The urban lounge and a green view

[The urban lounge and a green view] is a collaborative event promoted by City Space Architecture together with bAQ, a young group created in Florence by several students from the Faculty of Architecture, with the purpose of acting from the inside heart of the city, exploiting hidden places and establishing an everyday interaction with urban residents and users.
[The urban lounge and a green view] event has been organized for “Arte Fiera. International fair of Modern and Contemporary Art” as a part of the Art City White Night and will take place on January 25, 2014. It has been inspired by the worldwide famous "Parking Day", intended to transform certain parking spots into places of social interaction, highlighting the potential associated to their transformation.

[The urban lounge and a green view] event will therefore take place within the footprint of 2.5 by 10 meters of two parking spots, in Via Santo Stefano 7, in the urban core of the city of Bologna, close to the Leaning Towers, from 6:00 pm to midnight. The parking spots will be transformed for a few hours in a domestic living room and its garden.

With this provocation City Space Architecture and bAQ intend to open a discussion about public space, on the amount of green that we have smothered under the asphalt and concrete, mostly dedicated to vehicular mobility, and especially on the potential contained in the spaces that surround us, which we live and go through on a daily basis, to become places of social urbanity. The concept of public space must nowadays necessarily be updated, and emancipated by the European mental attitude that immediately  associates it to the idea of a designed square.
[The urban lounge and a green view] event is open to a public involvement, through an open, constructive and creative debate.

[To download the program of the event, click on the image]

This entry was posted on January 21, 2014 at 5:10 pm.