‘Designing Public Spaces with Communities’ at the Seminar ‘Redes de Pandemia’, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Veronika Antoniou presented a research case study at the seminar PANDEMIC NETWORKS entitled Designing public spaces with communities. The case study was the Vertical Gardens project realized by Urban Gorillas and funded by the Creative Europe project A-Place. The seminar examined how pandemic and post-pandemicaffects different agents, generating new links and events in space in its social scope. It …
Nicosia Focus Groups
Urban Gorillas organised and moderated three focus groups for the U-SOLVE program in collaboration with the programs partners – The Cyprus Institute and the University of Cyprus. The U-SOLVE program is a European Mediterranean basin program focused on supporting innovative entrepreneurship, while addressing sustainable development challenges, and job creation in emerging social and environmental markets. …
Co-design workshop with 5th grade students!
Οn June 3rd 2022, members of the Urban Gorillas team run a short co-design workshop with 30 animated, 5th grade students! The scope of the workshop was to explore, along with the students potential elements which could convert their school yard into a more ‘vibrant’, ‘colourful’, ‘freer’, ‘happier’, and ‘greener’ place! As a final result …
ECRN – Rooftop Artist Residency – Announcement of Selected Artists!
We are excited to announce the results of the Rooftop Residency open call. Starting from the end of the month of June we will host two amazing artists, in Nicosia, within the framework of the European co- funded Program ECRN MEET THE ARTISTS: Artist Shiro Masuyama 増山士郎 Shiro’s artistic practice ranges from performance to sculpture, …
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PEACE LAB: KITE MAKING WORKSHOPS
Pame Kaimakli connects with Japan with the Peace Lab! We are super excited to announce the launch of our new project ‘Peace Lab: In search of Harmony between Man and Topos΄. The project consists of a series of cultural and artistic actions to promote peace and to dissolve physical and mental borders of the division …
PAME KAIMAKLI 2022: OPEN CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
July 8th – 12th, 2022 & Selected days for workshops in June Πάμε Καϊμακλί / Let’s Go Kaimakli is a neighbourhood festival launched in 2013 by the residents of the Kaimakli district and since 2015 in collaboration with Urban Gorillas. From a series of ad-hoc informal events taking place in the private houses of the …
What about the publicscape? A new outlook for creative cities
A new research paper written by our team members Rene Carraz, Veronika Antoniou and Yiorgos Hadjichristou is published at the Journal of Regional Development Studies of Toyo University. ‘What about the publicscape? A new outlook for creative cities’ examines different notions of public space with an examination of case studies from Urban Gorillas, Cyprus and …
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Erasmus+ project: Creative placemaking – The path to active European Citizenship
We are happy to announce the start of a new Erasmus+ project: Creative placemaking – the path to active European Citizenship The project aims to raise awareness of the need for civic participation in the conversion and use of public spaces for youth activities focusing on tangible and intangible cultural heritage . During the first …
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Anna Merry
External Collaborator, Technical Advisor on Playful Design
