Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series
Sunday, March 3rd – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
@ MOV (1100 Chestnut St)
This kickoff event focuses on how to hold a design charrette: a fun, engaging, and inclusive workshop in which experts and community members work together to turn their ideas into pictures and plans. If you’ve ever wanted to get people together to work on a new idea for your neighbourhood or your city, then this workshop can give you the tools. With guidance from the Vancouver Design Nerds, we’ll brainstorm how to bring an underutilized public space to life.
Bonus: Sneak peak of spectacular Upcycled Urbanism building block designs created by students of UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
Please register at:
Twitter: #upcycled urbanism
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What is Upcycled Urbanism?
Upcycled Urbanism is a participatory project that invites students, artists, designers, makers, and anyone with a even a smidgen of creativity to reimagine and rebuild parts of Vancouver’s public realm.
Working together, teams of participants will design and build prototypes using modular blocks of expanded polystyrene containing material salvaged from the construction of the Port Mann Bridge.
First, students from the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture created building block prototypes. Then, at a series of workshops in March 2013, teams will brainstorm, sketch, and model how to use these blocks for new public design ideas with the help of design experts from our partner organizations. Everyone is welcome. Finally, teams will come together again to actually build their creations at an outdoor design/build spectacle in July. The wider community will be invited to help, critique, encourage the builders, and occupy their creations. Think of it as a combination workshop/street celebration/public art unveiling!
Materials will then be re-recycled for industrial use.
You can learn more about the initiative
here!
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Upcycled Urbanism is a partnership between Museum of Vancouver (MOV), UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN), Maker Faire Vancouver, and Spacing Magazine, with generous support from Mansonville Plastics.
