25th Day: How can take place the art interventions?

I will start the process of propose new interventions in the city. In the next posts I’ll show some perspectives of how the urban space of the city can be improved. As Architect I think the art interventions could propose new places in the Freetown. Little spaces to exhibit art or to propose new spatial configuration can be an interesting way to renovate Christiania urban space and even allow more people to visit Christiania.

I’m showing below two funny examples of how it can happen. The pictures show the Chimney and a Roof near of the lake. I’m showing these places today and how it could be changed. To re-think the icons the Freetown can be a start point to think about the potential of the city. I don’t really mind if they would be build or not. As Architect, I’m interested in expand the spatial possibilities of the Freetown as a way to give a new look for the city.

What about the art interventions? Each artist does have his own eye and his own way to realize their art. At each new art in the public space, new discussions could come about it. New places would emerge. New looks in city. New dreams… more color and more life in Christiania.

Today
New proposal for Chimney

Lake today

Lake with new balconies

25th Day: Anoucement and Presentation

Next Saturday (July, 3rd) I'll present the whole project in the Gallopperiet Art Gallery in Christiania at 6pm.
I intends to post project images after this presentation...
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24th Day: Can Christiania build a New Exhibition Space?

Sure. They can. We need to remind that it demands costs, time and efforts. Do everything by themselves is not the proper way because it would demand much from the individual efforts. To realize something alone is harder than in group. Christiania could ask for voluntaries. This way the dream could easily become true.

Open a call to artists interested in show their art. Open a call to students interested to learn techniques. Open a call to voluntaries interested in help. Everybody can contribute with a little part. Propose to open the workshops of Christiania to the outsiders of the city can stimulate people to come here and learn something. Artists and students can propose art interventions with some relationship with the history of Christiania. They can construct their art in Christiania’s workshops. To construct anything is quite expensive, isn’t? The answer is “No”. Nowadays many artists are realizing their art work with recycled material. Wood, cardboard, paper and glass are examples of some materials used to do art. It’s cheaper. It’s ecological. It’s educational.

Stimulate people to come to Christiania produce their art is not a problem. Christiania does have this space. Christiania can open a call to artists and students interested in show theirs art proposals. The art interventions can be selected by a jury of the Freetown. Artists construct their art in Christiania’s workshops and expose then in Freetown urban space. Visitors arriving in Christiania would see the art and the history narrated through it. What would they feel about this art? …. I don’t really know… But I’m sure they would like of this approach.

23rd Day: A new place to Christiania’s History and Arts

The Urban Diagnosis consists to have an overview of the city. This overview include the indication of some weakness and potentialities of the city and even highlight some of their qualities. After identify these qualities and transform them in concepts, we can start a process to gather these words and try to re-arrange them in a answer. As Architect, I’m doing a project.

Working with the concepts indicated in the last post (Art, History, Urban Space, Creativity, Politic, Nature and Community) is easy to arrive in some educational and political program with some artistic content. Gather community, nature and urban space can show us where and how to expose this artistic content.

I propose transform the open spaces of Christiania in a place to count the History of this Society. Christiania doesn’t have any place to expose its history and the people outside don’t even have a fast indication of how the Freetown became true. Christiania naturally does have an artistic urban space. Transform it in a space to do politic already was done. Nowadays the city doesn’t lives a time of fight against the “Formal Control” but they live a time to expose what their achievements. Show these achievements are a way to leave information about Christiania to the others.

An exhibition place in Freetown open spaces could help to narrate Christiania’s history and spread the art they produce in here. It’s one of the ways to answer questions like: Who are Christiania? What happens in this city? What they did? How is the city today?

22nd Day: How implement a New Project in Christiania

Thinking academically as an Urbanist I might say that all urban problems should be resolved through the urban design… well… it doesn’t sounds very good…

There are many things involved in an urban project. The conception process and the implementation process require abilities very different. An Urbanist should have the ability to gather and link many different scientific knowledge as for example, sociology, mathematics, physics, statistics, arts, geography, economy, etc. The much different scientific knowledge resume of a cultural way of life in a society. The urban project should contemplate these knowledges and express them in the city’s public space.

To implement an urban project in Christiania we should respect its cultural way of life. The implementation process should be cheaper and respect the artistic urban image. We can reach it with the community involvement as working together using their own professional abilities to improve their community. We can request voluntaries outside of Christiania to work in this process but the main interest should start in the desire of the Freetown.

The project should be developed with the participation of the whole community. Everybody should agree with the new proposals. Everybody should assume one exclusive responsibility to put it in action. Each person need to have your part. If the Community wants to change or wants to improve its commonwealth, everybody should be involved together.