Sentences with phrase «of urban public space»

The combination of these disparate origins of design compare normative ideas of urban public space, characterized in the past by resourcefulness and chance, and in the present by over-regulation, safety issues and lack of space.

They threaten to fill every inch of urban public space with hundreds of thousands of plastic bikes.

This month, New Yorkers can see his work at the Van Alen Institute in The Good Life: New Public Spaces For Recreation - an exhibition that explores the reinvention of urban public spaces to meet the needs of 21st century recreation.

Not exact matches

Social movements have promoted the «right to the city» to denounce urban processes that generate injustices, such as gentrification, privatisation of public spaces, forced evictions and the mistreatment of urban refugees.

Amazon's wish list includes an initial 500,000 square feet of space in an urban or suburban area, with access to highways, airports and public transportation, as well as a qualified technology workforce in the area.

Tressa Eaton from Serious Eats says, «Urban fruit - harvesting engages a community, makes community members aware of their own local (and often organic) food resources, provides an opportunity for neighbors to meet over the boughs of fruit trees, and brings up important questions about public space.

The Bankside Urban Forest was intended to resist this over-inscription of public space.

Urbanists have for some time now been drawing attention to the «over-scripting» of public space in modern urban regeneration schemes, so that all conflicts and loose ends are designed out of the development, and people are subtly organised and choreographed into patterns of use and timetables decided by others.

Former NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan's new book Street Fight: A Handbook for an Urban Revolution charts the recent and dramatic transformation of New York's public spaces.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

A new University of Washington study finds that urban crops in Seattle could only feed between 1 and 4 percent of the city's population, even if all viable backyard and public green spaces were converted to growing produce.

«There would be stacks of these outside dense urban public spaces like subway stations and airports,» says Ryan Chin, a design - team leader.

Pink Street is an urban rehabilitation project to enhance the experience of public space at Rua Nova do Carvalho.

The explosive growth of the conservative Christian school movement in the 1970s and 1980s was a response to the events and trends of the turbulent»60s: the consolidation of a secular science curriculum after the Soviet Union raced ahead in space exploration; the rise of the counterculture and the rioting in urban areas; and the Supreme Court decisions that restricted prayer and Bible reading in public schools.

The parking and traffic management sector is an under ‑ researched area, and one which covers a vast range of subjects including: the design and construction of car parks, the effect that parking provision has on traffic congestion and the urban landscape, the effective management of kerb space, and the many media and public concerns that managing on and off street parking raises.

The good news there, said Tim Nicolette, 38, who took over last August as executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, is that there's still space for some 10,000 new charter seats in urban districts.

As places to play and learn and as public spaces where people come together, parks are essential to the health of urban communities.

Soofa, a spinoff of MIT, has joined forces with Visionect to activate public spaces in Boston with the most advanced in urban street furniture: the solar - powered Soofa Sign.

This compact, 8 by 8 feet, cubic is a great example of an urban design that brings the joy of reading to public spaces.

Planning for the integration of canines into our urban and suburban public and private spaces may well have long reaching positive benefits to people living in those areas, even if they are not themselves dog owners.

Field Operations, best known for leading the design and construction of the High Line in New York City, is celebrated for its work transforming urban sites into treasured public spaces.

«Through our Urban Parks Program, the Foundation supports organizations working to serve major cities through strategic design improvements of public green spaces.

Informed by his training as an urban planner and sculptor, Theaster Gates produces works which develop urban spaces through performance art and the critical engagement of the public.

It is part of a worldwide movement to engage a broad public in a conversation about architecture, public space, and the future of urban life.

Ghost Money, a celebrated example of Bradford's map - like mixed - media collage, alludes to both the modernist grid and the urban grid, to the networks of local economies and to networks of public space.

Special thanks to the Barnard College Department of Art History, the College Art Association, the Design Trust for Public Space, More Art, NYU Department of Art History & Urban Design and Architectural Studies, The Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions, Parsons Fine Arts (BFA) Program, and Public Art Fund.

Many of Caycedo's projects are enacted and exist solely in public space as a form of urban intervention.

Dan Fenelon, whose signature «urban tribal» style is instantly recognizable on murals at the Montclair Library, Luna Stage in West Orange, and other public spaces throughout the country, trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Offered each semester, the Social Practice Workshop immerses students in the discourse of socially engaged practices, providing opportunities to work contextually in a variety of public spaces, including urban environments and specific regional communities, as well as online social spaces and institutional structures.

Continuing his research on the recent history of architecture, the industrial sanitization of materials and the intimate, domestic vulnerabilities of inhabitants of particular urban spaces, Burr has created this outdoor public installation comprised of 18 dark steel structures in an intricate spatial arrangement throughout SCAD Museum of Art Ruins.

