Podcast series launch

“A-Just Radio” was developed as a collaboration with the Ten Thirty Collective. (1030c) The collective is an activist group of architecture students, educators, and practitioners. Central ...

Competition and program of the third edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival

On November 24-27, 2022 City Space Architecture organized the third edition of the Film Festival Urban Visions in Bologna. This edition was designed in a hybrid format: all films were available on the...

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of the third edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival offered the opportunity to present the A-Place project to the Italian public and to provide an overview of the main program...

Free online screenings and awards

For the competition “A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities” City Space Architecture received 34 submissions and shortlisted 19 films to be included in the final selection ...

Special events

The third edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival included several in presence activities at City Space Architecture’s headquarters, with the engagement of artists and filmmakers. In regar...

A-Place debate

On November 30, City Space Architecture organized the screening of “La città dentro” by the Zimmerfrei Collective at its headquarters, to present the winner of the first open call p...

Award ceremony

The award ceremony of the second edition of the Urban Visions film festival took place both online and in person. The public ceremony took place at the Cinema Nosadella in Bologna. The juries for e...

Dissemination activities

In 2022 and 2023, City Space Architecture organized several dissemination activities around the Urban Visions Film Festival, with the intention to promote contents collected in the three previous edit...

Signature of a cooperation agreement with the Muncipality of Bologna

In April 2022 City Space Architecture started to discuss with the Municipality of Bologna regarding the possibility to sign a cooperation agreement for the implementation of a biodiversity public gard...

Reactions from the residents

The Municipality of Bologna asked City Space Architecture to inform local residents – by sending an email to building administrators - about the contents of the cooperation agreement and to prov...

Renovation of the green infrastructure

The renovation of the green infrastructure, as outlined in the cooperation pact signed with the Municipality of Bologna, aimed to comprehensively redesign the green space. The municipality requested t...

Art event with Yari Miele on the occasion of the Art City White Night

The Italian artist Yari Miele created a site-specific installation at City Space Architecture headquarters and the biodiversity public garden for the Art City White Night of Arte Fiera. This internati...

Exhibition “Imagining Public Space with/for Her”

Presented within the framework of international initiatives developed by City Space Architecture, the exhibition aimed to trigger a crucial debate about public space analysed from a gender perspective...

Exhibition “European Prize for Urban Public Space”

In May 2023, City Space Architecture strengthened its ongoing cooperation with the CCCB – Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona with the intention of hosting in Bologna the exhibition of t...

Reflections

In the fourth year, City Space Architecture successfully engaged residents, community members of different ages, cultural backgrounds, and interests, alongside researchers, scholars, local and regiona...

Science, technology and documentary perspective

A dialogue of Pau Faus with Victoria Sacco, curator, and project coordinator at LOOP Barcelona, and Pau Subirós, screenwriter, director, and producer around the topics embraced by the video &ld...

Documentary Film, Migration and Queer Subjectivity

A conversation at Casa Elizalde between Camila Flores-Fernández and Victoria Sacco, discussing the integration of queer migrants in Brussels,  the theme of the video “We Are Here&quo...

AGORA at the Afrobanana Festival

The Afrobanana Festival is a vibrant four-day music event attracting throngs of young attendees and boasting a lineup of world-class musicians from across the globe. Urban Gorillas were invited to ins...

AGORA at the Pame Kaimakli Festival

In 2023, the Pame Kaimakli Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary with the theme "Istories allosFos," translated as "Stories through a Different Light." This year's festival ...

Following Kaimakli footsteps

During the festival, a pop-up cinema space was set up in an abandoned shop in the neighborhood to showcase the four Video Interview Stories, a collaborative effort with the informal group People of Cy...

Stories of Women Activism

A video documentary was presented, capturing moments from workshops organized by Urban Gorillas and guided by Natalia Panagiotou, in collaboration with the women of Kaimakli EKYSY, a retirees' org...

Sensing places together

The overarching theme of the third closing event, "Sensing Places Together," will focus on the perception and representation of places through our senses and diverse media.   The ...

