[P2P-F] openbuildings.com + digital dialogue about the practice of tactical urbanism and socially active design

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:59 PM
Subject: [P2P-URBANISM WA] openbuildings.com + digital dialogue about the
practice of tactical urbanism and socially active design
To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas at googlegroups.com, econowmix at googlegroups.com


http://openbuildings.com/

apparently set up by Adel Zakout ? ( perhaps he is on this list ? )

http://openbuildings.com/users/1424

perhaps other people at p2p urbanism know him and/or use the openbuildings
platform ?

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perhaps it has been mentioned earlier ?
perhaps it is taken for granted ?

I m not sure - just passed on it and thought about p2p urbanism list :)


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+ other post on the site I find of interest via that site :

*A digital dialogue about the practice of tactical urbanism and socially
active design.* —
city-sessions.tumblr.com<http://archinect.com/navigate/18006432/http%253A%252F%252Fcity-sessions.tumblr.com%252F>

http://archinect.com/navigate/18006432/http%253A%252F%252Fcity-sessions.tumblr.com%252F

1. PUBLIC

In a city, where myriad interests are often in competition at any given
spot, “public engagement” is a slippery term that raises the important and
oft-ignored question: Which public? Before the evaluation of urban tactics
can begin, one must define the group or groups of people they are working to
engage. As architects and designers develop tactics to address specific
sites and conditions, how are they deciding which groups to orient their
projects toward? Beyond that, how can various factors—demographics,
geography, politics, et al.—change the way that different publics view and
engage with different tactics?

 2. EVALUATION

In recent years tactical urbanism has moved from the fringe of architectural
and urban design practice to the center. However, because these works often
skirt the edges of activist art and nonprofit community organizing it is
difficult to determine a project’s success in relationship to design,
outreach, and influence over policy. As tactical practices shift to the
mainstream, how do we evaluate and critique this diverse range of
architectural actions and urban interventions? What belongs on a
post-occupancy punchlist for best tactical practices?

 3. TACTICS AND THE DESIGN PROFESSIONS

As global political and social changes pressure how designers work, many
practices are using their design skills to tactically confront
environmental, political, and economic issues at all scales. Some of these
tactical practices break with traditional disciplinary boundaries and expand
the role of the designer.

How is practice changing to tactically address environmental, social, and
political issues in the built environment? What further changes are
necessary to tackle these large problems with ever-decreasing funding? What
steps should the profession take to address these contemporary pressures?

 4. FAILURE

Where does the notion of failure come from and why is it rearing its head
again now? While failure might work in software and startups, what happens
when we apply that ethic to interventions at the scale of buildings and
cities? How can the fail-early-fail-often tactic be used for urban
change—such as hackathons, or pilot programs like San Francisco’s parklets?
Is failure related to the temporary or the long term?

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