Re-Imagining Chinatown: An Interactive Planning Process
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Uploaded by powersof10 on Aug 15, 2009
http://www.fifthfloorgallery.com
On Saturday, August 8th, urban planner, James Rojas unveiled one of his interactive city models at Fifth Floor and invites the public to play and dream about the future of Chinatown. The economic, social, and built environment of Chinatown is rapidly changing and the model will capture that energy through an interactive public participation process.
The 4x8 ft. model of Chinatown includes Los Angeles State Historical Park (formerly known as the Cornfields) and portions of the LA River and will highlight the areas topography, streets, and blocks. It is designed to inspire the minds of the participants through its grand interventions, vivid use of materials, colors, textures and by allowing the public to touch and imprint their vision on it.
Fifth Floor becomes an impromptu urban planning store with shelves lining the wall that host an array of small, colorful buildings. Visitors can take these buildings off the shelves and place them on the model located in the middle of the gallery to create their ideal urban form. The model will constantly change as the work builds upon the contributions of others.
This technique, conceived by Rojas, facilitates public participation in the urban planning process by using art as an interactive, creative medium to help people think about their community. The evolving exhibition mimics the dynamic and collective nature of life in Chinatown. These activities reflect how varied groups of players—strangers, neighbors, friends—interact to create a sense of place in Chinatown.
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i really like this concept. But i am not too sure to what depth a common man can think about urban design. Architects are trained to think in that way. But surely, this is a way of getting the input of the public and get insights which technicalities or complexities have made us overlook. An innocent approach to get the finer points.
saumitrasinha89 2 years ago