#iwishthiswas

An interesting documentary about urban design, and cities in general. Urbanized was the third part of a trilogy on design, which included Helvetica (2007) and Objectified (2009). This clip looks at a participatory public art project by Candy Chang in New Orleans, designed to stimulate local input into neighbourhood regeneration.  

She placed the stickers in local shops and businesses and also stuck them up in grids in vacant spaces, encouraging people to fill them in. She got a wide range of responses from the ordinary ‘a grocery store’ to ‘full of nymphomaniacs with pHDs’. This project gave people a voice to say what they wanted from their own neighbourhoods and to spark imaginations driven towards city planning. I like this project because it is a simple, cheap and interesting way to engage with the public and to explore how people want to improve their own environments. I would like to see how successful this could be in a smaller environment like Kingston and how the concept of this project could be adapted towards other public interaction projects.

Example of how #SgNal[this] could work for OpenIDEO #i_connect challenge

Check out the "Stickers" section of Stiktu today and you'll find an "I Wish This Was" sticker that you can use to express yourself and share your opinion with the world.

we should implement this in phoenix!

Many cities are full of vacant storefronts and people who need things. My New Orleans neighborhood is still without a full-service grocery store. So I made these fill-in-the-blank stickers to provide an easy tool to voice what we want, where we want it. Just fill them out and put them on abandoned buildings and beyond. The stickers are custom vinyl and can be easily removed without damaging property. It’s a fun, low-barrier tool for citizens to provide civic input on-site, and the responses reflect the hopes, dreams, and colorful imaginations in different neighborhoods.