Co-constructing lived spaces

 "Co-Constructing Lived Spaces" was organized by Alive Architecture in collaboration with Communa, a local non-profit organization, that activates the location of the event ‘La Se...

A place in Can Trinxet

Closing activities of the A-Place project in L'Hospitalet   The programme (Spanish, Catalan) at Can Trinxet from 3 to 7 June includes debates, exhibitions, installations,...

Exploring the sociophysical territory with audiovisual media

After the visual analysis of the cityscape, students of the course Systems of Representation 21/22 continued to explore the socio-physical territory of the city of L’Hospitalet in the second sem...

ES_CULTURA public art festival

ES_CULTURA is a two-day festival organized by the School of Architecture La Salle in Plaça de la Cultura, in Bellvitge, Hospitalet, with the collaboration of the city council. The festival tran...

Grand Hospice - expo video presentation

During the opening of A Just Expo the students presented a comparative research study on temporary occupations, critically questioning the values, narratives, practices, sites, and pedagogies of Pali ...

A Just Radio

"A Just Radio" is a series of interviews with architects, students, NGOs and activist working around the questions and thematic raised through the ADJ studio.    - Episo...

Collaborative collage workshop

During the first semester of 2021-22, the students of the subject Systems of Representation at the La Salle School of Architecture carried out a photographic study in the city of L'Hospitalet. The...

A-Place: Audience engagement

Meeting between programmers and festival professionals in order to share experiences and challenges around audienc-es- engagement and development: how to increase audiences, strategies to foster loyal...

A-Place: What about production

What are the challenges of producing? what difficulties do we encounter? how can the artists' production process be improved beyond the material dimension? what other means are available to increa...

Reconnecting Place(s) through sound and dance

  The final event of “A Reconnecting Place” in Lisbon was integrated in the program of celebrations of Passa Sabi Association's eight anniversary. It was imagined as a culminat...

Vertical gardens installation in Synergasias Street

On July 8th the neighbours and the visitors of the festival attended the inauguration of the Vertical Gardens installation at Synergasias Street in Kaimakli. The installation, created in the first yea...

Adopt a Plant

In April 2022,  the residents of Kaimakli were invited to adopt 100 plants and trees, which were offered by the Forest Department of Cyprus. Two months later, in July 2022, within the framework o...

ES_CULTURA open call - selected works

A programme of activities in the Plaça de la Cultura in L'Hospitalet taking place on 26 and 27 November 2022, including 10 installations from the proposals submitted to the open call "...

Creative Dance Workshop

  Taking as a starting point the music composed during the activities of music creation in the community, choreographer and dancer Inês Galvão Teles worked with the neighbourhood ...

Soundwalking in Bairro do Rego

Soundwalking is an artistic practice that links the act of listening to an experience of place and space, following a specifically designed path. Through the ECHOES* app, this route will be pre-determ...

(Re)Connecting places through artistic practices

The presentational workshop "(Re)Connecting places through artistic practices" was held as part of the A-Place Project's participation at the New European Bauhaus Festival that took plac...

Creating a soundscape with Bairro do Rego

The presentational workshop "Creating a soundscape with Bairro do Rego" was held as part of the A-Place Project's participation at the New European Bauhaus Festival that took place betwe...

Music creation in the community

Through several sessions in the neighborhood the objectives of (Re)Connecting Place are:   1. Collecting the musical influences of the young participants and their family influences in orde...

Final inauguration (2022)

On Friday 24.06.2022 the final inauguration of the project took place on both sites, on the Pieremans playground and in the alleys of the Cité Hellemans. For that occasion Alive Architecture an...

Permanent Interventions (2022)

Within the framework of A Happy Place activity and the transformation of both sites - the Pieremans playground and the alleys of the Cité Hellemans - Alive Architecture in collaboration with BR...

Temporary Interventions (2022)

Within the framework of A Happy Place activity and the transformation of the alleys of the Cité Hellemans, Alive Architecture in collaboration with BRAVVO organized nine workshops between April...

Our Parklet presented at the GCDN Annual Convening in Lugano 2022

Our parklet has been presented by Luisa Bravo at the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) Annual Convening in Lugano on 29 May - 1 June 2022, co-hosted by LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura. The Global ...

