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Dreamhamar + Den Kulturelle Skolesekken | Education, culture and ideas

Category: dreamhamar+ecosistema urbano+events+network design+⚐ EN

The Cultural Rucksack (Den Kulturelle Skolesekken) is a Norwegian national programme for art and culture provided by professionals in Norwegian schools. The programme helps school pupils to become acquainted with all kinds of professional art and cultural expressions. Last year Hamar Kommune decide to connect it with the project Dreamhamar which was at that point under development. This meant that 1292 students from different local schools joined dreamhamar providing their own ideas for the square Stortorget.

Kids drawings Cultural Rucksack 2011 - click to enlarge

Kids drawings Cultural Rucksack 2011 - click to enlarge

From fountains to hot dogs, from ice skating rinks to dancing contests, all sort of ideas emerged through the process and some of them made it through influencing the final design.

This year, again, the Kommune joined Den Kulturelle Skolesekken with Dreamhamar and our colleague Liz Eva Tollefsen is working on site, sharing with a new group of students the whole creative process as well as the final design we delivered last July.

Liz Eva Tøllefsen presenting the Cultural Rucksack

Liz Eva Tøllefsen presenting the Cultural Rucksack

We are really looking forward to see this year’s ideas and we hope kids get interested on urban landscape and design.

If you are curious about last year’s activities, you can check our Flickr galleries, featuring a small selection of the more than 1000 drawings and models we collected:

Drawings from Cultural Rucksack.
Models from Cultural Rucksack
More photos from Cultural Rucksack

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Dream Your City | Ecosistema Urbano at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2012

Category: design+dreamhamar+ecosistema urbano+events+network design+social toolbox+urban social design+⚐ EN

Dream Your City - Ecosistema Urbano at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2012

Dream Your City - Ecosistema Urbano at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2012

Dream Your City - Ecosistema Urbano at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2012

From past August 27th to November 25th, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, titled “Common Ground”, is open to visitors; and so is SpainLab, the Spanish pavilion, in which we were invited to take part for this edition.

The curators Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa proposed us to show the way we work, according to the “lab” approach of the pavilion. We decided to do this with a single project, Dreamhamar, which incorporates many of the concepts, objectives and means that Ecosistema Urbano has been working on and is currently experimenting with: urban development, advocacy, citizen participation, workshops, digital tools, design, open culture, network learning, urban actions, network design…

We understand the role of the architect and urban planner is undergoing a huge transformation according to the new needs of contemporary society. This forces us to redevelop a whole “set of tools” to be able to meet these new needs and challenges. Under the title of DREAM YOUR CITY we explain these new tools or methods we are dealing with and the way we think network design can be applied to socially engaged designs for the creation of city spaces. This 90 seconds movie illustrates how we understand network design and how we specifically implemented it in Hamar or how it could be applied somewhere else.


Video by ecosistema urbano + forma.co

Considering the ephemeral nature of the exhibition, we chose to make it a simple, lightweight installation, consistent with the way we are used to work in this kind of projects: trying to get the most out of minimal resources and low-cost means. Almost all materials needed for the installation were taken to Venice by ourselves, as checked-in luggage.

The paint that covers the floor and the walls, made by urban artists Boamistura, transforms the perception and character of the space with a single intervention, bringing to the hall the look and feel of the previous PaintHamar urban action in Stortorget, the main square of Hamar. The natural light, the seats integrated on the floor and the trampoline all recall that outdoor public space and invite visitors to occupy it with their minds and bodies.

Seven small screens show videos telling different aspects of the network design process we deployed in Hamar, giving the visitor some brief glimpses of the variety and complexity of the project without trying to explain it thoroughly –which will be done soon in a more suitable format.

A series of real-scale pictures of various day-to-day objects that were used during Dreamhamar, some of them being physically on display, show the variety of work/life situations that the team had to cope with while working in this project both remotely from Madrid and locally in Norway. From the more disciplinary tools to objects related to social life or cultural events, they evoke the changing role of the urban professional.

Here are some quick photos we shot during the process, taken from the Flickr gallery.

