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#Parklet inventors and implementers from around the globe gathered in Bologna this week to celebrate Park(ing) Day. They’ve come together to share the many implementations and formats that this new typology, the parklet, first popularized in San Francisco, has taken on around the world. From India to China to Japan and Lebanon, practitioners spanning the globe shared their work, their successes, and their challenges and the importance this new medium for converting cities from auto-dominant to people-centric meant. This event was conceived by PlacemakingUS Co-Director, Ryan Smolar, after he visited with Luisa Bravo of the Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna last year. He approached John Bela, the urbanist famously associated with originating the first parklet in San Francisco in 2005 and the team recruited creative bureaucrats, Robin Abad Ocubillo and Italian-born, Ilaria Salvadori, who played critical municipal-side championship for what became the first city parklet program. Now, together in Bologna with support of the Embassy of Italy in the US, the group has gathered an esteemed cohort to conceive of a parklet manifesto that will answer some of the critical questions as this emerging typology evolved greatly during the pandemic as a safety valve release for gathering outdoors. The results of this gathering will be published in a special issue of the The Journal of Public Space, including a manifesto, sharing best practice language, governance and use recommendations.

We are excited to announce the International Parklet Symposium that will take place in #Bologna on 19-20 September 2024, with an online pre-event on 18 September. The symposium will be an amazing opportunity to discuss about parklets, temporary uses and co-creation of public space with some of the founders and leaders of the parklet movement. On September 20 we will celebrate Park(ing) Day with a 1-day-long parklet next to our garden in the Porto-Saragozza neighbourhood in Bologna and in 2025 we will publish a special issue of The Journal of Public Space dedicated to this topic. Register and secure your place! Join us, help craft a manifesto including principles and design guidelines that can inform an EU parklet standards document: https://lnkd.in/dJk48U3X Initiators and curators: John Bela (Bela Urbanism), Luisa Bravo (City Space Architecture), Ryan Smolar (PlacemakingUS), Robin Abad Ocubillo (City of Oakland, USA) and Ilaria Salvadori (City of San Francisco, USA).

Parklets, Temporary Uses and Co-creation of Public Space Special issue to be published in 2025 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS / deadline 25 July 2024 The modern parklet was created in San Francisco in 2009, building upon a long legacy of temporary occupation of roadway space to create tiny public spaces. Initially conceived of as a temporary expansion of the sidewalk into the vehicular right of way, parklets have evolved into their own unique space typology. The City of San Francisco Parklet Program has been imitated and adopted globally and parklet-like spaces grew steadily in cities around the world from 2009 to 2019. 2020 witnessed a radical expansion of non-conventional use of the roadway as many communities sought to use outdoor public space in the streets as gathering places and for commercial outdoor dining and retail. While recent years have witnessed a contraction of these pandemic-era uses of streets, many communities are continuing to grapple with some fundamental questions about these spaces; such as: Are they public or private? How to balance commercial and community uses of the curb lane? Who administers these programs and how do municipalities manage a fee structure for public and commercial uses of the public right of way? How do cities balance this explosion of user generated uses of the public right of way while maintaining standards of accessibility, public safety, and design quality in the public realm? We invite writings, reflections, research, case studies and photo essays related to parklets, temporary uses and co-creation of public space on a global scale. We invite scholars, designers, planners, urban practitioners, artists and community organisations to make critical and innovative contributions to the understanding of meanings and practices in plural and diverse contexts and climates. We welcome critical perspectives on challenges in policy-making, overbearing bureaucracies, reduced resources for implementation and lack of institutional support in improving conditions of everyday public space. The best abstract proposals will be selected to be presented at the International Parklet Symposium that will take place in Bologna on 19-20 September 2024, promoted by Museo Spazio Pubblico and co-organized by John Bela (Bela Urbanism), Luisa Bravo (City Space Architecture) and Ryan Smolar (PlacemakingUS), during the European Mobility Week and on the occasion of Park(ing) Day. Submissions of abstracts are accepted ONLY through Oxford Abstracts. Read the full announcement on our newsletter https://lnkd.in/d2_R_cGK or on our website: https://lnkd.in/dAs57FMv Picture: San Francisco (2005) the first-ever Park(ing) Day installation designed and implemented by Rebar.

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE Opening Friday May 31 at 6,30pm Curated by Luisa Bravo Over the past months we have been working hard to set-up two brand new and permanent services of Museo Spazio Pubblico, that we are finally able to present to the public. From May 31, we will offer the possibility to access our Public Space Library, a collection of 850+ books on city planning, architectural and urban design, landscape urbanism, environmental design as well as social sciences, art and humanities (mostly in English, but also Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, German, Portuguese, Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more); and to discover the work of selected Italian and international artists that will be available for purchase at our Shop. The inaugural artist hosted in our Shop in Bologna is Marco Bucchieri. The works selected largely belong to his “Magical boxes” series (1990-2024), compositions of photographic, poetic, and pictorial materials, treated with different techniques, using tears, manual interventions, and writings, and inserted in wooden or cardboard boxes of various sizes. On the shelves and walls of the Shop there are also images taken from the series “Le attese imperfette” (2017), and a large-scale photographic work belonging to the “Detections” cycle (2013). https://lnkd.in/dqK4ajjB Read the full news on our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/d5Ej3eyW See you on Friday May 31! For info: +39 331 417 3672 (WhatsApp) / info@museospaziopubblico.it

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