50 Square Meters of Public Space

Posted on Feb 24, 2011 in Urban Examples | 1 comment

Have we grown accustomed to having our living space curbed by just anyone? Is public space a mere myth?

In the current society, our living space is defined by legal norms and regulations, the same way as fences demark the choices of our free movement.

Only by attempting to cross those boundaries, we learn how limited the space we live in really is – that we are not as free as it may initially seem. We are getting the sense that the individuality of today is destined to an existence amidst restrictions.

- epos257

Have you ever stopped for a moment to actually visualize what a certain space could be used for or how big a given area actually is? Epod257 did.

In the PARK(ing) Day context of things, what would it looks like if 2 or 3 spaces were converted, here and there in the downtown core, to spaces that people could actually appreciate and use? Would it be that drastic of a change? What would the overall positive implications be? We need to start asking ourselves these important questions and begin to visualize space if we indeed want to see it changed.