01. design studio lll

01.01. la florida workshop

tactical urbanism

Tactical urbanism workshop developed in collaboration with collaboration with members of the La Fundició and La Associació de Veïnes i Veïns La Florida.

urban hacking artifacts

Ways of drifting

The evolution of the research throughout the design space has shown that the way of drifting adopted by the researcher has been mainly an accumulative activity. Nevertheless an argument can be made that the evolution of the project resembles a comparative drift. Regardless, an accumulative approach describes appropriately the way the researcher has depended on the initial interests and has carried out every activity to feed his proposal.

A proposal that can be understood by the alternative present proposed in contrast to the actual situation being studied.

Present Continuities

Members of the community lack the appropriate stimulus and public areas to gather for recreational purposes due to precarious infrastructure and deficiencies in green spaces. These deficiencies are barriers for residents to interact with each other and socialize their necessities in a face to face situation. The lack of interaction can also result in conflict between different groups of the community, and misuse of public funding for space intervention in the area.

Alternative Continuities

Members of the community lack the appropriate stimulus and public areas to gather for recreational purposes due to precarious infrastructure and deficiencies in green spaces. Nevertheless, residents understand their agency in the space they inhabit and perform small interventions in public spaces to generate appropriate settings for them to interact and socialize their necessities and propose solutions that are thought by the residents for the residents in an effort to attract public founding and direct it into actually meaningful actions that respond to their reality.

Scalability

The research projects itself as a public funding based business model as it has mainly developed with commoning principles and worked with neighborhood associations in its most prolific stages. The concept of the project advocates for open source development and decentralized network systems in collaboration with grassroots organizations.

The idea of developing projects and public space interventions in conjunction with the horizontal approach to concept generation and proposal, seems to direct the project into a business model that works alongside established associations to materialize ideas.