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Ch02: Do It Yourself Urbanism
Participatory Platforms in Bottom-Up Urbanism
Professor: Nashid Nabian
Jeanette Lin_lin.je@husky.neu.edu
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Who: The West OaklandGreeningProject and Steve Rasmuseen
Cancian of Shared SpacesLandscape Architecture
What: Sidewalk furniture forwaiting, meeting, lounging,communing
Where: West Oakland and LosAngeles
When: 2002- ongoing
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CASE STUDY 01: OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS
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Background:- Steve Ramussen Cancian ofShared Spaces LandscapeArchitecture worked with residents
in low income neighborhoods, inWest Oakland and Parts of LosAngeles, to create vignettes offurniture installed in public spaces.The furniture are simple woodfixtures that give physical form tothe social life of the street such aswaiting for a bus, meeting outsidea shop, chatting or playing in agame or just lounging.
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Initial:- Initially the furniture used werefound sofas and discarded objects
- The outdoor living rooms wereregularly hauled away by policeand offered permits if activists
would purchase liability insurance
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Outcome:- Later iterations of the furniturewere custom made out of simple
materials to recreated parkbenches, front stoops, and outdoortables
- Local activists won full permittingfo the outdoor living rooms withoutfees or requirements to purchaseinsurance
- This project made an effort tomodify street space for human use
CASE STUDY 01: OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS
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Who: Rebar
What: Seat Yourself
Where:Anywhere
When: first inflated 2008, forthe Experimental Designbiennale
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CASE STUDY 02: PUBLIC ARTBUSHWAFFLE
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Background:- Bushwaffles are a squishy,fluorescent antidote to the hardsurfaces and drab color palette
of furnish urban spaces
- Bushwaffles can be inflatedanywhere by anyone whichallows people to form their ownpublic spaces.
- The portable and temporarystructures relieves the burdenof street furnishings to bedestroyed by weather,vandalism and skaters.
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CASE STUDY 02: PUBLIC ARTBUSHWAFFLE
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CASE STUDY 02: PUBLIC ARTBUSHWAFFLE
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Who: Commonstudio
What:A quick and inexpensiveway to beautify the city
Where:All over the city
When: Right now
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CASE STUDY 03: GREEN AID SEED BOMB
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Seed:Mixture of clay, compost and seeds
Background:Borderline subversive strategy fortransforming the many dead spaces thatare encountered everyday in the city,from sidewalk cracks to vacant lots toparking medians.
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Usage:- The greenaid dispenser simplifies theseguerilla gardening efforts byappropriating the accessible and familiarquarter operated gumball machine.
- The bombs can lay dormant for up to ayear, but with a little water and sun, thewill sprout in a few days.
- Common Studio also provides a seriesof interactive maps that allowsparticipants to geotag, photograph andshare their seedbomb sites with a largercommunity.
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Who: Slow Food Nation,Rebar, Garden forEnviornment, CMG LandscapeArchitecture, Seeds for
Change, City Slicker Farms,Ploughshares Nursery,Coevolution Institute
What: Food Garden and SocialSpace
Where: Civic Centers
When: 2008 with SanFrancisco Recreation andParks Department, MayorsOffice
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CASE STUDY 04: CIVIC CENTER VICTORY GARDEN
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Background:Both a practical initiative togenerate food and asymbolic gesture for urbanagriculture, the VictoryGarden grew out of the
conjoined efforts of multipleorganizations dedicated tourban farming in the BayArea.
Planted with a variety of
organic vegetables suited tothe local climate, the gardenproduced up to 100 poundsof produce every weekalldonated to the SanFrancisco Food Bank in aneffort to provide healthy food
for those with limited accessto it.
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CASE STUDY 04: CIVIC CENTER VICTORY GARDEN
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Background:Physically the garden wasconfigured with room forsocial interaction, to nurtureits human occupants as well
as plant life.
Though intended as atemporary project, theVictory Garden's supportfrom the City, various non-
profits and hundreds ofvolunteers served to unifythe local urban agriculturemovement, establish astrong precedent for futureBay Area farming projects,and demonstrate thepotential for success tourban areas nationwide.
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