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Placemaking: Projects, Journals & Ideas

16 Projects 23 Journals 4 Publications 1 Competitions

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Placemaking involves designing and activating public spaces to strengthen social bonds and community identity. Rather than treating urban areas as purely functional zones, placemakers transform streets, parks, markets, and gathering spaces into destinations that encourage people to linger and connect.

The community explores placemaking through temporary installations, cultural venues, mobility hubs, and interventions along natural features like rivers and water streams. Projects range from market plazas celebrating local craft to pedestrian bridges and pavilions designed to facilitate spontaneous human interaction in cities worldwide.

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PULIYA

Puilya explores possibilities of parasitic approach to manifestations of public life in dense congested urban cores like the city of chandrapur. It perceives transit infrastructure lile bridges as sites for diverse public engagements, to enhance livability of these areas with a more inclusive len.

Mikhail

WEMAKEPARIS

All human actions have an influence on urban space. We make city. We make Paris. On the ring railway we create 15 unique stations with “names -actions”. They correspond to the hobbies and possible actions of Parisians and tourists on the route, which is tied to existing objects in the city.

Ahmad and 3 others

Un Nouveau Soleil

Un Nouveau Soleil is an approach to reclaim the abandoned railways in Paris through the approach of placemaking by encouraging citizens of Paris to reclaim the public space through empowering them to go and explore the unlimited possibilities of occupying the space in a way that benefit both of them and the communities surrounding these places.

Shannon and Petra

re-grouping

re-grouping is a modular urban furniture system playing off of the identity of Philadelphia. It takes our bottom-up, community powered approach to street furniture; empowering public space out of unforeseen locations, such as marking neglected infrastructure, transforming vacant lots, and transforming non-places.

Diantha

The Social Magnet

Revitalizing the Pedestrian Approach to the City of Panjim: The Social Magnet | Project type: Urban revitalization | The way we shape cities is an indicator of the kind of humanity we bring to bear, because our environmental impacts, our social well-being, our economic vitality, our sense of community and connectedness, all depend on how we shape our cities.

Mengyang

Restructured Mobility Hub

It was once accompanied by a bustling traffic fortress. We don't want to forget this bustling scene, we don't want to watch him keep blank. We want it to be awakened, we want it to talk to us, we want to feel its charm. We want to work with different tourists and residents to discover its potential.

Nicholas

Espace Culturel

Using the linearity and existing walls of the site, developing a kit-of-parts (consisting of decks, canopies, and stairs), and using simple materials (existing concrete, wood, native/sustainable plants, repurposed containers, and metal grating) created an adaptable, modular, scalable, and economical design.

Emeka

LOTUS PAVILION

Project gives the social profits to the site not only in spatial reorganization for the different activities, but in qualifying the spaces by proposing a new program. This new pavilion allows inhabitants to use the site in the better way as arrangement of events, meetings, festivals.

Xiaozhen and 2 others

Incandescence

The “incandescence” is not just physically but also spiritually.

Marcelo

RETHINKING WALLS

Rethinking walls concept is a view on how to reconsider elements of an area that became it's character for the bad reasons. It is a demonstration on how to look at something with a new set of eyes. It proves that a wall doesn't need to be a barreir if used the proper way.

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