Idea by
Marko Gavrilović
Artytekt
Call for ideas 2017
Carfree City
Carfree City
The City is a scenography of our lives. Our first memories and most of our experiences are connected to the city we are born into, so the way we observe and act in the world around us, is greatly influenced by it.
What makes a city, before all physical characteristics, are people we meet on it’s streets. If you strip a city of its people, you will get a ghost-town. If you make a city where most of the public spaces is reserved for moving and parked cars, you will get a city of today. Those are cities that are still made of people, but people that are disconnected by streets (that should have connected them), people that are slowed down by traffic (that should have made them faster), people agonized by polluted air and noise.
In order to move forward, sometimes you need to make a step back, to take a broad look around and to act for a necessary change. And that is what we are doing thought our engagement, in order to give our cities back to people.
Carfree City
Carfree City
The City is a scenography of our lives. Our first memories and most of our experiences are connected to the city we are born into, so the way we observe and act in the world around us, is greatly influenced by it.
What makes a city, before all physical characteristics, are people we meet on it’s streets. If you strip a city of its people, you will get a ghost-town. If you make a city where most of the public spaces is reserved for moving and parked cars, you will get a city of today. Those are cities that are still made of people, but people that are disconnected by streets (that should have connected them), people that are slowed down by traffic (that should have made them faster), people agonized by polluted air and noise.
In order to move forward, sometimes you need to make a step back, to take a broad look around and to act for a necessary change. And that is what we are doing thought our engagement, in order to give our cities back to people.