Why might we not put a bench here?
Why do we not have grass here?
Why is this space all empty?
Who has decided to paint it this colour?
Why is the park missing a normal entrance?
How can a wheelchair bound pass through?
Why do I always feel bad, when crossing the subway?
We
have addressed architects, designers and artists, in fact everybody,
who could be interested in, in order to try "to find and to heal" their
problematic places in our city.
WELCOME TO CITY INTERVENTIONS
Its main idea was to try to find points, places and situations in our
capital, which were considered working incorrectly res. bringing to its
citizens less than they would have to. In many cases it is going on the
places, which have been seemingly subject to a mass resignation and
which have not been found offering a possibility of profit making. We
would like to go far beyond their exploration; we would like to try to
find and to propose some feasible solutions for them. We believe that
small changes could sometimes (relatively often in the city context)
bring a huge effect. Our project is a cross-point of several interests:
city officers, but also citizens, architects and artists, amiable
philosophists as well as top specialists. The project is not about
generation of profits or bombastic promises; it should try to bring
some changes.
Moreover, it is also the way of how to show our inactive city officers
other actions and possibilities at the building of public premises. We
are trying to turn the conventional city orders distribution method
upside down and to help our city and its surroundings without any
demands on reward and without waiting for an appeal. The project
presentation will perhaps help the public opinion of people from
Bratislava and the public perception of slovak architect as human
erecting bad buildings without any moral doubts and changing the city
image for short-term benefits to be reversed. The first round of our
project should result in a book to be used as a certain catalogue, a
gift for the city may be chosen from, but also to be sold to any
interested person; the book should be focused on initiating of
particular actions towards implementation of some ideas or towards
opening of some discussions.
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