- Systemic changes
TAKE PLACE is a participatory project at the intersection between inclusive architecture theory and practice. The project's core idea is to activate flexible processes of care stemming from local and transitional initiatives within the public realm. It is based on collective action recognizing the act of sitting and staying as the fundamental condition for developing common awareness of a place while identifying with it. This quality of stillness is reflected in the primary building unit -a stool. The stools can be stacked on each other creating endless structural combinations according to the event’s nature. The goal is to connect built infrastructure of the city and its inhabitants, between architecture and people, thereby generating identification with city spaces. We want to activate tools for making a place through dynamics of solidarity and self-organization. The first TAKE PLACE performance was organized at the Circular Economy Festival in Ferrara in June 2019.
"Pre-Event" phase: the stools are assembled and decorated through a workshop where participants can identify with their potential uses. 'Event' phase: just staying in a place opens our eyes, while the structure adapts to our natural movements. "Post-Event" phase: the arrangement is released and the public is invited to appropriate the stools. The units will be scattered in different parts of the city. Both the public and the stools can gather again, celebrating new events.
TAKE PLACE welcomes people of all ages, professionals, activists, and practitioners.
Photo by NAG Atelier, Circular Economy Festival 2019, Ferrara at Factory Grisù
TAKE PLACE can adapt to different situations and events, localizing the structure to a specific time and place -as an installation, a pavilion, a festival, a celebration.
Photo by NAG Atelier, Circular Economy Festival 2019, Ferrara at Factory Grisù
TAKE PLACE can transform any event in the city as an active and fun learning tool of identification with the city's public space, making and using the wide variety of its places in an open, participatory and creative way.
Photo by NAG Atelier, Circular Economy Festival 2019, Ferrara at Factory Grisù
TAKE PLACE is a human-centered design: personal and physical participation, and engagement with the actions that are generated through the structure.
Photo by NAG Atelier, Circular Economy Festival 2019, Ferrara at Factory Grisù