Created with flickr slideshow.
We invite you to visit the installation, have some fun jumping on the trampoline and imagining you are in Stortorget, and share your thoughts –and your photos!– with us on Twitter, Facebook or just down here in the comments.

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Ecosistema Urbano lecture in Tromsø

Category: ecosistema urbano+events+news+⚐ EN

Ecosistema Urbano will lecture next Thursday in Tromsø, a city located 1.643 km north from Oslo. The lecture is hosted by the North Norwegian Architects Association and will take place at Drivloftet, starting at 8.30 pm on Thursday,  14th.

I will present Ecosistema Urbano latest works, including dreamhamar, the project we are currently developing for the main public space of Hamar, Norway.

Tromsø in the North

By the way, this is the further north I have ever been to… I guess their summer is different from ours.

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#followcreative | boamistura

Category: #followcreative+colaboraciones+dreamhamar+⚐ ES

De nuevo viernes, día de #followfriday por twitter, y un buen momento para conocer gente o ideas nuevas antes de cerrar otra semana de trabajo. Hoy, dentro de la serie #followcreative, os presentamos un colectivo de jóvenes artistas que nos tienen fascinados desde hace tiempo con su trabajo, y con los que hemos tenido el placer de colaborar recientemente: boamistura.

boamistura

Nacieron como colectivo a finales de 2001 en Madrid, y su trabajo abarca desde las tendencias más evolucionadas del graffiti y la pintura mural en las calles, a la ilustración, el diseño gráfico o la pintura de estudio, todo ello con una enorme variedad de registros y situaciones distintas. El propio nombre —del portugués “buena mezcla”— ilustra la diversidad de puntos de vista y estilos que componen el grupo, formado por artistas procedentes de diferentes campos como la arquitectura, la ingeniería de caminos, las bellas artes y la publicidad, pero con muchas otras cosas en común: la calidad de su trabajo, el compromiso social y cultural que subyace en toda su obra y el amor por el graffiti, el color y la vida. Como dicen ellos: 5 cabezas, 10 manos, un solo corazón.

boamistura

En septiembre de este año tuvimos el privilegio de verles trabajar en directo sobre la plaza Stortorget en Hamar, el primer trabajo que hacían en ese soporte y con esa extensión, y que transformó un aparcamiento en una plaza tras apenas tres días de intenso trabajo sobre 1500 m² de asfalto.

proceso de pintado de Stortorget

proceso de pintado de Stortorget

pintura acabada

Podéis ver más fotos del proceso y el resultado en la galería de Flickr de dreamhamar.

Os invitamos a visitar su impresionante porfolio,  y a seguirles en Facebook y en Twitter.

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Stortorget, ¿una plaza para todos?

Category: dreamhamar+⚐ ES

Hoy os dejamos un artículo de Andrés Walliser (@AndresWalliser) que resume sus impresiones y expectativas alrededor del proyecto dreamhamar, en el participa por invitación de Ecosistema Urbano y que está ya entrando en su recta final. Si quieres conocer un poco más el proyecto, te invitamos a que visites la página de presentación, la línea del tiempo, y a que nos sigas en twitter (@dreamhamar).

Gente en la plaza

Hace unos cinco años estaba yo a punto de comenzar un nuevo proyecto de regeneración de una plaza en el centro histórico de Madrid. Ese verano, durante las vacaciones, me puse a investigar desde la distancia qué estaba sucediendo en ese vecindario. Lo primero que llamó mi atención fue la propuesta de una asociación vecinal de convertir la plaza en una playa. Una playa urbana de arena para disfrutar del verano sin mar de Madrid. Quedé asombrado con la idea y decidí contactar con los arquitectos que estaban ayudando a la asociación y habían diseñado la intervención: eran Ecosistema Urbano.
Ahora ha llegado el turno de la plaza de Stortorget en Hamar, donde Ecosistema Urbano está implementando la metodología del network design para promover y facilitar la participaciónde los residentes junto con otros agentes implicados, incluyendo una comunidad virtual creada a través de Internet desde diferentes lugares del mundo.

