The Package
The Dialogic Realm Package is presented. My research has finished and I’m happily graduated. The Package is the final product of my graduation essay (booklet) and my graduation project (filmdocumentary). If you are interested in reading my essay you are welcome to send me a mail and I will send you my essay’s pdf. For a short version of my project The Chill-ROOM please watch the 12 minutes documentary by this link.
About The Dialogic Realm:
I am already walking for a while now. The weather is nicely and a cold ice cream would be nice. I cross the street in direction of Florencia Italiano, buy a delicious 3 balls counting ice cream and sit down. But where actually? The bench? The sitting edge ? Or the field of grass? Choices, choices. Today the sitting edge, I think. Finally, I will leave this place soon.
How could we give people the space to use the urban environment according to own insights and needs? And how could we ensure that people come into contact with several manners of doing in this urban environment? Or, how could the urban designer facilitate cultural mobility in the urban environment? That are the questions concerning The Dialogic Realm.
About the Essay:
The Dialogic Realm ESSAY is a theoretical and visual research into the possibilities for the urban designer to facilitate cultural mobility in the urban environment. The questions asked in the essay are as following: What is the importance of The dialogic realm? What exactly implies The dialogic realm? And finally How could the urban designer facilitate The dialogic realm into the designed urban environment? Finally, the essay presents the urban designer 9 criteria for successfully facilitating The dialogic realm.
About the Project:
The Dialogic Realm PROJECT is a practical test case for successfully facilitating the Dialogic Realm mainly focused on the incorporating of the concerned users within the design process. The project carries the name Chill-ROOM – