Best practices for designing urban spaces. The handbook is a guide for municipalities and urban planners on best practices on urban spaces and spatial interventions that focus particularly on: participatory design; community-led initiated projects; DIY urbanism; urban gardening that promote social and environmental awareness. Download the report
University Professor and Urban Gorillas member Yiorgos Hadjichrisou presented the Green Urban Lab research finding at Kyoto University, Japan: — Kyoto University, Global Environmental Studies Department, Master course, 11.11.2015, 16:00-19:00: — Kyoto University, Architecture Department, Architectural and Environmental design, Takeyama Kiyoshi lab, Seminar, 9.11.2015, 16:30-20:00: The discussion was very instructive and managed to combine view…
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…
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…
Members of the Urban Gorillas team together with Anna Merry from Frederick University presented their research work on ΦουσκόPolis at the Contemporary Museum and Gallery Education Practices: Local Communities meet Global Narratives Conference held at the Point Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia on 22-23 May 2015. (http://artedupractices.org/conference/) Click to view the Presentation here: Life Inside-Out…
