“Bairro Criativo” (Creative Quarter) launched in Porto, Portugal on 24 May, by the agency ADDICT
Open call to invite anyone in the city – designers, homemakers, business people, kids with crayons – anyone – to think of one thing they’d like to do to temporarily improve people’s daily lives in Porto. The only criteria was that the proposed ideas had to be simple, quick, and go in and come out with only a light touch on the city – nothing destroyed before they are installed, and no damage when they leave.
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by Rita Maia, José Ricardo Cardoso, Pedro Cruz Lopes
Farmville for Real is a collection of modular structures made of two interlocking pieces. These small strucutres can exist on their own or in a group to enable pop-up community gardens anywhere, depending on the desire of the residents. The objectives of the project, say the creators are to:
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Provide people with an inexpensive opportunity to participate collectively in a project of common good.
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Promote shared responsibility in public spaces.
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Renew the urban landscape, making it more pleasant and healthy.
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Teach children and young people to start early to enhance the environment.
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Create an alternative way of spending free time.
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Create neighborly ties among the participants of the project.