People at Stortorget

El proyecto dreamhamar fue inicialmente promovido como un proyecto artístico pero a día de hoy se ha convertido en una de las experiencias participativas más prometedoras de Europa. No obstante, el reto es grande. La participación se hace más compleja cuando los proyectos son grandes y dilatados en el tiempo, pero también son mayores las posibilidades de obtener resultados positivos. No es solo que Stortorget sea un gran espacio público, con un enorme potencial, sino que es también un proceso arriesgado.
El proyecto es una referencia para los residentes de la ciudad y sus alrededores; así como para visitantes de ámbitos mas alejados. Lo que es más, la plaza de Stortorget será una parte visible de la ciudad de Hamar y su carta de presentación para el resto del país. El denominado Network Design (Diseño en Red) es una metodología dinámica que aúna elementos de diferentes disciplinas que toman parte en los procesos de regeneración integral, especialmente en lo que a espacios públicos se refiere: arquitectos, sociólogos, geógrafos, ingenieros, paisajistas, artistas y otros profesionales.

Talleres en el edificio Basarbygningen, frente a la plaza

Hasta ahora los residentes y otros actores han sido los protagonistas, junto con los expertos de diferentes países y contextos profesionales.
Para mí, como uno de ellos, Dreamhamar se esta convirtiendo en un proyecto fascinante, y en un reto personal y profesional.  El taller online que he desarrollados en Octubre —Public Space and People— me ha dado la posibilidad de conocer en detalle el proyecto, la dimensión social del espacio público en Noruega, y lo que es más importante, conocer algunas de las claves sobre las necesidades reales y deseadas que se perciben sobre la plaza. El espacio público, y especialmente aquellos que son similares a la plaza de Stortorget, es inherentemente multidimensional y dinámico. La plaza es o, mejor dicho, ha sido un espacio de centralidad que se ha reinventado. Esta articula las principales calles comerciales de la ciudad con algunos de sus equipamientos mas emblemáticos: la biblioteca, el teatro y el cine en la nueva casa de la cultura que se está construyendo.

Hamar desde las alturas, con Stortorget en el centro

La plaza también es uno de los accesos más atractivos para el alma gemela de Hamar, el lago Mjosa. La plaza, soñada, diseñada y disfrutada por la gente de Hamar será recuperada como lugar: un espacio con sus propios significados, simbolismos e imagen para sus usuarios mas regulares. Este proceso en marcha hará de Stortorget una atractiva referencia para los noruegos como un ejemplo vivo del potencial que tienen los ciudadanos para decidir cómo quieren que sea su ciudad: abierta, inclusiva y accesible en las que un montón de cosas pueden pasar: disfrutar, encontrarse, trabajar, aprender, jugar, leer, enamorarse o simplemente pasar por delante. Los usos y las percepciones en los espacios públicos están en un cambio permanente. En nuestro caso la gente que los usa y los gestores del espacio deben estar preparados para desarrollar las nuevas oportunidades que la plaza ofrece y reinventarla como un entorno vivo y estimulante en el que hacer cosas. Un lugar en el que habrá acción sin importar que sean una cálida tarde de verano, o una mañana de domingo fría y helada.

Los niños ya comienzan a jugar en la plaza

El brillante uso que de las nuevas tecnologías  hace Ecosistema Urbano, me ha permitido trabajar en este proyecto , no solo con gente de diferentes partes del mundo, pero también con algunos expertos locales. Geir Cock, arquitecto del Ayuntamiento de Hamar, me ha ayudado a entender los mecanismos de participación de la ciudad, cómo funcionan y algunas de las preferencias de los ciudadanos en la forma de tomar parte en el diseño de la ciudad.
Mocci Ryen ha compartido conmigo su entusiamo por hacer de Stortorget un espacio de inclusión, integración y sueños.

