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Noa Bonin Peer / @dolceoblio / noapeer.comMarch 2012 / thinkcommons.org

COMMUNITIES CREATING SPACES


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GLOCAL

GLOCAL


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NETWORKGLOCAL


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NETWORKGLOCALUSER

CENTERED


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TACTICS CREATING

CONDITIONS

NETWORKGLOCALUSER

CENTERED


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habitathabitat


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Mixed-use development


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public space


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interactions within


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Lavoir du Buisson Saint-Louis


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Lavoir du Buisson Saint-Louis


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interactions beyond


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6B


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6B


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mixing interactions


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Place au changement, collectif etc.


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Place au changement, collectif etc.


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EXPERIENCE@PARIScreating a community between

locals and visitors


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Travelling today became a low-cost

commodity therefore a less enhancedexperience, easy to consume


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THIS IS HOW YOUR PARISIAN JOURNEY LOOKS LIKE TODAY


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A memory of Paris?


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These tourists display a shared commitment to anon-institutionalized form of travel, which is central to their

self-identication as backpackers.

When travelling, they are constantly looking for a realexperience related to the city and travel destination.

BACKPACKER

LITTLE ENOUGH

QUALITY

ADVENTURE

SINGLE

/ GROUP

FLASHPACKER

CONFORT

EXCHANGESINGLE

/ FAMILY


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How can their experience be enhanced?How can they create something to the city ratherthen just consuming it?

What kind of interaction can be created between lo-cals and visitors?How can tourist undergo an authentic experience?


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CITY EXCHANGE

PLATFORM

HOSTEL+Creating new networks and connecting them with existing ones

through an online city exchange platform working closely with thehostel accomodating various sleeping and living combinations


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HOSTEL

Its transforms the hostel to a tangible space inuenced by the

interactions created around and within it


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dortoirschambres


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SELF-SUFFICIENT

FLEXIBLE

INNOVATIVE

TECHNOLOGICALSUSTAINABLE

HYBRIDPROGRAMME

SOCIALMEDIA

SLEEPING.

MODULAR

LOCAL

NETWROK

SHARED

SPACES

CONSTRUCTION

SOCIETAL

ENVIRONMENT

barsnacks

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capsules

SDBcuisine

bar

restaurant

films /

bibliotheque

shop

collectorep

urbanfarm

panneauxphotovolti

que

dortoirschambres

cyber /coin travail

freeWiFi

laverie

youtube

facebook

twitter

flickr

Sorbonne

cordonbleu

saveursparis

IDF

conservatoire

pleemploi

institutfranais

isolation

circulationdair

terrasse


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superbude, hamburg


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golly bossy, split, croatie


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5 FOR 1

creating a communitybetween inhabitants


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Tunnel de Friggit: the ratio of the housing prices indexrelative to disposable income per household


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SPACE becomes a very precious commodity


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COMMUNITY

OBSERVE

LOCALIZE

PROGRAMME

INTERACT

MUTUALIZE

FINANCE

MANAGE

DESIGN


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COMMUNITY

OBSERVE

LOCALIZE

PROGRAMME

INTERACT

MUTUALIZE

FINANCE

MANAGE

DESIGN


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FAMILY 1

FAMILY 5

FAMILY 2

FAMILY 3

FAMILY 4


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FAMILY 1

FAMILY 5

FAMILY 2

FAMILY 3

FAMILY 4


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MEETING &

WORKSHOPS

BUILDINGS PERFORMANCE & QUALITY

SITE ATTRIBUTES AND LAYOUT

SHARED ELEMENTS

ORGANIZING

FINANCIAL GOALS

SCHEDULE

LIFE PROJECTS


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SHARED SERVICES: laundry, guest room, cinema, library, childcare and garden

PARKING: electric cars, scooters, strollers, bicyclesSTORAGE: Local tools, bulkyDWELLINGS: a dwelling unit for guests (alternating) + 5

apartments


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2007 Ministre du budget, des comptes publics et de la fonction publique

Impression non normalise du plan cadastral informatis

Site


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programme

locaux privatifs SU

Famille 1 T3 80

Famille 2 T2 80

Famille 3 T5 100

Famille 4 T3 100Famille 5 T4 100

sous total 360

locaux collectifs SU

intrieur

buanderie 10,5

Bibliothque / salle de jeux / cinma 28,5

locaux encombrants 7

unit des invits T2 30

Entre 22

sous total 98

extrieur

local outils 2

local stationnement vlos/voitures enfants 10

parking voiture lectrique 12

local OM 8

sous total 32

TOTAL Espaces communs 130

TOTAL surface utile 458

SHON 558,76

budget

Famille 1 Famille 2 Famille Famille 5 TOTAL

surface SHON

Lotissement 22% 22% 28% 28%

logements

espaces communsterrain

TOTAL

Budget

fond propres

prts

TOTAL

99m2 99m2 123m2 123m2 444m2

252760

211563 211563 262851 262851 948828

55607 55607 70773 70773 113984 113984 145071 145071 518111

381155 381155 478695 478695 1719699

80000 200000 230000 325000 835000

301155 181155 248695 153695 884699

1 719 699

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Phase dtude : laboration du budget

phase d'tude

cot de terrain

notaire signature 5,00%

notaire cration de socit 5,00%

gomtre

diagnostic du sol

mission base architecte

T.V.A. 5,5 % :

660 par m2 400000

25000

25000

2100

40 par m2 24000

15000

Total H.T. uros 491100

27011

Total T.T.C.. uros : 518111

budget & programming


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shared spaces

family 1


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family 5family 4

studiofamily 2service vs.

exible space


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DREAMHAMAR

creating a community arounda public space


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movement #15M in Spain


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preliminary design


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the physical lab


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onsite workshops & lectures


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academic network


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urban actions


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digital lab


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the cultural rucksack


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dreamhamar schoolbag project | making-of

eueb kb koehs aoo ecosistemaurbano ko kommuneEliseBringslid KathrineBergEstherHelnSlagsvold

AnsgarOleOlsen

KariOlineverseth

preliminarydesign info.

researchpresentation

INFORMATIONSESSIONS

guidelines +methodology

participation

ONLINE DATA BASE

in-classselection

1292ideas

Xideas

OPENING EVENT

SCHOOL WORKSHOPSTEAM WORK IN CLASS

ACCORDING TO TOPICS[54 classes x 5 topics]

topic 1

topic 2

topic 3

topic 4

topic 5

SCHOOL WORKSHOPSINDIVIDUAL WORK IN CLASS

ACCORDING TO TOPICS[pupils x 54 classes]

PEOPLE

TECHNOLOGY

SEASONAL STRATEGY

ACTIVITIES

ENVIRONMENT

32 GROUPS, EACH COMPOSEDOF 3 REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS

A4

ONLINE DATA BASEEXHIBITION

format defined

by the artists

1292pupils

54teachers

A2

artistsphoto

eb

eu

1 pupil = 1 idea 1 team = 1 idea

32ideas

dreamhamar

kb1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

aoo18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

koo29 30 31 32

ehs9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17

1 class = 1 team = 1 idea

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1 team = 1 idea


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PHASE

MONTH

WEEK

DAY 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 28 29 30 31 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 06 07 0 8 0 9 1 0 1 1 1 2 13 14 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 20 21 22 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 28 29 3 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 3 04 05 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 9 1 0 11 12 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 18 19 2 0 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 25 26 2 7 2 8 2 9 3 0 0 1 02 03 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 09 10 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 16 17 1 8 1 9 2 0 2 1 2 2 23 24 2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 30 31 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 06 07 0 8 0 9 1 0 1 1 1 2 13 14 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 20 21 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 27 28 2 9 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 18SCHOOLBAGPROJECT

Place: School /physical lab

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EVENTS, MOCK-UPS

Place: Stortorget

06 06

WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS,LECTURES

Place: Physical lab

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TOPICS

DIGITALACTIVITIES

Place:Online

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P UBL IC S PACE + E NV IRO NM EN T P UBL IC SP ACE + P EO PL E PU BL IC S PAC E + S EA SO NAL ST RATE GY

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SUMMARIZINGDecember5thDecember18th

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INVOLVEMENTCONDITIONS

NETWORKS COMMUNICATION PROVOCATION


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NETWORKS

communityactivators

groupmeetings

interviews

kommune(municipality)

local nodes


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community activators


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meetings


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COMMUNICATION

blog

hamarexperience

word-of-mouth

localnewspapers

advertising

national media


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+ presentasjon av dreamhamar og av Stortorgets forprosjekt+ kreativ workshop p Stortorget

dreamhamar.org

dreamhamar stttesav.