Mapping Places

This installation at Plaza Blocs in Florida in Hospitalet, Barcelona, will be constructed with the texts and photographs submitted to the online competition A-Place MAPPING, which represent and descri...

Placing audiovisual narratives

This is the public presentation of videos carried out by the students of the La Salle School of Architecture in Barcelona, accompanied by two audiovisual creators, Claudio Zulian and Miquel Garc&iacut...

Tadaaam! We are almost done • A Re-Place is like a new place!

In the last steps of the workshop, the participants did their best to fine-tune their design solutions, they made some final touches and prepared everything for the presentation and demonstration. Sin...

Reuse and recycle • Learning by doing!

Now, after all the thinking process, things just need to be done!   Students have tackled the tasks and started moulding the materials. Through such hands-on work, we were all engaged in ac...

Rethinking the design • Planning phase

There are plenty of materials on the site to be reused. But how? Students and mentors, guest and visitors have put their heads together and shared their creative thoughts, pondering the diverse ideas ...

Yay! • Finally, we go ahead with the work on-site!

After sharing our knowledge and experiences in the lecture rooms, tackling the reuse concepts, by also broadening our horizons in sustainable design, now finally (!) we’ve got to the site. Hands...

Guest lecture: 'Renewing Knowledge Production at Floating University Berlin and Haus der Statistik' by Marjetica Potrč

The last guest lecture in A Re-Place cycle before the hands-on weekly workshop on-site was a lecture held by an acknowledged Slovene artist and architect Marjetica Potrč. Her interdisciplinary practic...

Our Parklet presented in the Places for Good podcast from New Zealand

The design idea, implementation and management of City Space Architecture's Parklet in Bologna was discussed by Luisa Bravo during an interview in the podcast Places for Good, promoted and managed...

Guest lecture: 'Three projects' by Tobias Putrih and Aleš Korpič

We continue with the guest lectures in “A Re-Place” workshop and cycle. This time we listened live and also over zoom, to a very interesting lecture held by To bias Putrih and his associat...

Guest lecture: 'Social matter' by Antoine Aubinais

The second in the series of guest lectures of A Re-Place workshop was held by Antoine Aubinais, an architect and co-founder of Bellastock. In the lecture, we got acquainted with some of the first Bell...

Guest lecture: 'Crop' by Pedro Jervell

  The first in the series of guest lectures of A Re-Place workshop was a lecture session titled “Crop” held by Pedro Jervell. We dug into the topic of reuse and search of the avail...

The Llobregat in L'Hospitalet: Creation of an imaginary from ecology, community and culture

On March 24, 2022, on the occasion of the World Water Day,  Sitesize is organising a round table at the Auditorium of the Bellvitge Cultural Centre to discuss ways of convergence of sci...

A-PLACE: Place-making through body moves

Arash Fayez led a conversation about the role of music in forming a sense of belonging to a location, which is the main concern of his work I can only dance to one song. This work portrays accoun...

A-PLACE: Embodying space through memory

Based on the experience with the work "La carpa", artist David Bestué led a conversation in which questions were raised around memory, word-of-mouth and space. How can architecture an...

Video Premieres

On November 9, 2021, LOOP Barcelona presented the premiere of La carpa by David Bestué and Roser Corella at the Mies van der Rohe Pavillion in Barcelona. The exhibition lasted until 2...

A social media campaign to support our Parklet and its meaning

In May 2021, City Space Architecture applied to the Municipality of Bologna in order to extend the duration of the parklet for additional two months, ending on July 31. Local residents and city visito...

What we have learned from our Parklet in Bologna

In 2020 City Space Architecture implemented a parklet in front of its operational headquarters in the Porto-Saragozza neighbourhood, in order to promote community engagement and create cross-disciplin...

Mapping and constructing places

This sequence of activities was carried out between April and November 2021. The aim was to involve pupils from different educational levels in a learning process about the sense of place in public sp...

Signifying the territory: Video

SDR students produced a video on a topic they found relevant in their previous photographic survey: the history of a place, an artistic intervention in the city, how people use a particular public spa...

