Workshop "Creating a global network of places with digital media" at the New European Bauhaus Festival
In this workshop we will showcase the strategies we are developing to engage people around the world in a reflection about the sense of place, present the tools we are using and reflect on the ways in which this ongoing work can lead to the consolidation of a network of places and placemakers.
Join us Gare Maritime, Rue Picard 7, 1000 Brussel, Belgique Saturday 11 June from 12:45 to 13:45.
A Reconnecting Place Workshop at NEB Festival
A Reconnecting Place (Lisbon) will be present at the New European Bauhaus Festival, presenting a two-part workshop by Marta Fiolić and João Ferreira, and exhibiting the work in progress on their artistic project in Bairro do Rego neighborhood in Lisbon.
La experiencia de vivir en tu casa
Plaza Blocs de La Florida
Sábado 11 y Domingo 12 de Junio 2022, de 5 a 7
Una actividad participativa en el marco del festival NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS, realizada por el proyecto A-Place en colaboración con La Gloria Factoría de Arte.
Mapping Places Contest 2022: Share your experiences of domestic places
The theme of this second edition is domestic places, your experiences with them. We invite you to share your experiences of the places where you live by means of a photograph and descriptive text.
Closing date for submissions is 31 May 2022 at 24:00 CET
Announcing the winners – Video Production Open Call
We are happy to announce the results of the third “A-PLACE – Video Production Open Call”, in its 2022 edition.
Finally, the jury decided to assign the award to the project entitled:
“The Place I Inhabit” by SINDIHOGAR collective.
The Llobregat in L'Hospitalet
On March 24, 2022, on the occasion of the World Water Day, Sitesize is organising a round table at the Auditorium of the Bellvitge Cultural Centre to discuss ways of convergence of scientific knowledge, community action and cultural creation.
AMPS paper on "A Confined Place"
The paper "An Empty Space, A Virtual Place" presented to the AMPS Conference "Cities in a Changing World" is now published and available in the proeceedings of the conference.
Third Open Call for video productions
The third edition of the A-Place open call for video productions to investigate the process of creating a sense of place is now open. Deadline for submissions ends February 28th, 2022 More information at: http://loop-barcelona.com/a-place-call/
Mapping Artwork Contest 2021. Winners announced
We are happy to announce the winners A-Place Mapping Artwork Contest 2021.
Congratulations to all the winners!! Thank you all for your participation! The next Mapping competition will take place in spring 2022. We will announce in the following months. Stay tuned with A-Place!!
Mapping Artwork Contest 2021. Audience awards
It's time to vote! https://forms.gle/JkYLFo4j8ADA2KNz6
The jury and public awards will be announced in an online ceremony on Tuesday, December 21, at 17:00 CET.
Loop festival: Video production screening 2021
Screening of three video productions selected from A-Place Open Call 2021.
- Beans, Rinsed Twice. Video Open Call Winner 2021 (ex-aequo).
- I Can Only Dance To One Song. Video Open Call Winner 2021 (ex-aequo).
- La Carpa
Placemaking: The public space as a result of the artistic, social and educational activity
26-27 October, 2021
Centre d'Art Tecla Sala, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Participation is open to all those interested.
Mapping Artwork Contest 2021
A-Place invites artists (individually and collectively) to share with us the places they have created or transformed.
Closing date for submissions is November 15, 2021 at 24:00 CET.
Prizes:
- First Prize: 300 Euros
- Second Prize: 200 Euros
- Third Prize: 150 Euros
- 3 Audience Prizes: 100 Euros each
Winners will receive an award certificate from A-Place. The awards will be announced at an online ceremony on December 2021.
Soiree "My Neighbourhood... my Place”: Poetry and Fado
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University Lisbon, the Nova Institute of Philosophy, AMIGLuz Association, and the A-PLACE Project announce a Soiree to present the winners of the contest “My Neighbourhood... my Place”. The program takes place on Saturday, 25th September 2021, at 5 pm, at Largo da Associação Bairro Padre Cruz (Rua Rio Zêzere, Nº 3), in Lisbon, and will include moments of poetry and memories of the neighbourhood. The special guest is the young fado singer Martim Saragasso D'Aires.
Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City - Competition 2021
“URBAN VISIONS. Beyond the Ideal City” is an independent film festival promoted by City Space Architecture.
“URBAN VISIONS. Beyond the Ideal City” is part of A-Place, whose competition includes:
- A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaces communities, investigating the living conditions of migrants, refugees and displaced communities in cities, in Italy and elsewhere.
- A-Place / Resilient Communities, investigating the work of self-organized communities through creative and multidisciplinary placemaking initiatives.
ASeedlingPlace in Venice
On May 21st, at the opening of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, the Cyprus Pavilion hosted the latest project of Urban Gorillas “ASeedlingPlace” under their project: "Anachoreis: Upon Ihabiting Distances".
ASeedlingPlace is an open process in constant progress, where visitors are invited to participate by planting seeds, transfering cuttings, tending and growing new plants in a collective garden. The structure acts as a scaffolding, a facilitator for co-creation while also extending its physicality by providing seeds and inviting the visitors to plant elsewhere, expanding it in both space and time.
Open Call 2021: Winners announced
63 entries from professional artists from 17 European countries were submitted to the second “A-PLACE – Video Production Open Call”, in its 2021 edition. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal for their interest and efforts.
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A Weaved Place in L’Hospitalet (Barcelona)
Mapping Places
This installation at Plaza Blocs in Florida in Hospitalet, Barcelona, will be constructed with the texts and photographs submitted to the online competition A-Place MAPPING, which represent and descri...
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Placing audiovisual narratives
This is the public presentation of videos carried out by the students of the La Salle School of Architecture in Barcelona, accompanied by two audiovisual creators, Claudio Zulian and Miquel Garc&iacut...
Posted on 22/05/17
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A Re-Place
Tadaaam! We are almost done • A Re-Place is like a new place!
In the last steps of the workshop, the participants did their best to fine-tune their design solutions, they made some final touches and prepared everything for the presentation and demonstration. Sin...
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Reuse and recycle • Learning by doing!
Now, after all the thinking process, things just need to be done! Students have tackled the tasks and started moulding the materials. Through such hands-on work, we were all engaged in ac...
Posted on 22/04/25
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Rethinking the design • Planning phase
There are plenty of materials on the site to be reused. But how? Students and mentors, guest and visitors have put their heads together and shared their creative thoughts, pondering the diverse ideas ...
Posted on 22/04/24
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Yay! • Finally, we go ahead with the work on-site!
After sharing our knowledge and experiences in the lecture rooms, tackling the reuse concepts, by also broadening our horizons in sustainable design, now finally (!) we’ve got to the site. Hands...
Posted on 22/04/23
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Workshop "Creating a global network of places with digital media" at the New European Bauhaus Festival
As a reaction to the constraints brought about by the pandemic times, A-Place developed an online platform to share the experiences with place and artistic interventions in public spaces. In the time ...
Posted on June 07, 2022
A Reconnecting Place at the New European Bauhaus Festival
A Reconnecting Place (Lisbon) will be present at the New European Bauhaus Festival, presenting two-part workshop by Marta Fiolić and João Ferreira, and exhibiting the work in progress on their ...
Posted on June 07, 2022
La experiencia de vivir en tu casa
Plaza Blocs de La Florida Sábado 11 y Domingo 12 de Junio 2022, de 5 a 7 Una actividad participativa en el marco del festival NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS, realizada por el proyecto A-Place en cola...
Posted on June 02, 2022
Mapping Places Contest 2022: Share your experiences of domestic places
We invite you to share your experiences of the places where you live by means of a photograph and descriptive text. Closing date for submissions is 31 May 2022 at 24:00 CET Theme: The t...
Posted on April 07, 2022
Planning of local activities 2021-2022
This document contains the plans of the activities -placemaking interventions and festivals- to be carried out in the six partner cities -Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia- ...
Posted on March 31, 2022
Quality assessment report / Evaluation materials 2020-21
This document contains quality assessment of the placemaking activities carried out during the second year of the project, from October 2020 until December 31, 2021. The document is comprised of two p...
Posted on March 31, 2022
LOOP and Urban Visions festivals 2021
This document contains a summary of the activities carried out during the second year of the project in two of the three festivals that are participating in A-Place: LOOP Barcelona and Urban Visions, ...
Posted on March 31, 2022
D3.6 Strategies for embedding creative and artistic productions in sociocultural environments (2021)
This document describes different practice-led approaches from each festival with regard to the production, sharing and dissemination of creative and artistic contents in the socio-cultural context in...
Posted on March 31, 2022
Announcing the winners – Video Production Open Call
We are happy to announce the results of the third “A-PLACE – Video Production Open Call”, in its 2022 edition. We received 73 project proposals, with applications coming from 13 E...
Posted on March 15, 2022
The Llobregat in L'Hospitalet: Creation of an imaginary from ecology, community and culture
On March 24, 2022, on the occasion of the World Water Day, Sitesize is organising a round table at the Auditorium of the Bellvitge Cultural Centre to discuss ways of convergence of scientif...
Posted on March 07, 2022
Ferreira, I., Aparício, M. I., Madrazo, L., Fonseca, N., Pereira, P., Pinto, R. An Empty Space, A Virtual Place: Cultural Life and Creative Solutions In Besieged Cities. Proceediings of the AMPS Conference “Cities in a Changing World: Questions of Culture, Climate and Design”, Series 24.1, 16-18 June, 2021
A-Place activities were planned to be carried out in the sociophysical territory, embedded in public spaces, and with the involvement of multiple social groups. However, the outbreak...
Posted on February 21, 2022
Artist Videos 2020-2021
This is a report of the video art productions commissioned by the LOOP Barcelona festival during the second year of the project. It contains a description of the video wors selected in the 2021 o...
Posted on February 21, 2022