The SeedlingPlace* collaborative activity connects the A-Place partnership to the Urban Gorillas installation in the Cyprus Pavilion – la Biennale di Venezia 2021 . Partners from four A-Place partner cities – Alive Architecture , City Space Architecture , Prostorož and Urban Gorillas met up in Venice and created 140 packets of mixed seeds from their …
Our project “Green Urban Lab” and more precisely the installation at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, a collaboration with Plastique Fantastique, is a case study in the Journal of Urban Design published by Taylor & Francis Group The paper is part of a research by René Carraz and Anna Merry Economou collaborators of Urban Gorillas. In brief, the …
Within the framework of the Summer course: Urban Entrepreneurship – Opportunities in times of uncertainty, organised by the Centre for Entrepreneurship – C4E, University of Cyprus and the Urban Gorillas and powered by PwC Cyprus – 1st and 2nd year students of different disciplines from the University of Cyprus came together in order to tackle …
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We are happy to announce the launch of our new project which will explore cities on a higher level! Urban Gorillas is part of the Creative Rooftop Network / R-EU-FTOP project which is funded by the Creative Europe program and involves 9 partners from 9 countries. In June 2021 Urban Gorillas participated in the 2nd …
Virtual Potluck was a presentation and online workshop and run by Urban Gorillas as Part of the Anna Lindh Virtual Marathon. The Anna Lindh Foundation Virtual Marathon for Dialogue in the EuroMed region has a duration of 42 days and a total of 63 online events.; the initiative was designed to promote the Intercultural Dialogue as the …
The Centre for Entrepreneurship of the University of Cyprus and Urban Gorillas with the support of PwC Cyprus present the summer semester course: Urban Entrepreneurship: Opportunities in times of uncertainty, a design thinking workshop that will take place from the 2nd to the 9th of July, and is open to University of Cyprus students of all disciplines. In order to respond …
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Urban Gorillas is proud to have been part of the flagship project 27 Neighborhoods which was one of the initiatives of Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture. The project brings together 27 neighbourhoods throughout Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and connecting each of them with a neighbourhood from one of the 27 member states of the EU, residents of …
Urban Playground was a design thinking workshop led by Urban Gorillas for the CreaToyo event of Toyo University. Urban PlayGround has addressed the issue of Social engagement at times of Social distancing through the use of Play. The idea of Play was used to create a framework around the topic of community building at times …
Vertical Gardens was an action of the A-Delicious Place* project and was the launch event of Pame Kaimakli Festival 2020. It took place in the form of a community-garden planting event. Urban Gorillas envisioned and constructed a structure to activate the main church square of the neighbourhood through the active participation of the community concerned. …
One of the video documentaries produced as part of the A Delicious place* actions in relation to the topic of food follows the stories revealed through the workshops conducted in collaboration with We circle Collective. We circle collective is heterogeneous collective undertaking social action through art projects, while tackling socio-political and ecological issues. The workshops …