ASeedlingPlace* Digital Repository

Urban Gorillas have launched, a Digital Planting Repository called ASeedlingPlace*! ASeedlingPlace* inspires to create a digital community of urban visionaries that aim to positively transform thei...

ASeedlingPlace* Initiative in Venice Biennale

The SeedlingPlace* collaborative activity connects the A-Place partnership to the  Urban Gorillas installation in the Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia 2021 . Partners from four ...

Competition and program of the second edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival

Less than seven months after the successful first edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival, held fully online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, City Space Architecture organized the second editi...

Opening Ceremony

Video of the opening ceremony available on Youtube. The opening ceremony was the opportunity to present the A-Place project to the Italian public with the intervention of the project coordinator Le...

Special event / Interview with Zoran Poposki

  The second edition of the Film Festival Urban Visions included several online activities, with the engagement of artists and international scholars. In regard of the theme “A-...

Special event / International online seminar

The second edition of the Film Festival Urban Visions included several online activities, with the engagement of artists and international scholars. In regard of the theme “A-Place/Resilient ...

Special event / exhibition and screenings

The second edition of the Film Festival Urban Visions included several activities, with the engagement of artists and international scholars. In regard of the theme “A-Place/Migrants, refugee...

Award ceremony

The recording of the Award ceremony is available on Youtube.   The award ceremony of the second edition of the Urban Visions film festival took place online, in the same way as the first ed...

The virtual exhibition 'Neighbourhood Through My Lens'

The virtual exhibition "Neighbourhood Through My Lens" includes the works of the participants of the Photography Workshop held within the scope of the activity "My Neighbourhood... My P...

Workshops “My Neighbourhood…. My Place”

As a continuation of collaboration between NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University of Lisbon, the Nova Institute of Philosophy, AMIGLuz Association, and the A-PLACE Project, the...

Mapping the territory: Photographic survey

Third-year students of the subject Systems of Representation (SDR) carried out a photographic survey of the cityscape. The work was carried out in three stages:   1. Photographing L'H. ...

Urban walk in La Florida neighbourhood

On June 22, 2021, we organized an urban walk through the neighbourhood of La Florida. in collaboration with members of the Espai Jove Sidecar, a community initiative to prevent the risk of social...

Venice Biennale

ASeedlingPlace in the Venice Biennale, is inspired by an installation of thea structure Kaimakli Gardens that was fabricated and installed in September 2020 in Kaimakli, Nicosia within the framework o...

Greening the city workshops

In the framework of the Urban Entrepreneurship summer workshop organised by Urban Gorillas and the Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Cyprus University two afternoon workshops were dedicated to develo...

Partial inauguration (2021)

On Wednesday 29.9.2021 an inauguration of the Phase 1 of the project took place on the Pieremans Playground. Under the lead of Chloé Saelens the team finished the first part of the painting on ...

Soiree “My Neighbourhood... my Place”: Poetry and Fado in A Future Place

NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University Lisbon, the Nova Institute of Philosophy, AMIGLuz Association, and the A-PLACE Project announce a Soiree to present the winners of the co...

The Finnish artist Nina Backman visiting our Parklet

On July 21, 2021 the Finnish artist Nina Backman visited our parklet in Bologna and gave a lecture at City Space Architecture's headquarters on her Silence Project. Nina has recenly curated, as...

Exhibition at the Parklet from a local art collective

On May 29-30, 2021 the parklet hosted, in the late afternoon, the temporary art exhibition U R R U N, promoted by the Mezcla collective, a group of young performers from the Porto-Saragozza neighbourh...

Poetry / Prose Poetry Contest “My neighbourhood… my place”

The Poetry and Prose Poetry Contest “My neighbourhood… my place” aims to poetically reflect on the past, present and future of Bairro Padre Cruz and its places, through texts and ot...

Final Event: Urban Entrepreneurship Workshop

The final event took place at the rooftop terrace of the municipal building of Nicosia on July 9 2021. The project Grandyna which resulted out of the Greening the city workshops was presented in th...

5 Co-production workshops (2021)

Within the framework of the transformation of the Pieremans playground, Alive Architecture in collaboration with BRAVVO organized four workshops throughout June 2021 to test the ideas observed during ...