dreamhamarPNINGLrdag 17. septemberkl 14:00 | Basarbygningen, Hamar

en felles drmom fornyelseav Hamar sentru

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drmmer du?

foto:GeirCock

invitation.indd 1 24/08/2011 15:37:00

drmmer du?

invitation.indd 1 24/08/2011 15:53:44

fyll kvadraten

med dine drmmer

foto:JonKristianFjellestad

invitation.indd 1 24/08/2011 15:28:04


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PROVOCATION

urban actions

presence


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FUTURE HAMAR

BOOK

Dreamhamar

a collective dream

to redesign the city center of Hamar, Norway

dreamhamar.org

contact:

[email protected]

[email protected]

THE STORY OF THE

DREAMHAMAR

PROCESS

BOOK VERSION 1.0

1 INTRO PAGE 005


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1 . INTRO

What is dreamhamar?

1.1

Intro

Why creating a participatory process?

1.2

Philosophy:

What is behind dreamhamar

1.3

Methodologies:

How to create the conditions:

the dreamhamar diagram

2 . EXPERIENCES

Connecting hamar

Story n1

An instant urban action to go

Story n2

The missing link

Story n3

The city as a playground

Story n4

On stools and people

Story n5

Indoor, outdoor

Story n6

The agora of Hamar

Story n7

Altering perspectives

Story n8

Dream on the cloud

3 . FUTURE HAMAR

From Dreamhamar network design

process to urban design

Collecting dreams

Whats next?

Things we have learned from hamar

DREAMHAMAR FACTS / CREDITS

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1

AN INSTANT

URBAN ACTION

TO GOCHANGING THE PERCEPTION

OF THE SQUARE THROUGH

A SIMPLE EVENT

STORY N.1

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Nowadays, worldwide, from Wall Street in

New York to the paths of Delhi, a movement

of disenchanted and leaderless citizens is

reclaiming public space. The same generation

is widely using Internet, where the possibilities

for consumption and creation are endless, asthe main tool for creating communities.

As architects devoted to the 21st century

society we cant work, as most architects did

before or are still doing today, offering a well

designed product to a well dened society. We

are living in a world that is rapidly changing and

constantly reinventing itself using the virtual

world. The overload of information and mix of

cultures and disciplines require new ways of

thinking and working.

In ecosistema urbano we believe there is no

such thing as a universal solution. Each pr oject

is different, and Dreamhamar required multiple

solutions for multiple challenges that only had

one thing in common: Stortorget. We wanted to

put forward the conviction that before planning

a new square we needed to build a community

of people who would use the square, who would

keep it alive. A community is the foundation of

a public space..

Yet, the truth is that the steps for building

a community are impossible to plan.

Nevertheless, we needed a plan and we found

a concept that embraced all the possible

solutions: we called it network design.

Being based in Hamar for 4 months was

an opportunity to work closely with the

community and to understand its existing

issues.

Dreamhamar is about encouraging residents to

become the creators of public space, insteadof being just consumers. Its about starting

conversations between different stakeholders,

and doing things together in public space. Its

about understanding Hamars current needs

by iniciating a brainstorming and dialogue

around the future design of Stortorget square,

by means of workshops and urban actions.

INSTANT IMPROVEMENTS

Painthamar was the rst urban action we

performed in Stortorget, and the ofcial

launching event of Dreamhamar. The idea

was to rapidly transform the square, whichuntil then had been a parking lot for years, by

painting it. Then when people would come to

see Stortorgets new colors, we could tell them

all about Dreamhamar and how they could

participate.

It turned out this was not an easy task. Being

the rst one, the very denition of the urban

action was ambiguous. Its temporary and

ephemeral nature created confusion regarding

budget-result formula, and its hybrid nature

made it difcult to effectively communicate

the event to the targeted and needed

community. We quickly noticed the need to

generate interaction between the citizens, the

Hamarsingen, would be an essential condition

to iniciate the process.

Interaction is very similar to a chemical

reaction. We had A and B not reacting together.

In order to make the reaction possible, we had

to nd a catalyst.

