January 2012
3 posts
WatchLast night I saw the truly moving, utterly emotional, tribute show for Lhasa de Sela. Joe Grass was definitely a beautifully shining star in that room of many wonderful musicians. Here he is playing one of his own in one of Mile-End’s most special spots.
via: Joe Grass
November 2011
7 posts
Dream City
A great article (How should we design the city of our dreams?) that starts a new series on Salon about how our cities are changing.
A favourite part for me:
In 1999, Gravel needed a thesis topic for his joint degree in architecture and urban planning. The 27-year-old grad student knew one thing about Atlanta: It was a bitch to get around. So he created a plan for the BeltLine, a 22-mile...
Now, that's thinking for ya...
via: People and Place
For the Champ des Possibles?
Too bad this would probably be burned in the Champ, because I love it!
via: playscapes
Playscapes...
Playscapes from Japan that are a bit more playful than most
via: Lost Tokyo
October 2011
1 post
Watchlet’s create cities we can play in. :)
September 2011
4 posts
More bikes = safer streets.
Great little piece reminding us that more bikes in Copenhagen has made the city safer, not more chaotic, as opposed to some recent suggestions to the contrary.
Read it.
via: TheCityFix
Montréal could learn some lessons from Shanghai
via: Charlie Hurst’s Photostream
Better use of public space...
Picnurbia seems like a more reasonable use of our public space than parking spots do. So let’s take away parking spots and create more picnurbia’s!
via: Pop-Up City
August 2011
1 post
WatchI can think of an autoroute in Montréal that could use this sort of make-over. Can you?
via: Urban Tick
July 2011
3 posts
European Skippers...
A great little text by Seabrooke Leckie on the European Skippers - those small orange butterflies you see everywhere. In our Champ des Possibles, these guys are by far the most common butterfly.
via: the Marvelous in Nature
WatchI could use some of these in my garage.
For more “Hacktions” check out the Fabrique / Hacktion.
via: Pop-Up City
June 2011
2 posts
Interventions - Planters. So silly. So perfect.
A great artist-led, citizen participation project in Toronto that is meant to inspire people to start taking care of their public spaces, and maybe having some fun in the process. From their website:
“We all have stakes in our shared environments, and this public project directly engages with Toronto’s urban fabric. One of the primary intents of the Outside the Planter Boxes project...
May 2011
8 posts
Cargo-bikes for kids...
This is so great. We obviously need to rethink our entire culture, right from the age of toddlers. Instead of having little cars and trucks for our kids to play in, we should have a fleet of cargo-bikes they can try out! Copenhagen rules.
For more images, go to Copenhagize.
via: Copenhagenize
"Hello, I am tweeting with my nose."
via: rebel:art
WatchWell done.
via: Festival of Ideas
3 tags
WatchThis is amazing. They say people (and especially young people) aren’t engaging anymore. Well, I think they are, in more creative and inspiring ways than before. Organizing public art events like this takes more energy, passion, and skill than voting in yesterday’s election (and look where that got us).
…I know the Champ des Possibles would love to have these sorts of artists in...
WatchThese unconferences need to happen more often, and in more sectors of society. Could you imagine a real problem-solving “think festival” around issues of transportation and public space in Montréal? Or biodiversity in the city? Or how to keep gentrification in check so our city remains liveable, and sustainable? …Wouldn’t that be amazing?
…clearly, Tremblay’s...
Photo / Inspiration
via: KNSTRCT
April 2011
7 posts
Photo / Inspiration
Not bad at all in terms of formalizing a park space, yet keeping a sense of healthy chaos.
via: makdreams
Restoration ecology in cities
During a talk at a Society of Ecological Restoration (SER) conference, Alex Felson, ASLA, an Assistant Professor at Yale University and practicing landscape architect, provided some interesting thoughts on restoration ecology. A reference to follow up on. Here are some of his words…
Felson argued that restoration ecologists and landscape architects work with imperfect...
March 2011
12 posts
Screw Art
This is pretty incredible:
via: Core77
WatchThis sort of idea could work in the Champ des Possibles.
Je ne peux pas trouvé du texte en français sur ce project. Je ne sais pas pourquoi. Une bonne idée quand même.
The urban authorities asked Melissa Mongiat, Mouna Andraos and Amélie Bilodeau to give shape to an installation that should inspire people to give their vision on a new public space in the city’s newly built Quartier des...
Urban campgrounds, re-naturalized urban...
This seems like a stretch of the imagination for the Champ des Possibles, but I do like the idea of re-naturalizing parts of the city, as well as trying to find a way to bring campfires back to certain areas. Both of utmost concern for our Champ.
Some text from the article:
After contemplating the paucity of campfires in the city last week, I was excited to come home to news of the...
WatchNice video that explains why driving in central areas shouldn’t be free all the time. The amount of money raised by congestion pricing in London that goes back into public transportation is amazing. We need that too.
via: Streetfilms
WatchCan’t wait for this film to come out. They are looking for support on Kickstarter, so go check it out.
via: ArchDaily
Photo / Inspiration
via: Urban Greenery
You are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic...
via: People and Place
AGA et hourra pour tous les amis!
(english below) Bien cher amis du Champ des Possibles, Par la présente nous vous invitons à la première Assemblée Générale des Amis du Champ des Possibles (ACDP). Celle-ci aura lieu le 16 mars de 19h à 21h au Café le Falco 5605 Avenue de Gaspé. Au cours de la soirée, il y aura des friandises, du café et du thé. Des élections auront lieu pour former le premier conseil d’administration des ACDP....
February 2011
3 posts
2 tags
WatchBeautiful! …now, if only we had more cities that were doing this. Montréal scores really high on some of these elements (more than most other Canadian cities, including Vancouver). Where we struggle is with creating complete streets — there is a still a stubborn desire to hold onto our parking, and to never complicate the life of our cars.
via: The Dirt
Partager la ville!
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