“Belonging to Whom? is a series of workshops that will examine the transformative power of regenerating life on the hard surfaces of contemporary cities.
Over the course of a week, you are invited to participate in a series of collective thinking and design workshops, with a final live/online presentation. All resulting ideas, writings, drawings, videos, and materials will be curated into a digital exhibition.
There will be five 2-hour workshops on November 3rd and 5th, where participants will engage in debates and propose ideas in groups of three or five. Group members can continue sharing ideas asynchronously. A wrap-up session will take place on November 10th, live/on-line, at the Ainslie Arts Centre.
Participants are encouraged to join in person or online. Through a speculative approach, they will take ownership of public, private or semi-public surfaces and collaboratively redesigning and discussing ideas to assert their presence and influence in the urban landscape.
The focus of the project is Elouera Street, from the Mort Street roundabout to the Lonsdale Street roundabout. The objective is to rethink and redesign in a hypothetical scenario where any accessible surface can be modified. Hard surfaces could be transformed into permeable, soft or liquid, or the earth beneath could be exposed.
