Place Making:

Building Community through Creative Public Space Design

Date: 11/10/2010

Place Making:

Building Community through Creative Public Space Design

1. What is Community?

2. What are the importance of Public Space toward a Community

Place Making:

Building Community through Creative Public Space Design

What is Community?-- A group of people living together and forming an emotion linkage-- Neighborhood

Can you explain why nobody using it ?

Photo Taken at 9:00am, Wong Tai Sin

Which one is a better public space?

Produce Place Enhancement Proposal

ObserveIdentify Strength and Weakness

Propose Suggestions/ Recommendations

Public Participation

Proposal Review

Place Enhancement Proposal

Why Public Space is important?

Environment

Social Economic

Sustainable Development

Environment

Social Economic

Sustainable Development

How we can make it happen?

Only 1 answer: it can only happen when public want to do it.

Roles of Public Space – far more than a place for rest

Extension of Home

Place where culture preserved

Places for Interaction and living

Place for Fun

The Story of 明伯 and the subway

明伯 – a skillful old man that make his living through repairing umbrella.

Usually he will open his “store” right inside a subway and consider it is his home (you can see him pulling off his shoes and sit comfortably)

If we put Ming into the framework of Sustainable Development:

Economic: Using his skill to make a livingSocial: He is providing services to a communityEnvironment: He is exactly promoting Repairing (4 Rs concept)

But what he is doing is illegal…Think about why his business is illegal?