On September 27th a group of 25 third

year students from the Bergen School of

Architecture came to Hamar to imagine an

instant urban intervention on Stortorget. They

were part of Dreamhamars Academic Network.

Their stay was short but intense and full of

energy. Two and half days of workshop at the

Physical Lab aimed to reactivate Stortorget,

to get people aware of what was going on, to

collect ideas, to have fun, to use the space in a

different way, and to provide the conditions for

people to react, become proactive, and makethem socialize.

During the workshop, two questions arose:

- How can we bring people to the square? How

can we create an atmosphere so they want to

meet each other?

- How can we make a mock up of what the nal

square could become? How can we transform

this former parking lot into a public space?

Hamar for 4 months

was an opportunity

to work closely with

the community and to

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MARYANNE

GRYTTEN

AGE : 32PROFESSION : Student, Bergen School of ArchitectureFROM : FlorCURRENTLY LIVING IN : BergenQUOTE : This has been a wonderful c elebration marking the beginning of thepeople of Hamar taking back their own square.

During a 20 minutes brainstorming session, thestudents came up with 20 different possibleideas for a new urban action in Stortorget.

Chairs, an outdoor cinema, a stage for music, askate ramp, a balloon landscape, a talk show,

a sound installation, free painting on theroad, an open call to do crazy things, an areafor gymnastics, a heated pool to take a bath,a barter market such as bring a shovel andtake a horse, connecting the square with thelake, a labyrinth, celebrating an outdoor mass,a storytelling by people, a candle light in theevening, a dark night dancing competition,a temporary public library, relocating theBazaar building in the square, making ahole in the asphalt and lling it with candy,a poetry square, wearing rubber customs,building a staircase to watch the lake, placinga trampoline for people to jump, creatingarticial clouds, making a barbecue, organizinga dancing competition on a slippery oor, aski jump, a sleepover party or even makingStortorget an independent country with itsown king and queen.

They were all interesting ideas from which weselected the Cow - to provide fresh milk forthe coffee - and the free public lunch - to inviteeveryone in Hamar to join the event and tomingle. The idea was also to take advantage ofthis meeting to encourage people to write dow nand share their ideas for the future design, andpersonal memories around the square.

Creamhamar was created, and the secondurban action of Dreamhamar came out.

CREAMING STORTORGET

On the D day, the cow from GJESTVANG GRDcame to visit Stortorget, while students ranabout to transform the square. They dividedinto groups, each assigned a differentresponsibility for Creamhamar: one of them

settled the tables and embellished the urbanscene, one prepared the food, one made thedesign, and one sold the farmers products.Once everything was in place, the only thingmissing was the people. The long table was sonicely organized that at rst, no one dared touse it. But after one group opened the feast,everyone came rushing in.

The results were amazing. It looked likesomeone was getting married in Stortorget andeverybody was invited. People from all walksof life came, ate, enjoyed, talked, shared, metothers, chatted, and relaxed under the sun.Students, retired, international, families... Thestudents were running around mingled withthe people, taking notes of their ideas, handingout info about the workshops, collectingsuggestions for the square...

All sort of conversations started naturallyaround the tables and people got a uniquechance to meet others as never before atStortorget. The conversation lasted andgradually involved all the people sitting aroundthe table. We ended up making new fr iends andspreading the word of Dreamhamar.

Around the table there was a group offoreigners who were studying Norwegian atthe adult learning centre just up Kirkegatastreet. One of them was Joanna Mikulska. Shewas very curious about Dreamhamar. We met

RECIPE

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PREPARATION TIME : 2 daysCOOKING TIME : 4 hours

INGREDIENTS FOR THE LUNCH:

25 well motivated students + 70 chairs + 20 tables + 50


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AN INSTANT

URBAN

ACTION

TO GO

25 well motivated students + 70 chairs + 20 tables + 50liters of coffee + 20 liters of chai tea + 4 table cloths + 100napkins + 1 cow from GJESTVANG GRD -Gustav Gjestvang

+ 30 local breads + 2 kg butter + 3 kg of local cheese + 3 kghoney + 3 kg apples + 3 kg pears + 1 kg brown cheese

=about 400 delicious sandwiches

FOR THE LOCAL FOOD AND PRODUCTION STAND:

2 tables1 table cloth

LOCAL PRODUCERS:

Ommang SndreLten Nrstasjon

Mlstad grdTjerne grd

BiePer Larsen Tnseth

Salgsbua

FOR COMMUNICATION MATERIAL:

30 A3 posters200 yers

DOCUMENTING:40 color pencils

160 memory and ideas postcards15 cameras

4 video cameras

DIRECTIONS:

1. Get a cow and local food: call farmers around Hamar,check the cows availability, decide the best space for her,buy food, cheese, bread and drinks, look for a few coffeemakers, prepare sandwiches, bring farmers products, makecoffee and tea2. Make a design scheme: design a logo, design a yer andposter, hand them out to the maximum people you k now andmeet.3. Set up a physical design: Arr ange tables, chairs, tablecloths, and set the tables with glasses, plates, napkins4. Work out a communication strategy: make a pressrelease, take pictures of the process and event, produce abeautiful movie of the whole process5. Manage the logistic: coordinate all the teams differenttasks and deadlinesThis was the cow. She became the main attraction in no time.

and she told us about her previous work inWarsaw, which involved people in participativeprocesses around the history of their city.Gradually, we came to the idea of creating aworkshop for Dreamhamar around History.She was invited to write a post about her pastexperiences of similar actions, and to use it to

invite people to take part in her project.

SHARING EXPERIENCES

The serendipitous encounter with Joanna notonly gave birth to a beautiful initiative of anew workshop coming from the communityitself, but also pointed out a signicant relationbetween the urban action and the workshop.Meanwhile Joannas history workshop -Storyhamar - sought storytellers to narratepast experiences and rediscover new waysof reading the public space, the urban actiongenerated an event which created newexperiences for future stories.

Stories are important to relate to a spaceand recognise a situation. While writing thisstory we listened to Paco Gonzalez and EthelBaraonas second lecture in the TacticalUrbanism online workshop about storytelling,and how narrative gives us access to localknowledge, to the better understanding ofthe community creating it. Creamhamar wasan action aiming to bring people together byusing the exibility and accessibility of thepublic space to create an open, simple event.

By temporarily curating the space, the eventtransformed the squares perception froma parking space to a meeting place. In otherwords Creamhamar created new experiencesin peoples lives and therefore future stories tobe told within the local community, regardingthe square.

Storyhamar workshop involves to me, a lot of

uncertainties but also a lot of hopes. Dur ing

the couple of hours with Hamar citizens,

we will try tond out important stories of

the Hamar society. Stories that are part of

Hamars memories. First we will re-discover

the meaning of signs already existing in public

space. Do the monuments of Hamar really

refer to some common experience? What is

their story? Second, we would like to focus

on personal histories and try to discover how

they reect the story of the city. Photos are

crucial elements. Everyone will have to bring

an old one that is important for them. Usually

these kind of photos include a lot of private

information, theyre like an introduction to the

novel. Of course, to do this properly, to make

up a kind of ar chive, we would need to collect

them for months. Here we will make a small

laboratory out of them. I hope wellnd some

real traces of Hamars identity that will form

a creative inspiration to construct something

referring to it on Stortorget.

Storyhamar workshop invitation

by Joanna Mikulska

looking for the original story

image: unknown, reported by Geir Cock

NAME : Joanna

AGE: 28 years old

PROFESSION: Culture Animator. Workedon various project engaging the local

community to explore their localStorytelling is a veryb i f h lif


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JOANNA

MIKULSKA

community to explore their localhistory.

FROM: Warsaw, Poland.CURRENTLY: Hamar, Norway

QUOTE: First I would like to say

something that is maybe obvious- Dreamhamar (called magenta

project by my friends from Hamar) willnot happen without ecosistema urbano.

Because all those workshops, lectures,

creative works and especially ideas todo them, could only come from people

who are not from Hamar, who are fromoutside. From another country, culture,

a different experience with publicspace. Second, the big value of this

project is that everything is happeningin process; taking into consideration a

lot of different contexts, ideas, involvingdifferent groups of people who are

using the square and just coming herefrom abroad for few days, and those

who have never been in Hamar but are

participating in the project throughInternet. All those things cause a lot of

unexpected ideas which are pricelessin creative work. Its the rst time I see

architects who are working like that, somuch in touch with the community they

are working for. Its very special and Ithink Hamar should feel really lucky to

get this chance to nd identity. They just need to use it now! For me, the

most interesting is meeting with localHamar society, talking with people,

some of them have lived here all their

life, some of them were born here, later,many years ago, moved out and now

came back. And while talking I also havea feeling that great people are living

here and Dreamhamar gives them thechance to meet each other and makes

their dreams come true.

photo: monument in HamarBy Christoffer Nilsen

Storyhamar workshop was a great

Opportunity to reveal Hamars history.