Texto: Andrés Walliser
Fotos: Christoffer H. Nilsen

Este artículo fue originalmente publicado en inglés en la web de dreamhamar y previamente, en noruego, en el periódico local Hamar Arbeiderblad 5.11.2011

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Appstorming: un taller de ecosistema urbano en el IED

Category: ecosistema urbano+talleres+⚐ ES

ied-dreamhamar

Durante esta semana (17-21 octubre) ecosistema urbano dirigirá el taller Appstorming en el Istituto Europeo di Design de Madrid con la participación de José Luis Vallejo (@jlvmateo) y Jaime Eizaguirre (@eiza)

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Hamar Experience 13 | Lets get active and green

Category: events+⚐ EN

As every week, today we are announcing today’s Hamar Experience session, which is a live broadcast made by de Ecosistema Urbano team, full with stories and updates about the dreamhamar project. There goes the original text (by Marisa):

Go green

In this session Belinda Tato will talk about last week ACTIVITIES WORKSHOP. If you have seen the pictures, then you already know that the participants had a great time and really enjoyed themselves. As Creative Guest Elger Blitz said, playing is good for everybody, regardless of their age.

We also have a guest: ENVIRONMENT Community Activator Romy Ortiz, a human geographer from the University of Bergen. She works in the Centre for urban ecology, on environmentally friendly urban development, urban meeting places, and integration issues. This is what she writes about her role:

“Come to the workshop, so we can design a square that is human and environmentally friendly!”

If you don’t feel like surfing dreamhamar.org, this is your best shot at getting the latest news on what’s going on in Stortorget Square!

See you today, on Monday 17th, at 18:00 on dreamhamar.org!

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Hamar Experience 12 | Cultural Rucksack and art in public space

Category: dreamhamar+events+⚐ EN

This evening the energy of the young and the inspiration of the muses make a somewhat different Hamar Experience, but don’t be afraid, for it is what happens when you have so many things to talk about with such nice guests.

Kathrine Berg is a lovely woman and artist who is working with the 1,300 kids from the Cultural Rucksack Project. By the way, the Cultural Rucksack will finish this week and we are looking forward to seeing the results.

Inger Lise works on a different project about art and youth. Whatever she has to say, it is going to be interesting. And yes, we are letting her tell you the details about the project. We think it’s more interesting that way.

And there is more, because next week ACTIVITIES workshops begin and you are going to get a preview on what is going to happen there – What? You haven’t registered yet? It is free, it is fun and you’ll meet interesting people while talking about Hamar. And we might just invite you to coffee and cake, too.

There will also be a surprise for the technology oriented, so don’t forget your smart phone or your tablet pc.

Let the muses and the younsters inspire you this evening at 18:00h on Hamar Experience 12.

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Hamar Experience 11 | Technology workshop

Category: dreamhamar+events+⚐ EN

Last week the TECHNOLOGY workshop took place and Hamar response was even better than expected. We also had a workshop with students from Bergen School of Architecture, who resulted in a free lunch on Stortorget – with a cow as special guest!

On today’s Hamar Experience 11 Belinda Tato will share pictures and anecdotes from the workshop and the free lunch.

And of course, because Hamar is the star of dreamhamar, Belinda will share the spotlight with a citizen who participated on TECHNOLOGY workshop – Morten Fridstrøm. He will tell us about his experience and if the workshop was everything he expected!

Unfortunately, we will not be able to bring the cow to Hamar Experience. Nevertheless, you’ve got a date with the progress of dreamhamar on Monday, at 18:00h on http://www.dreamhamar.org/category/hamar-experience/

See you this evening!

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Dreamhamar network of european workshops: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.

Category: arquitectura+dreamhamar+⚐ EN

Copenhagen 5-9th september 2011

During one week master students and 3rd year students from the Royal Academy of fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen were working around dreamhamar project. The students were mainly from Denmark but there was an important amount of them coming from countries all around the world. There were students from: Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Chec Republic,
Island,…
The workshop was lead by the danish professor Frans Derniak and the ecosistema urbano partner Jose Luis Vallejo (@jlvmateo).
The main aim of the workshop was to experience public spaces in Copenhagen by directly acting on them and later extract the learning of the process and comunicate to Hamar citizens involved in the design of the new Stortorget Square.

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HAMAR EXPERIENCE 10 | TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP STARTS TOMORROW!!