The new world of hyperlocal food, Benjamin Greene

On July 6 2021, Benjamin Greene from Imaginary Farms, gave an online lecture open to the public with the title “The new world of hyperlocal Food”. The lecture was attended by students of t...

Guided Walk

Urban Gorillas and Students of the Summer course: Urban Entrepreneurship - Opportunities in times of uncertainty  took part in two guided visits in relation to Greening strategies in the city and...

Pick your favourite!

The proposals or A-pla(y)ce interventions were now presented by students to the local community representatives and exhibited in the neighbourhood community place. The event was followed by a lively d...

Students' proposals • discussions

In the last segment of the workshop course students collected and synthesised all the knowledge and information gained in previous sessions – from theoretical knowledge and references to actual ...

Guest lecture and consultations: Playscapes • Creativity and Safety

The workshop process has now gradually reached the design phase. Students insight into the alleys structure, children’s behaviour and parents or teachers’ opinions have progressively matur...

What adults say…

After getting an insight into what children have to “say” by play, students were now invited to ask the adults as well! Different interview techniques were used to reach various users, fro...

Playing with kids & challenging wits!

Students were now invited to pilot the knowledge gained and the observation techniques acquired in the previous lectures. We organised several ventures where students were able to meet the kids from a...

Exploring A-pla(y)ce alleys and the neighbourhood

To get the first impressions of the location, students were encouraged to explore and learn about the A-pla(y)ce alleys and neighbourhood surroundings onsite. Due to current Covid19 regulations in Mar...

Guest lecture: Children in the playground - observation techniques • psychological account

After getting more familiar with the location and thematic focus of the workshop, students were invited to the second guest lecture delivered by prof. dr. Matija Svetina, a professor at the Department...

Guest lecture: Planning of Play Space • from strategic to implementation level

After the first introductory session of the workshop with students and mentors, we dug into the “playmaking” challenges with a guest lecturer, dr. Maja Simoneti, a licensed landscape archi...

A-pla(y)ce workshop is launched!

The foreseen 2-month student workshop has been launched at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.   Curiosity and interest for the complex “placemaking by playmaking” challen...

Competition and program of the first edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival

The first edition of the film festival “Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City” was scheduled on 12-15 November 2020 as a live event, with screenings and activities in several locations in t...

Opening Ceremony

Video of the opening ceremony available on Youtube.   The opening ceremony was the opportunity to present the A-Place project to the Italian audience with the involvement of the coordinator...

Special events / Interviews

The Film Festival Urban Visions included several online interviews with the engagement of artists and acclaimed filmmakers.   In regard of the competition “A-Place/Migrants, refugees ...

Debate / Perspectives on Migration and Humanitarian Crises

The first edition of the Film Festival Urban Visions included a public debate, with the engagement of international scholars and humanitarian activists, on “Perspectives on Migration and Humanit...

Awards / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities

The recording of the Award ceremony is available on Youtube.   For the competition “A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities”, we received more than 380 submission...

Closing session

Video of the closing session available on Youtube.   The closing session of the first edition of the Urban Visions Film Festival was the opportunity to present to the Italian audience other...

4 Co-Design workshops (2021)

Within the framework of A Happy Place activity and the transformation of the Pieremans playground, Alive Architecture in collaboration with BRAVVO organized four workshops throughout April 2021 to co-...

Kollyva

A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival's main theme revolved around the topic of f...

Community Dinners

Within the framework of A Delicious Place activity and the celebration of different notions of food, Urban Gorillas have collaborated with the local cultural space in Kaimakli, Thalami for the organis...

Artistic interventions in times of lockdown with hybrid media

The purpose of this open call -opened from April 15 until May 31, 2020- was to create an online repository that records, envisions and triggers actions and experiences about the sense of place during ...

Competition for mobile place activators

Teams of 3 to 5 students of the LAB Unit of the fourth and fifth year of La Salle School of Architecture will design and build an artefact to be installed in the public spaces of L’Hospitalet wi...

Premiere "La città dentro" and "Black, I Mean Normal"

On November 20t, 2020, as a major input to the A-Place project, LOOP Barcelona announced the premiere of the video production that won the first year edition of the open call. The winning proposal was...

