Research – Urban Gorillas

RE-IMAGINE CITY SPACES- A Community’s Guide to Activating Public Spaces

by urbangorillasNews, Research & Publications November 29, 2024November 29, 2024No Comments

This handbook is designed to serve as a comprehensive guide to the activation of public spaces in Cyprus. It draws on the findings of an extensive community survey and presents practical examples of spatial interventions, with a particular focus on the “Agora” -a transformative spatial installation at the heart of the MAPS (Mobile Agora for …

(UN)COMMON PATCHWORK

by urbangorillasNews June 22, 2024July 15, 2024No Comments

Let’s make OUR (UN)COMMON PATCHWORK together ! In collaboration with ABR we are setting up a sewing workshop station at the Afrobanana Festival on Thursday 4 July – Saturday 6 July. We’re going to be making a shading device made of fabric to install at the first reception centre for asylum seekers at Pournara. We’re …

Rooftop Re-imagined

by urbangorillasNews June 17, 2024November 29, 2024No Comments

Join us for “Rooftop Reimagined,” a unique serious game designed to bring together the insights of citizens, policy stakeholders and policy makers to explore the potential of rooftop spaces the local Cypriot context. Engage in dynamic discussions through an interactivedilemma serious game in which you will interact through both your mobile devices and each other. …

BEING THE CAT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROOF- NURTANE KARAGIL

by urbangorillasNews October 2, 2023April 17, 2024No Comments

Nurtane Karagil invites us to the SPEL’s roof, the CLOUD, to react to our thoughts and challenges much like a cat perched on the precipice of a rooftop. Nurtane Karagil is a visual artist using a wide range of artistic mediums such as painting, illustration, sculpture, video and photography. Her art conceptualises the power of …

The Potential of Agora Workshop

by urbangorillasWorkshops September 30, 2023April 18, 2024No Comments

This workshop series was a dynamic collaboration between Urban Gorillas and The Architecture Research Centre of Nicosia University. Under the approach of ‘living classes’ of the Arch 101 – Introduction to Architectural Design, first-year architecture students participated in enriching workshops at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art- SPEL in Nicosia, as part of the SESSIONS …

Stories of Women Activism

by urbangorillasWorkshops August 21, 2023April 23, 2024No Comments

Engeki Quest: Secret Treasures in Cities- Orangcosong presentation and public discussion

by urbangorillasActivating the |Public_Scape| July 21, 2023April 18, 2024No Comments

In a notable gathering at the Agora, the Cyprus-based Urban Gorillas hosted a discussion with Orangcosong, an innovative art collective from Japan. Orangcosong, during its artistic residency in Cyprus, presented a distinctive approach to incorporating local life, community engagement, and historical context into its global projects. This event marks the beginning of a series of …

What about the publicscape? A new outlook for creative cities

by urbangorillasResearch & Publications May 10, 2022June 8, 2022No Comments

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 …

Kaimakli Gardens

by urbangorillasNews, Research & Publications September 30, 2020September 30, 2022No Comments

A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival’s main theme revolved around the topic of food as a socio-cultural, artistic and placemaking activity. Overall the festival*, initiated two, two-month long workshops, three theatrical performances, two film screenings, …

Into Street Art: a research project

by urbangorillasResearch & Publications November 23, 2017June 9, 2022No Comments

Street art is not for eternity and for the museum but reacts to the now-ness of the given moment and a given constellation in the urban life of a specific city. Street art has mostly a poetic-political import. If we concede that street art advances our aesthetic sensibility, then we can argue that street art …