Urban intervention

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Flexible Urban Design, Urban Intervention Design, Urban Pavilion Public Spaces, Sustainable Street Design, Temporary Installation Public Spaces, Public Space Installation, Modular Public Space, Urban Installation Public Spaces, Modular Street Furniture

Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

Design Citizens: professional-grassroots urban tactics - Spacing National Music Venue Design, Underpass Design, Villa Architecture, Venue Design, Urban Intervention, Rainy Afternoon, Public Space Design, Urban Music, Shag Carpet

For one dreary rainy afternoon this past July, an underpass of Ottawa’s Queensway was overtaken by acoustic guitars and hot pink shag carpets. With bicycles and runners, and the rumble of the O-Train and highway as a backdrop, passersby were invited to play a song on the guitar or lounge on the carpeted concrete slopesContinue reading "Design Citizens: professional-grassroots urban tactics"

Community Public Space Design, Public Realm Architecture, Urban Design Interventions, Walkable City Concept, Public Realm Design, Design Intervention Public Spaces, Urban Intervention Architecture, Placemaking Public Spaces Urban Design, Urban Architecture Public Spaces

Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the…