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Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

Brett Mahon, Joonas Parviainen, Saagar Tulshan, Shreyansh Sett built Level Up, a multi-level pavilion where people can gather and relax in Rijeka, Croatia.

Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the…

Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

For one dreary rainy afternoon this past July, an underpass of Ottawa’s Queensway was overtaken by acoustic guitars and hot pink shag carpets. With bicycles and runners, and the rumble of the O-Train and highway as a backdrop, passersby were invited to play a song on the guitar or lounge on the carpeted concrete slopesContinue reading "Design Citizens: professional-grassroots urban tactics"

Image 5 of 21 from gallery of TULIP – Your place at the table / ADHOC architectes. Photograph by Raphael Thibodeau

Urban plugins is a series of flexible urban furniture, modular extensions that can be plugged to existing planters and light poles forming different configurations.

Urban interventions can bring vitality to any place, they create new spaces that enrich everyday life in the ever-complex organisms

Urban Gatherings is a series of urban furniture proposed for Beirut Souks outdoor spaces after careful observation and analysis of people behavior, activities and needs.