We focused on old and personal pictur es,

on Hamar monuments and on the past of

Stortorget, in order to bring up the citizens

private stories. Process started shyly but

minute by minute people started sharing

their memories. For example, I alwayswondered why there are so many monuments

representing animals in Hamar: pigs, a horse,

a bull? I knew agriculture is a very important

part of peoples lives here, but it also turned

out that in the past, for many years, a very

famous animal market used to take place

in different areas of the city. An a mazing

experience was also seeing an old movie from

1960 about Stortorget. It showed the square

through different seasons: winter, spring and

summer when it became a very lively place,

where people would meet, mostly because

the market was there. You could ndowers,

vegetables, hand made tools or goods...;

Stortorget was the real center of Hamar. After

showing the movie, during a discussion with

the participants, it was said that a great wish

was that Dreamhamar would bring the squareback to people. I hope this dream comes true.

Storyhamar summary by Joanna Mikulska

Architecture is about curating places through

basic part of human life.

It is engaging, it allows

individual interpretation

and triggers imagination.

It is about identities and

meanings and about

joining individual detailstogether into a larger

entity

Sandra Via, TuuliMattelmk


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Architecture is about curating places throughthe Mise-en-scne of experiences. Hence,learning about experiences from past eventsin Hamar in Storyhamar and the spontaneousperformance of Creamhamar were essential

to our understanding of the square andcommunity, and important steps regarding ourfuture interventions on Stortorget.

IMMEDIATE AND EPHEMERAL

Dreamhamar process allowed manifold urbanactions to invade Stortorget and experimentdifferent strategies of colonization:

- OPEN-INSTANT EVENTS (Creamhamar) to bringall visitors by providing a platform to enhancesocial inclusion.

- PUBLIC ART INTERVENTIONS (Arthamar,Painthamar) to create a new dynamic, possiblyinteractive, and identity of the outdoor space,in order to attract the crowd.

- LIGHT ACTIVITY INTERVENTIONS(Greenhamar,Playhamar) of exible use to develop atemporary identity through a new active andinteractive program.

An urban action is not an art installation, nora commercial event, but a sort of temporaryinstant improvement. They bring animmediate transformation allowing an ongoingexibility of the square through a variety ofprogrammes and interventions promoting achange in the perception of the spac e.

In Creamhamar the challenge was how to getpeople to meet outdoors when they usuallymeet indoors. How to bring people to Stortorget,

a square where usually nobody would staylonger than ve minutes. Using light andmovable furniture like chairs and tables, andlocal products from surrounding farms madethe event possible very fast. These actionscould be repeated easily coorganized by thecommunity or by the council. During the lunchone Hamar politician and local citizen said thisis something the Municipality could organize 4

times a year, to celebrate each season!.An urban action is an ephemeral interventionto change peoples perception of a space, andbuild a collective memory. They aim to arousepeoples curiosity and interest, and cause

different reactions, which we observed andconsidered in order to understand the localand collective identity of different individuals.This was particularly relevant in the case ofHamar, where diverse activities were requiredto attract a diverse, multi-aged crowd, in orderto consider a hollistic approach.

In Creamhamar, this point emerged as equallyimportant: creating a collective memoryaround new experiences. In order to collectmemories from the past and wishes for thefuture, the students from Bergen came upwith the idea to bring a cow to the square, offerfree local food and sell local products, knowingthat Hedmark was an important agriculturalsite. The interesting thing is that Storyhamarlater revealed how important agriculture andrural life were in the collective conscienceof Hamarsiens - it was constantly repeatedduring the workshop, and considered as apotential occupation of the square.

Whereas in conventional architecturalprojects, the design process only concernsthe architects, consultants and the clients,and often generates isolated solutions fromthe communitys needs and sites identity, theexperimental and exible nature of the urbanactions allowed us architects to react to realtime issues of Hamar, by actively and instantlyachieving temporal solutions.


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