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Revitalization of Vast City Spaces Through the Means of Sound

City could be described as a living, breathing machine, tremendous machine. During a period of time, cities are changing with its inhabitants. These changes aren’t obvious at first sight, but they can be acknowledged during a period of time. In this time gap, some places lose their primary purpose and get inhabited with the new ones, some just stay forgotten, omitted. These places are the ones that draw our attention, that we are interested in. These vast places, which are forgotten in the memory of its inhabitants, or which were just omitted due to other differences, are the places of heritage. These spaces are also places of possibilities and places of encounter, places where private and common realm get intertwined. Through existing case studies and workshops, Zagreb and Belgrade vast spaces (and other cities in the region, which could be researched in further phases) and their acknowledgment through sound- producing structures and installations (Zadar), we produce / offer places which become once again introduced into a memory of its inhabitants, and again become socially aware. Through this approaches we make people involved with their forgotten spaces in the city, places of heritage, and make them again attractive to new users, or at least they became again part of everyday talk, and maybe get their second chance in being place of life. Cohousing as a way of coexistence can be placed in this spaces after they become once again introduced as a “part” of the city, not just as a place of lost memory. All this places are usually inside clusters, so as such, they are ideal for cohousing. Spaces that became places of interplay and interaction of community around them. Today, more flexible and dynamic places and structures are required, in which conventions of the past have been replaced with some new conventions of digital age in which we are living today. The evolution of social behaviour requires a change in the concept of design. Heterogeneity and multifunctionality features are now already current. Communication is a structural component of society. Now, more than ever before, almost nothing can be generated without communication. Erasing the boundaries or more accurately fading / bleaching of the boundaries is becoming more common. Through the power of temporary use, and with sound acting as urban catalyst we make this places acknowledged, brought to the memory of its inhabitants, and making them once again part of the community.

vast places, urban catalyst, sound-producing structures, temporary use

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