Category: Storytelling

Lawrence Halprin

Wikipedia

Halprin’s work is marked by his attention to human scale, user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted. Halprin was the creative force behind the interactive, ‘playable’ civic fountains most common in the 1970s, an amenity which continues to greatly contribute to the pedestrian social experience in Portland Oregon, where “Ira’s Fountain” is loved and well-used, and which has been a chronic failure at the transient-ridden United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.

 

In his best work, he construed landscape architecture as narrative.

from

Rainey, Reuben M. (2001). “The Garden as Narrative: Lawrence Halprin’s Frankllin Delano Roosevelt Memorial,” in Places of Commemoration : Search for Identity and Landscape Design, pp. 377-413.

 

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http://d.hatena.ne.jp/caesar-blanca/20101219/p1

http://blog.enviro-studio.net/?eid=85

Ritsuko Taho, 田甫　律子

Artist’s website

MIT Visual Arts Program

Tokyo university of the arts

Biography

Ritsuko Taho is an artist who works in the public arena ranging from
landscape sculpture and earthwork to urban sculptural installations.

Taho is interested in relationships to the Other –for instance,
between nature and people, people and people. She has dealt with
these issues in public art and explored the use of various natural
materials while she has incorporated community participation within
her installations since the early 1980s.

Entertainment Taxi, Tokyo, 2009-2010

  • Entertainment TAXI, Tokyo、２００９
    • http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2009&d=0822&f=business_0822_009.shtml
      • 「ハ ピネス号」 と聞くと、遊園地にありそうな乗り物の名前のように感じるが、実はこれ、ある「タクシー」の別名だ。ディズニーリゾートの舞台監督をしていたというドライ バー・高橋正康さんが自ら企画し、“乗客を楽しませる”という視点で作り上げた、まったく新しいタクシーなのだ。
    • 夜景評論ブログ
    • タクシーハピネス号特集、２００９
      • にかくさん：”街の新しい景色を紹介します”
      • 企画者兼ドライバー　高橋正康氏（元ディズニーランド舞台監督）”きれいなイルミネーションを見る”

Metamorphosis, Philips Design Probes, 2010

Philips Design’s latest Design Probe ‘Metamorphosis’ explores how we have become separated from the natural world, both in terms of our surroundings and how we perceive and manage our time.

http://www.design.philips.com/sites/philipsdesign/about/design/designnews/newvaluebydesign/june2010/metamorphosis.page

Future Vision, Microsoft Office Labs, 2004-

Project page

 

Art, space and the city: public art and urban futures, Malcolm Miles, 1997

Preface?

  • A duality emerges between public art which is bound by the aesthetics of the object, and art as a continuous, participatory process of social criticism.
  • Two roles for art are suggested:
    • as decoration within a re-visioned field of urban design in which the needs of users are central,
    • and as a social process of criticism and engagement, defining the public realm not as public sites but as complex fields of public interest. The tension between these positions is creative.

Evaluation Mentioned

  • 4: The contradictions of Public Art
    • Page 59:
      • Selwood, The Benefits of Public Art, 1995
      • ref 25: A particular problem is the lack of a tested methodology for either qualitative or quantitative evaluation, though this could be developed from the skills of market researchers; more important is the definition of what constitutes a benefit to society.
    • Page 68:
      • (first mentioned The Strategy for Public Art in Cardiff Bay,1990) ..we could contrast Visual Dallas (Dallas, 1987), which begins with an evaluation of the city, and the importance for its ‘livability’ of good public space, citing W.H.Whyte (perhaps ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’,1980)
    • Page 76: Evaluation

Adéu, Barcelona!,Lucas Jatoba, 2011

Adéu, Barcelona!,Lucas Jatoba, 2011 GOODBYE, BARCELONA!
This is the way I found to say goodbye and thanks to the city that made me happy in the last 3 years. I also would like to say thanks to http://www.atrapalo.com for helping me make it true, and to Jessica Allossery for the wonderful song “Change the World”. A big hug, Lucas. http://lucasjatoba.com		 — —