Category: dreamhamar+⚐ EN

This is going to be a very interesting week in Hamar. TECHNOLOGY workshop begins tomorrow, Sept. 27th, at 18h at the Physical LAB, with media expert Bjarte Ytre-Arne as community activator.

The workshop will continue on Wednesday 28th, with blogger Juan Freire. TECHNOLOGY ends on Thursday 29th with a lecture and a round table with Bjarte Ytre-Arne and Juan Freire from 19 to 21h.

You can still register for the workshops (dreamhamar@gmail.com) or just show up at the lecture on the 29th.

You are all invited to participate, share your ideas and meet other people interested in the future of Stortorget Square.

Belinda Tato will talk about this and other subjects on today’s Hamar Experience. Remember, you’ve got a date at 18h with Hamar Experience 10!

More info on TECHNOLOGY workshop here (Norwegian)

 

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ONLINE WORKSHOPS | introductory week with sociologist Andrés Walliser

Category: dreamhamar+educación+urban social design

dreamhamar online workshops are scheduled for the month of October, but this week we started with two introductory sessions, in order to test connections and technologies we are using (google+, livestream, dramhamar open blog and social network) and to introduce participants, methodology and contents of the online workshops.

Sociologist Andrés Walliser, director of PUBLIC SPACE AND PEOPLE is the coordinator of the following 2 sessions scheduled for this week:
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Tuesday 13th of September, 6pm UTC+2 (Norway Time)
NETWORK DESIGN CONNECTION TEST with director Andrés Walliser
This was yesterday: check the video of the session below!

TODAY! | Wednesday 14th of September, 6pm UTC+2 (Norway Time)
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP by director Andrés Walliser
See you at the digital LAB at 6PM (OPEN TO EVERYBODY)
Everybody is invited to participate to this session via the chat!

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Just a quick remind for those who are interested in participating: registations for online workshops are still open until the end of september.
Don’t hesitate to dreamhamar.org/online-workshops for more info or just contact us!
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See you at the digital LAB at 6PM

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We’ve Got the Mayor!!! Einar Busterud and Writer Knut Faldbakken On Hamar Experience

Category: dreamhamar+⚐ EN

Hamar Experience Knut Faldbakken
Image by alaskr
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After the amusing – and sometimes amazing – Hamar Experience Session 6 with the Digital LAB team, we are ready to bring you a more serious and quite intellectual Hamar Experience.
We are proud to announce that today, at 18:00h (Madrid, Norway time), Hamar Experience will have two very special guests. We will be meeting Einar Busterud, Mayor of Hamar since 1999 and former general manager of the advertisement agency Ord & Jord. He will share with us his dreams for Hamar and Stortorget, and the wisdom of a long time Mayor.
As it is becoming customary, he is bringing friend along for the Experience.
And he is not just a friend, he is the novelist Knut Faldbakken. He was born in Hamar and lives there, too. His books have been published in 21 countries, translated to 18 languages and have sold two million copies worldwide.
Sorry, with guests likes this, you just can’t miss it. Can’t you?
Looking forward to see you on www.livestream.com/dreamhamar , today 5th of September, at 18:00 (Madrid, Norway time), just 12 days before the Opening Event of September the 17th!!

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EU blog se toma un descanso

Category: ecosistema urbano+⚐ ES

No, aunque sea verano no nos vamos de vacaciones. Nos trasladamos a Hamar para trabajar en el proyecto de diseño colaborativo dreamhamar.

Los próximos días realizaremos el trayecto Madrid-Hamar en coche. Sobre el viaje sí que podemos prometeros un post que esperamos os resulte interesante.


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A partir de entonces contad con que seguiremos publicando posts relacionados con dreamhamar y el proceso de rediseño de Stortorget Square los lunes y los viernes y, siempre que nos quede tiempo y energía, publicaremos algún artículo más entre semana.

Disfrutad de lo que queda de verano y no os os olvidéis de nosotros.

¡Nos leemos en septiembre!

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How to make pizza, network design style

Category: dreamhamar+urban social design+⚐ EN

 

Image by Seth W. (Flickr)
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Sometimes two simple words combine to create a concept difficult to understand, like network design.

