Design Ideas (#12) Talking Cities

Just like PARK(ing) the 2006 "Talking Cities" Exhibition created a collective dialogue on reconfiguring and reactivating the marginal, residual, undervalued, and public spaces of our cities.

It presented architectural and urban design strategies together with artistic positions as a vital social and communicative tool. There are brilliant urban themes in all work but some particular ones to inspire PARK(ing) uses are -

• Chair made from an wire fence by Andreas Bergmann
• Temporary library "reading sculpture' made from beer crates (pictured) by KARO
• Temporary housing made from fabric by Tobias Lehmann and Floris Schiferli
• Pool tables in public space by Map Office
• Graffiti Light sculpture by Recto

"Architecture should allow people to think the unthinkable!” Cedric Price.
So should your PARKs!