invisible grounds

Riccarda Cappeller
architect. urban designer. author. researcher. curator

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journal article | 2024

The article looks at artistic interventions as impulses for urban innovation. It investigates their ability to create the conditions for new forms of engagement, influence, rethink or enable new kinds of cooperation or experimen-tal ideas to approach the urban context. Two examples are examined, focusing on their production and the emergence of new roles at the intersections of disciplines or in processes of co-creation. The doing of the spatial practicioners involved, shifts from creating spaces to creating experiences and new public interfaces where city-making and social engagement is re-imagined. The artistic interventions show new formats at the intersection with public space. As catalysts for transformation processes they contribute to an urban and cultural knowledge creation.

“Artistic interventions for urban innovation
Comparing new forms of engagement in public space by two local initiatives”

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