Art

[az]

I want some of this in my future flat: http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archive...felice-varini/

[VJ]

Cool!

I like the first one best... ("between full and empty"), but the last one is also interesting...



Jörg

[VJ]

Posted before, but along the same lines:

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

Jörg

[KvHagedorn]

Officious soulless pricks.

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/typical.htm

[TnT]

Portland, Oregon has a grassroots project to enhance the sense of community within sections of the city. Part of it is making intersections a gathering area instead of a crossroad for people going different ways.

http://www.cityrepair.org/ir.html

It would be pretty sweet if they had artists like those linked. It would benefit both sides.

[az]

That's a cool project But I think the main thing here is the citizens creating something themselves, so an artist wouldn't really be of much help.

BTW, and please don't take this as arrogance, when I read the paragraph "Streets are usually the only public space we have in our neighborhoods. But most all of them have been designed with a single purpose in mind: moving cars around.", I couldn't think of any german city I know where this would be true.

[TnT]

That's a cool project But I think the main thing here is the citizens creating something themselves, so an artist wouldn't really be of much help.

I was thinking local artists. Portland is a fairly vibrant town even though it is a small US city (<1,000,000 in the city).

BTW, and please don't take this as arrogance, when I read the paragraph "Streets are usually the only public space we have in our neighborhoods. But most all of them have been designed with a single purpose in mind: moving cars around.", I couldn't think of any german city I know where this would be true.

I saw the founder of the project give a talk a couple years ago. Part of his argument was based on the fact that European cities were communities that formed with the city part coming second. Here cities are planned beforehand and grids are laid out to most efficiently move cars around, then they try to stimulate districts within the grid to form something more.

[az]

Yeah, we have a few cities and commuter belts here that are like that, and I wouldn't want to live in them. A city must have grown, like an organism, for it to have any soul. IMHO. Then again, maybe I'm spoiled. Berlin doesn't have all too much going for it nowadays, but at least it's got soul.