Premiere 'TERRApolis: Puig d’Ossa'

On November 21st, 2020, LOOP Barcelona presented the premiere of “TERRApolis: Puig d’Ossa” by Sitesize, an artist collective that includes Elvira Pujol and Joan Vila i Puig, who were...

Presentation and debate: “A Weaved Place. Screening of Film, Territorial Analysis and Debate”

On November 21, 2020, together with the screening of the video “TERRApolis. Puig D’Ossa” by Sitesize,  two-and-a-half hour programme with the title L’Hospitalet, “A ...

Presentation and debate “A-Place a Year After: Are We Constructing Places?”

In order to partake the creative placemaking actions that the project has carried out across Europe this past year with external experts, on November 17, 2020, we have organized the session “A-P...

Presentation and debate “Audio Description and Audio Subtitling of Videoworks: A Place of Its Own”

Following the challenges posed by the production of the films “La città dentro” and “Black, I Mean Normal”, LOOP Barcelona has also organized the meeting Audio Descripti...

Trattarisma

A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival's main theme revolved around the topic of f...

A Delicious Place Pop-up Cinema

On the closing night of the Pame Kaimakli Festival, “A Delicious Place” pop-up cinema, screened a series of eleven short video stories/documentaries relating to the thematic of food and co...

Urban Playground, Toyo University, Japan

Urban Playground was a design thinking workshop led by Urban Gorillas for the CreaToyo event of Toyo University. The Workshop was part of a series of learning events in the context of the current Euro...

A Confined Urban Vision

A short film competition “A Confined Urban Vision” was organised to explore and widen the meaning of places in the unprecedented situation of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the first ...

Rehearsals | A (Travelling) Sound Place

Duo Contracello (Miguel Rocha on cello and Adriano Aguiar on double bass) rehearsed for the event A (Travelling) Sound Place. This is a collaborative project with the Composition Class of the Lisbo...

Walking through Mouraria

One of the important parts of A-Sound Place project is working on an audio-visual collection that could represent the sounds of a neighbourhood, in this case Mouraria. Thus, developing and applying cr...

A (travelling) Sound Place

NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University Lisbon, and the A-PLACE Project organized “A Sound Place”, an interdisciplinary performance and installation to discover the ...

Mapping the territory: An analysis of the urban structure

The aim of this study of the city of L’Hospitalet was twofold: 1. To identify the strengths and weaknesses of the urban structure and 2. To detect the areas of the city with the greatest p...

First Parklet of Bologna

As a placemaking activity of A Visionary Place, City Space Architecture designed and implemented a parklet in front of its operational headquarters in the Porto-Saragozza neighbourhood. A pa...

Artistic performance in the Parklet of Bologna

On November 5th at 18:00, the parklet hosted live music and dance performance by StaMurga, a young artist group. “Murga” is a form of street theatre that combines percussion music with dan...

English language workshop 'Come and speak English at the Parklet!'

With the collaboration of TWYO language training institute, City Space Architecture provided the locals and Bologna residents with the opportunity to converse in English with a qualified native s...

Exploratory Walk and Walk building workshop

The Exploratory Walk and Walk building workshop, were important preparatory tasks to complete in order to find connections between the intervened environments and to allow for the involvement of the K...

Exploratory walk & positioning the signage

The Exploratory walk involved the spring semester, KU Leuven Alt-shift elective, students in the identification of the potential places to visit during the future Sensorial walk; a place-making activi...

ACalmPlace event during Living Reine : Workshop Place de la Reine

Due to Covid-19 the event originally planned for May 2020 had to be postponed to October 2020. One positive outcome of postponing the event was that the event could be merged with the &lsquo...

ACalmPlace event during Living Reine : Sensory Walk

The sensory walk was developed by the urban collective OURB and guided by KU Leuven alumni, and local artist Desislava Petkova. The goal of the walk was to...

ACalmPlace event during Living Reine : Dinner & Concert

To end the event with a celebratory environment, a dinner and concert was organized, creating an opportunity for exchange between the residents and students around the ‘Maison des Arts&rsqu...

