Claudia, Author at Urban Gorillas

Order and Disorder in Chaos: Exhibition

Claudia — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:23:54 +0000

“Before anything else was chaos: a space that contained everything which would have composed the universe. Consequently, chaos is the start of all things. Chaos is then the main creator.” Hesiod, Theogonie 28 November – 06 December 2015 | Apothikes 79, Ayiou Lazarou 81-83, Larnaca The Exhibition “Order and Disorder in Chaos” will offer a …

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Research and Design Findings: Green Urban Lab 2015:

Claudia — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:00:54 +0000

This report has been undertaken by Urban Gorillas as part of the Green Urban Lab (GUL) project that was made possible with funding from the EEA Grants/Norway Grants. It presents the research and urban interventions that have been conducted from April 2014 to October 2015. The overarching aim of the GUL project was to investigate …

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Participation at Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society | London, UK | 22-24 July 2015

Claudia — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 08:41:10 +0000

Urban Gorillas will be presenting a paper together with Anna Merry from Frederick University at the upcoming Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society at Imperial College London, 22-24 July 2015. This year the Conference focuses on ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society’. The paper entitled ‘Art and Play: Promoting social …

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Claudia — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:00:04 +0000

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Old Nicosia Bench Map: Bench Vs. Cafe

Claudia — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:30:35 +0000

“People tend to sit the most where there are places to sit,” concluded William H. Whyte (1988:110) in his book City: Rediscovering the Center. As obvious as this may seem, even useless, it is at the same time a powerful fact that has been tested in many settings – from Manhattan to Oslo via Copenhagen; …

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Gorillas Research in Cyprus Dossier Current Issue

Claudia — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:30:35 +0000

Cyprus Dossier Issue 08 “Good, Bad and Ugly: Public Benches in the Old Walled City of Nicosia” by Rene Carraz and Veronika Antoniou – View PDF here: Good Bad and Ugly

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Urban Gorillas Join the Global Pecha Kucha Movement

Claudia — Tue, 26 May 2015 12:46:30 +0000

Urban Gorillas joined the global Pecha Kucha movement on Sunday 24 May 2015 at 19:00 along with seven other local NGOs and social innovators to present their ideas in this charming 20×20 format. We shared our thoughts on public space – what is it, whose is it, and what can we do with it! All …

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Gorillas Create Playful Urban Social Space at Festival NEON

Claudia — Tue, 26 May 2015 11:37:55 +0000

Urban Gorillas’ DNA inflatable structure made in collaboration with Plastique Fantastique and many amazing people from the workshop Inflating the Public_2 featured as a temporary urban playful social space on 24 May 2015 at Festival NEON‬ curated by ABR Alternative Brains Rule. A live art project was created by ‪Mathieu Devavry‬ and Baroque Rococo‬ who painted the …

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Urban Gorillas at Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico

Claudia — Tue, 19 May 2015 08:59:23 +0000

MaPS @ Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico | Roma, May 21-24, 2014 In this conference we presented updates on the research process of the Green Urban Lab. The Green Urban Lab is a project carried out by Urban Gorillas NGO together with two partners, the Architecture Department of the University of Nicosia and the Dendros Ltd. …

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Anthropometric Performance at Let’s Go Kaimakli! Neighbouhood Event

Claudia — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:35:21 +0000

Gorillas went local with Anamorphes – Body Art Factory at Let’s Go Kaimakli! Neighbourhood Event on 26 April 2015. A pair of French performers took us into the anthropometric dimension: Created on a plastic cylindrical volume, a pictural work revealed itself through the story of an encounter between body and paint. Sensible and clowning, this adventure is …

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