REFLECTING, INFORMING URBAN IDENTITIES
January 20, 2018
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How does one develop site-specific public art projects which provide opportunities for all- adults and kids, those from various socio-economic backgrounds, to participate?
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How can mural arts projects create a platform for engagement and interaction?
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Discover speaker Pedro Alonzo's presentation here
FROM APPS TO ART IN PUBLIC PLACES: CODING FOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND SPIRITS
May 05, 2016
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How to expand from CfB’s community-drive approach to app- making to something comparable for art-making in public places
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Integrate creative technologies and urban strategies to make cities better for people living in them
DESIGN IN COLLABORATION: RE-IMAGINING PLACES THROUGH ART AND COMMUNITY
May 13, 2015
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Rose Architecture Fellowship at the table
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Collaborative action builds trust/builds of strengthens communities
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Social and community context can/should shape design
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Increase opportunities for people in neighborhoods to be part of what happens around them
MAKING THE ARTSCOMMONS COME ALIVE: HOW? FOR WHOM?
December 10, 2014
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Provide ability for artists/works to respond to viewers’ inputs
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Pop-up shop tactics as model for use/re-use of “armature”
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See Video!
BEYONE THE ONE-SHOT DEAL: ART IN PUBLIC PLACES, NEW DEVELOPMENT, AND THE LONG VIEW
February 25, 2014
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Partnerships with developers: art as ingredient for increasing economic value
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Create culture of saying “yes,” without long planning/permitting process
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Provide accessible tools: allow people to play with them