Madrid Abierto Public Sculpture Competition, Madrid, ES 2005 Go - Between, Magazin4 / Bregenzer Kunstverein, Curated by Dr. Wolfgang Fetz and Peter Lewis, Bregenz, AT 2005 Library, Librarie, Institute of Contemporary Art, Curated by IDEA London, UK 2005 New Economy, Columbia University Art Gallery, Curated by Eric Angles, New York, NY, US 2005 CAC TV, Contemporary Arts Center, Curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, Vilnius, LT 2004 Synesthesia, a Neuroaesthetics Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Curated by Chloe Vaitsou, London, UK 2004 Everything is Connected, He, He, He, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Curated by Gunnar Kvaran, Oslo, NO 2004 Silent: A State of Being, Madrid Abierto Public Sculpture Competition, Curated by Jorge Diaz, Madrid, ES 2003 Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Curated by Christine Kim, New York, NY, US 2003 Fröhliche Wissenschaft, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Curated by Wilfried Dickoff, Potsdam, DE 2001 Bitstreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, Curated by Larry Rinder, New York, NY, US 2001 Urban Pornography: Project Room, Artists Space, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, New York, NY, US 2001 Optical Verve, Ottawa Art Gallery, Curated by Sylvie Fortin, Ottawa, CA 1997 Making It Real, Aldrich Museum of Art, Curated by Vik Muniz, Ridgefield, Colorado, US.

A huge 32 - by -18-foot LED screen has been positioned on the northern facade of the expansion with the aim to ideally and visually connect BAMPFA with the urban space around, and to create a small public outdoor cinema.

As biennales proliferate, with them comes an increasing willingness to appropriate other kinds of space, with artists being given the opportunity to move back into the kinds of historic spaces once devoted to art — the palazzi and grand houses, the urban squares and public walkways.

A dance exchange developed in response MK's urban setting focuses on young people and their ownership of public space.

Offsite is the Vancouver Art Gallery's outdoor exhibition space in the heart of urban Vancouver that offers a rotating program of innovative public art projects.

the Berlin - based artist collective Club Real aims to explore these questions and some of the city's projects in order to widen the perspective on the possibilities and limitations of participation in art and art interventions in public urban spaces, using the concept of «disturbances of every day life» and presentations as a form of intervention.

In a city that is becoming more and more dense and utilized, the Berlin - based artist collective Club Real aims to explore the above questions and some of the city's projects in order to widen the perspective on the possibilities and limitations of participation in art and art interventions in public urban spaces, using the concept of «disturbances of every day life» and presentations as a form of intervention.

Like much of Gaillard's work, the film is a meditation on the ways in which traumatic events of recent history can be read in — or have been memorialised by — urban or «natural» landscapes, architecture and public space.

Organized by Kultura Medialna and curated by Maria Veits for their annual Construction Arts Festival, the exhibition draws on the current political and cultural concerns of Dnepr, the largest city in proximity to the occupied Ukrainian territories and Crimean annexation and addresses disputable territories, belonging and ownership of the public space and its reshaping by various social groups, urban planning and attempts to create a dialogue in and about public spaces between communities, governments and activists.»

The results of this contested partnership between public expressions like graffiti and their subsequent redaction allude to the deep history of negotiating urban space.

Over a period of three months, Dylan Gauthier produced a series of public boat trips through urban space on neighboring Newtown Creek.

Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.

EVENTO 2009 takes place throughout the urban public space of the city of Bordeaux.

She is the co-founder of a non-profit public art project that looks to bring socially engaged art into abandoned urban spaces called Project For Empty Space.

Lord's interest in architecture and urban public space has led to the production of a series of works in video that document and explore issues that engae with urban geography and planning.

His performative public sculptures and urban choreographies, have been shown in many public spaces and galleries including Eastern Illinois University, Arizona State University, A+D Gallery at Columbia College, and in solo exhibitions and projects at Arrowhead Gallery at Waubonsee Community College, Chicago Artists Coalition, and the Chicago Department of Special Events & Cultural Affairs (DCASE).

He explains: «Seemingly dropped out of nowhere, they are reshaping urban space by filling in the borders between domestic and public experience.

Site95 curated projects include: the «Dead in August» series in New York, «P2V: P. Scott Cunningham and Antoine Lefebvre» at Dimensions Variable, Miami, «Trombly Rodriguez: The Fabric of a Space» at the Abrons Arts Center, New York, «Urban Interactions» at the Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, and outdoor public commissions in Miami, Florida with Patrick McDonough and Sam Trioli.

«Daydreamers», Motel7's second solo show, affirms the ease with which she straddles the divide between urban and gallery spaces - where the traditional process of work progressing from gallery environment to museum or public commission, is reversed.

Using the mechanics of rehearsal and re-enactment in urban environments, Alÿs comments on the politics of public space with both solitary actions and large - scale collaborations, where the culmination of many small acts achieves mythic proportions.