Place Making:
Building Community through Creative Public Space Design
Date: 11/10/2010
Place Making:
Building Community through Creative Public Space Design
1. What is Community?
2. What are the importance of Public Space toward a Community
Place Making:
Building Community through Creative Public Space Design
What is Community?-- A group of people living together and forming an emotion linkage-- Neighborhood
Can you explain why nobody using it ?
Photo Taken at 9:00am, Wong Tai Sin
Which one is a better public space?
Produce Place Enhancement Proposal
ObserveIdentify Strength and Weakness
Propose Suggestions/ Recommendations
Public Participation
Proposal Review
Place Enhancement Proposal
Why Public Space is important?
Environment
Social Economic
Sustainable Development
Environment
Social Economic
Sustainable Development
How we can make it happen?
Only 1 answer: it can only happen when public want to do it.
Roles of Public Space – far more than a place for rest
Extension of Home
Place where culture preserved
Places for Interaction and living
Place for Fun
The Story of 明伯 and the subway
明伯 – a skillful old man that make his living through repairing umbrella.
Usually he will open his “store” right inside a subway and consider it is his home (you can see him pulling off his shoes and sit comfortably)
If we put Ming into the framework of Sustainable Development:
Economic: Using his skill to make a livingSocial: He is providing services to a communityEnvironment: He is exactly promoting Repairing (4 Rs concept)
But what he is doing is illegal…Think about why his business is illegal?