Network design is the methodology Ecosistema Urbano is going to apply in the redesigning process of Storget Square, in Hamar. The name of the project is dreamhamar.

It looks like this:

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EU in Hamar | dreamhamar latest news on Hamar Experience

Category: dreamhamar+ecosistema urbano+⚐ EN

Since last Thursday part of Ecosistema Urbano (@ecosistema) is in Hamar for the dreamhamar project.

Belinda Tato and Noa Peer (@belindatato, @dolceoblio) are in Hamar making contacts within Hamar’s social fabric and trying to get as many people involved as possible. Today they will share with us dreamhamar‘s progress on Hamar Experience, at 18:00 (Madrid, Norway time).

There will be five FREE workshops for the Hedmark County residents to participate on. By means of these workshops their ideas will become part of the network design process of dreamhamar.

For those who do not live in Hedmark, the online workshops are the best way to participate in dreamhamar. Registration is open until September 26th.

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Online Workshops open to participants & Hamar Experience Session 2

Category: dreamhamar+⚐ EN

dreamhamar is Ecosistema Urbano’s latest project and besides collaboratively designing the new Stortorget square in Hamar, aims to generate the conditions for interaction and self-organization between people and their environment.

Two online workshops will allow anyone to be part of an international network of professionals and talented people. The aim is to develop and share ideas about the design of a public space: Stortorget Square in Hamar, Norway.

Registration is open and they will take place in October 2011:

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launching dreamhamar | LIVE NEXT MONDAY at 6pm

Category: dreamhamar+urbanism+⚐ EN

After few months of intensive work at Ecosistema Urbano, we are pleased to announce the launch of dreamhamar, a network design process around Stortorget square in Hamar, Norway.

Network Design is a process of open and transparent design allowing both local and international contributors to work and propose solutions for the same project. For more information about dreamhamar and network design process you can visit the ABOUT page.

Since one of the main purposes of dreamhamar is to encourage people’s participation in the project, please don’t hesitate to share with us your opinions and ideas by commenting this post or just through the CONTACT page.

One of the tools we will be using to communicate the progress of the project is the HAMAR EXPERIENCE, a weekly video broadcasting in which the Local Lab Team and Ecosistema Urbano will describe the project in progress. We will share reports about activities, challenges encountered during the process along with the every day life of the Local Lab Team. HAMAR EXPERIENCE aims to make the process a shared and learning architecture experience.

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Looking for a Norwegian young architect

Category: ecosistema urbano+eu:calls+⚐ EN

Ecosistema Urbano is looking for a Norwegian young architect for a position at our office in Madrid. The main task will be collaborating on the project Hamar-onethousandsquare, from June 2011 till May 2012.

If you are interested, please contact info@ecosistemaurbano for further details.

More info about the project:
http://onethousandsquare.org/
More info about ecosistema urbano:
http://ecosistemaurbano.com/
http://ecosistemaurbano.org/
twitter: @ecosistema

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ONETHOUSANDSQUARE generating debate through local media in Hamar

Category: ecosistema urbano+work in progress+⚐ EN

The ONETHOUSANDSQUARE (http://onethousandsquare.org/) project have yet started and it is already generating debate in Hamar! “Supporting the art project in Stortorget” Or “Støtter kunstprosjektet på Stortorget” was the title of last week’s local newspaper

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[work in progress] ONETHOUSANDSQUARE

Category: urban social design+work in progress+⚐ ES

 

ONETHOUSANDSQUARE ha sido la propuesta ganadora del concurso de ideas para el diseño de una intervención en la Stortorget main square de Hamar, ciudad noruega ubicada a 130 kilómetros al norte de Oslo. El proyecto conectará esta ciudad con el resto del mundo mediante un diseño colaborativo de espacio público utilizando herramientas del siglo XXI.

ONETHOUSANDSQUARE combinará la aportación creativa de los ciudadanos de Hamar con la de profesionales y ciudadanos del resto del mundo que deseen participar en la realización de un proceso nuevo de ideación y diseño Open Source de espacio público, conectando el espacio de trabajo digital y físico en la plaza de Stortorget.