REF.A Strategies for Subversive Urban OccupationREF.B HousingREF.C Collaborative ArchitectureREF.D Trucks Containes CollectivesREF.E Complex SettlementsREF.F Flirting with ArtREF.G AplicationsREF.H Extras
REF.E
COD.003/MAD/08
Complex Settlements/
Project:
BENCHES
City:
Madrid/
Date:
2008
ESP/ENG/FRA/POR/ITA/DEU

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BENCHES

EXECUTION UNIT

 

Group of collectives (Democracia, Todo por la Praxis, y Recetas Urbanas), in partnership with "Asociación el Fanal" in the construction of some benches for a football field and recreational activities, in a neighborhood with a problematic socioeconomic situation and an exterior image degraded by a media campaign of exclusion and penalization. The proposal, with different actions in the organizational structure and in the imagination of the neighborhood, is greeted with enthusiasm by members of the association as well as many children they have been working for 10 years, is built in just 4 days, with the collaboration of different volunteers (Mórulas, Chris, and Luis) involved in this experience that generates cooperation and turns a group of children protagonists in a neighborhood that may also offer situations of inclusion and social acceptance through small interventions that improve their discriminated environments, among many reasons for the lack of public equipment. Includes metal structure "ball-stick" (LANIK) belonging to an assemblable house, 60 shelves of scaffolding recovered from a junkyard and manipulated by expert blacksmith, as well as different screwing material and snacks to enable fast mounting in summer.