This project seeks answers to the question: ‘How can practices of temporary use of urban voids contribute to contemporary urban (re)development?,’ The international masters students in Sint-Lucas School of Architecture are contributing to this blog in the framework of the Theoretical Component (TC) course
Place Bara 2-30, 1070 Anderlecht
- Where? Place Bara 2-30, 1070 Anderlecht
- What? An urban intervention. From 19 to 27 August 2000 performer Benjamin Verdonck lived in a treehouse 10 metres above Brussels’ Bara Square.Verdonck’s ten-day residence on of the square was accompanied by activities for local residents, commuters and tourists –open breakfasts, mini-concerts, billboard announcements, performances, a shared meal during the Sunday market; and by a daily press-campaign making Benjamin the local and international reference for Bara Square. Bara-ke gave Bara Square a human face, and promoted a new and positive view of the space, and urban public space in general.
- Who? Performer Benjamin Verdonck.
-Description: an area inside the traffic ring.
- Source: http://www.citymined.org/projects/barake.php
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events-arts,
private,
wasteland
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