Vertical Garden

A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival's main theme revolved around the topic of f...

Pop-up Cinema

A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival's main theme revolved around the topic of f...

Kaimakli Gardens

A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival's main theme revolved around the topic of f...

Workshops with We Circle Collective

  A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival's main theme revolved around the ...

AHiddenPlace goes delicious - contributing to the actions of ADeliciousPlace in Nicosia

With this action we virtually interconnected the story of AHiddenPlace place in Ljubljana and the story of ADeliciousPlace taking place at the Pame Kaimakli festival in Nicosia. The latter created the...

Performing A SOUND PLACE in Lisbon

Reflecting on “Performing A Sound Place” in Lisbon - A (travelling) Sound Place -  Miguel Rocha (Cello), Adriano Aguiar (Double Bass), Jaime Reis (Composer) and Henrique Portovedo (Sa...

A SOUND PLACE in Lisbon: Artists' Feelings

A Sound Place interpreters Adriano Aguiar (Double Bass), Henrique Portovedo (Saxophone), Jaime Reis (Electronics / Composer) and Miguel Rocha (Cello) from Duo Contracello, artists involved in the crea...

Creating A SOUND PLACE in Lisbon I

Senior composers Jaime Reis and João Quinteiro reflect on their experiences in creating "A Sound Place" in Lisbon. They conceived the musical compositions, and the concert, in a relat...

Creating A SOUND PLACE in Lisbon II

Junior composers Marta Domingues, Ana Roque, Mariana Ribeiro, Mariana Vieira and Francisco Rosa reflect on their respective experiences in creating "A Sound Place" in Lisbon. They speak of t...

Signifying the territory: Interviews with local representatives

During April/May 2020 -in the time of confinement- the students of the course Systems of Representation of La Salle School of Architecture contacted representatives of cultural and civic associations ...

Mapping the territory: A (digital) exploration of Hospitalet

This blog contains the preliminary research made by the students of the subject Systems of Representation in the third year of the academic programme of La Salle School of Architecture.  This wor...

AHiddenPlace goes on show – student exhibition opening

The work and results of the student workshop are exhibited at the UL FA official annual student works exhibition. This year it took place in an exceptional circumstances – the exhibition has for...

AHiddenPlace goes tangible – student competition for a symbolic on-site intervention

In order to compensate for the cancelled on-site construction of the proposed  plans and events by students groups in the previous workshop sessions, we organised a competition for a provisional ...

Students’ proposals for temporary interventions and events

In the last segment of the workshop course students collected and synthesised all the knowledge and information gained in previous sessions – from theoretical knowledge and references to actual ...

Perception and representation of space in time of confinement with photographic media

These works were planned and carried out in the period of confinement, during March and April 2020, within the subject Systems of Representation at the School of Architecture La Salle.   Th...

'Hey you, out there, have a say, have a place!' – Masterclass on the interview methodology and practice with Zala

In order to get an insight into the views, opinions and attitudes towards AHiddenPlace by the different public groups, we implemented a two-session masterclass (within the student workshop) under the ...

Behind the fence - exploring the site & first impressions

In the first half of the March students of the workshop in Ljubljana were encouraged to explore and learn about AHiddenPlace onsite. The initial plan of visiting the site together with all the student...

AHiddenPlace goes green

After getting more familiar with AHiddenPlace location through our visits, students presentations and discussions in previous workshop sessions, we had organised a guest lecture, delivered by the memb...

What is a place, who is it “making” and what is placemaking?

On our second meeting of the workshop (Zoom meeting due to Covid19), participating students were delivered a lecture by the artistic mentors of the ProstoRož. The lecture systematically covered notion...

Launching of the student workshop in Ljubljana

At the beginning of March, the foreseen 3-month student workshop has been launched at the Faculty of Architecture (Ljubljana). The goal of the workshop is to initiate the collaboration between the mem...

The Machine and the Flower

Whilst the machine grows and grabs all the headlines, the forest watches and heeds a silent warning. This documentary project is framed as a dialogue between nature and technology. It was filmed at tw...

