Hasta La Ideas

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pThough Milan does have several major public spacesmdash; the Piazza del Duomo, Castello Sforzesco, Giardini Pubblici, to name a fewmdash;the streets, in general, are characterized by narrow sidewalks lined with massive doors hiding private interior courtyards. Here, there is minimal emcasual/em public space; people tend to hang out in the road and against buildings. /p

pLorenzo Castellini (above), director of a href=”http://www.esterni.org/ita/home/”Esterni/a, points out that although this “chaos and mess” may be interesting, the city could benefit from a more considered approach to citizens’ relationship with public space. So, for a week’s time in and around Zona Tortona, esterni staged (for a second time) a href=”http://www.publicdesignfestival.org/”The Public Design Festival/a, providing temporary workspaces, mobile benches, public performances, and a series of parking spaces transformed into public zones, called the Duepercinque competition, described below. /p

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pFoundation, a project by Rikkert Paauw, Hein Lagerweij, Anna Brecht and Jet van Zwieten, utilized materials found in Milan’s environs or donated by citizens to build a small bar, serving coffee and drinks. Each day, the team released a small newsletter, with brief interviews from people they met while working and the character and source of materials they incorporated into the installation. The result, just before completion, is shown above; download their newsletters a href=”http://jetvanzwieten.nl/foundation/”here/a./p

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pMegaphone, designed by Cristiano Cremaschini, is simply that. A giant megaphone mounted on a platform, so that anyone may broadcast their opinion into Milan./p

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pemBevetenetutti: Drink of It, All of You/em, by Lorenzo de Bartolomeis, Gabriele Diamanti and Filippo Poli, provided a series of faucets for humans, pooches, and birds atop a small astroturf deck. Yes, they workedmdash;I filled up at least a few times. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_public_design_festival__16444.asp”(more…)/a
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