And here are how the four tools implemented in these two cases that we discuss on previous blog:
Noashima island
- Anchoring: the island uses Art festival to anchor visitors coming from all-over the world. More and more visitors are drawn to those kind of festival by curiosity.
- Activating: the chosen art works often engage the characteristic of surrounding nature, which creates visual interests and mind engagement. The art works activate interaction, because visitors can experience different sensation when they visit those art works from various angle or distance. Those art works activate the island, while creating interests, activities and engagement.
- Fixing: residents and artists had to fix those abandoned houses for hosting their art installations. This changes how people think about these spaces, also helps local residents to eliminate those blighted spaces and problem properties.
- Planning: bringing artists and local residence together to make the whole island an exhibition hall requires extensive planning. Unlike those permanent exhibitions in the museums, many of the outdoor temporary installations limited to a single session/ season. Due to the art works refresh every three years, the local community and artists have to reunited and brainstorming every three years a well. That brings the community something look forward to on a periodical basis.
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Pike and Rose
- Anchoring: the corner REI flagship store and relocated car dealerships give those passing commuters a reason to stop. An outdoor art mural and smoke theme column give visitors a fresh look from those dark glassy office buildings along Rockville Pike.
- Activating: lush tree canopy and wide sidewalk provide street seating and café that give visitors a sense of outdoor living-room. Multiple small-scale art works in between the seating engage visitor’s eyes and mind.
- Fixing: since this is newly built area, there is no blight area to be rehabilitated. However, we can see the developer team emphasize more art works and artsy panel at parking garage or back of houses, which often are ignored and treated as faceless blind walls.
- Planning: the artist (Foreseer studio) was brought in the planning phase early on with master planner and landscape architects. The triptych design has set the groundwork a richer, urbane place with heavy place-specific details.
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