July 2009
16 posts
people making parks - a participatory design...
I just came across this interesting example of a participatory design process that is taking place in NYC — I found it here, on the Urban Omnibus (the photos as well).
I am just now reading it, but it looked so good I thought I would share immediately. Here are some tidbits:
People Make Parks is an initiative that will strive to bring communities and the NYC Department of Parks &...
Un blog pour un champ!
le petit blog-frère d’imaginemileend.com vient de voir le jour. Il nous permettra de mettre à la disposition de tous les documents et archives relatifs au champ sans être obliger de naviguer dans les archives d’imaginemileend.
http://lechampdespossibles.tumblr.com/
Ceux qui désirent en être administrateur le peuvent, ce qui offre une plus grande autonomie de mise à jour. Pour cela,...
c'est l'avenir du champ, people.
La dernière réunion du sous comité relatif au champs s’est tenue lundi 20 autour du Roerich Garden en présence d’une quinzaine de citoyens et de beaucoup plus de moustiques…
Y ont été présentés et discutés plusieurs points de vue et projets que nous aimerions à présent approfondir et synthétiser.
Entre autres intervenants, Annie nous a parlé de sur projet de station...
la prochaine visite guidée...
(English follows)
Visite à pied :
Les plantes médicinales et comestibles du Mile End
Lana Kim McGeary, herboriste
L’organisme Mémoire du Mile End* vous invite à découvrir et à identifier les plantes médicinales et comestibles qu’on trouve dans les rues, les ruelles, les terrains vagues et les jardins du quartier Mile End.
Cette visite à pied sera suivie par une collation...
naturalized area.
We will be posting in the next day or so all the input received from residents in Mile-End about what to do with the Mile-End Meadow…but I thought I would quickly link to this cool little example from Windsor, Ontario.
Windsor is apparently having a city workers strike, and so abandoned lots (oh, how we adore thee, abandoned lots!) have been really benefiting from the absence of lawn-mower...
Le Champ des Possibles en effervescence
Ce dimanche fut une expérience tout à fait saisissante pour qui se trouvait au milieu du champ Maguire, rebaptisé Champs des Possibles au grès des réunions citoyennes qui s’y consacrent.
Entre 30 et 40 personnes, attentives, passionnées, étonnées aussi, circulaient sans logique apparente d’un bout à l’autre du champ, telle une procession souriante s’adonnant à un rite...
Intervention de la police du CP en fin de réunion...
crazy in architecture, and maybe in mile-end?
I really enjoyed this little take by Mark Lamster on the John Beckmann alternative vision for the expansion at MoMA (the version going forward apparently being this).
I have a feeling that the plea for crazy in architecture is something that we should be thinking about when we try to imagine how our little Mile-End Meadow can one day be formalized, but still “open” and somewhat...
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other sorts of spaces for older kids and teens...
(All images found here.)
I have been looking around for some other interesting ideas for building spaces for teens lately, and finding some neat things. I’ve been doing this because of a nagging suspicion I have that a skate-park is not enough in terms of building more teen (and pre-teen) friendly spaces in Mile-End.
I have nothing against skate-parks — I think they’re great...
street-furniture, for mile-end meadow?
Maybe it’s just me, but I think something like this might fit well into our meadow in Mile-End…
I mean, if we’re going to have some more permanent structures installed, they might as well be interesting. Besides, I am pretty sure my son would dig these big time.
(via: Inhabitat, all images found here.)
Watch(via: Landscape Innovation but way of River Wired.)
A nice little run down on green roofs. I appreciate the distinction they make between purely functional green roofs, compared to those that are meant to be “beautiful” spaces where residents would want to spend time.
In Mile-End, I would argue we definitely need the functional and the beautiful to unite!
"landscapes of trauma"
An interesting idea from the “No Man’s Land” that separated the two Germanys, from a different epoch. A landscape architect wants to reclaim abandoned spaces and help them become places of contemplation and recreation for Berliners.
On what was formerly called the “Death Strip”, Joyce van den Berg wants to encourage new plant life. Her plan would see the barren...
we just throw all of that away? where's away,...
Sort of off topic, but I enjoyed this little post from our friends over at BlogTO about how their current garbage strike could have at least a couple positive outcomes.
Not the least of which being: when no one comes to pick up your garbage for a couple weeks (or more!), you really start to get a feel for how much waste we produce.
Sounds simplistic, but I think it is pretty profound, really.
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AVIS DU CONSEIL DU PATRIMOINE DE MONTRÉAL
Le Conseil du patrimoine de Montréal (CPM) est heureux de constater les améliorations apportées au projet de cour de services proposé pour desservir la totalité de l’arrondissement Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. Il estime que le projet s’intègre beaucoup mieux à son environnement et que les impacts sur le patrimoine du quartier, en particulier sur le monastère des Carmélites, sont nettement moins...
crime-fighting flowers (in Suginami, Tokyo)...
“By planting flowers facing the street, more people will be keeping an eye out while taking care of the flowers or watering them.” Flower seeds were planted on side streets and in front of residents homes. The idea being that locals would take interest in tending the growth of their flowers and spend more time being observant of their surroundings. Thieves were apparently put off by such...