We Are Here

The video work by Camila Flores provides insight into the experience of immigrating through the lens of two queer refugees, who are each in different stages of this process in Brussels. Through a...

80.189

This video has been directed by Miquel Garcia with the recordings made by student of the course Systems of Representation 21/22 at the School of Architecture La Salle. The students work were the outpu...

A journey to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat

This video has been directed by Claudio Zulian with the recordings made by student of the course Systems of Representation 21/22 at the School of Architecture La Salle. The students work were the outp...

The Place I Inhabit

The Place I Inhabit represents a visual essay that aims to explore the controversies experienced by migrant women within the context of Barcelona. It criticizes the invisibilization of migrant’s...

Walden 7 or Life In The Cities

By way of archival footage, recent material and interviews, the video proposal on Ricardo Bofill’s Walden7 –a massive social housing building and a radical architectural project on the out...

Beans, Rinsed Twice

Beans, Rinsed Twice follows tales, histories, memories and recipes tied up in a bean. How many stories can a recipe tell? And who do these stories belong to? Through the personal and historical sym...

I Can Only Dance to One Song

I Can Only Dance to One Song explores the role of music in forming a sense of belonging to a location. This project portrays accounts of displacement rooted in the experience of migrants through sound...

La Carpa

La Carpa indaga el proceso de construcción, uso y desaparición de un teatro desmontable instalado a finales de los años sesenta en l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, obra del arq...

Quarantine Mood

“Quarantine mood”  was the recipient of the first prize of the A-Place short film competition 'A Confined Urban Vision' (2020). Director Alessandro Marinelli, written and edi...

TERRApolis

Recorded and edited in 2020-2021, TERRApolis is a trilogy dedicated to the city of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat that takes form in a journey through the physical, spiritual, human and non-human lif...

La città dentro

What is it like to live in a city you have never seen? What is it that makes a place that particular place, if we remove away the centrality of sight? Filmon has lived in Bologna for half of his li...

Back to the Future of Public Space: Postcards of 2020

At the end of 2020 Rhizoma Design and Research Lab launched a Call for Postcards to explore the effect of the pandemic on public space, inviting designers, artists, and activists to reflect upon the p...

Stray plastic

“Stray plastic”, by Daan Fontaine, offers people the chance to stay in unused "stray space", a space that is no longer used and therefore becomes empty. This can be churches, off...

La Carte Narrative de la Route de Vannes

A narrative map by Morgane Gloux as part of a project to upgrade the "Route de Vannes", a commercial sector in the city of Nantes. The "Association de la Route de Vannes” has...

The other

The philosophy of Levinas shows that the interior of the house is an important place to be open to others. When we can show this inwardness to the other, we can build relationships with others. When t...

La Torrassa Florida

This community artwork is located between the limits of the neighbourhoods of La Torrassa and La Florida, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. This area is the most densely populated in Europe...

Natura Instable Desirably Obscura

Site-specific intervention in a forest. After a conversation with about perspectivism and Amerindian rituals, the participants were asked to think of someone who was not already on this plane, and som...

A Playful Place

Marina Kyriakou, First prize (category #ARediscoveredPlace) open call "A Confined Place", 2020. A catalogue of games to give you some ideas of how to bring more fun in the neighbou...

An Everyones Place

Charlie Hatmann, Second prize (category  ​​​​​​#ARediscoveredPlace) open call "A Confined Place", 2020. “Home Together Covid-19 Choreography”, a piece about s...

A Habits Place

Marina Papadakis, Third prize (category #ARediscoveredPlace) open call "A Confined Place", 2020. Video produced with personal notes, assumptions, and creations during the time of confin...

A Social Place

Sophie Thiel and Miriam Cooler, First prize (category #AReimaginedPlace) open call "A Confined Place", 2020. Proposals to transform public space to fight the isolation and lon...

A www Place

Johannes Mundinger, Second prize (category #AReimaginedPlace) open call "A Confined Place". A playful and fragmentary online archive launched mid-March 2020, at the beginning ...

A Strategic Place

Eirini Gri, Third prize (category #AReimaginedPlace) open call "A Confined Place". The challenges that cities are facing that cause harm to the beings that are inhabiting it (...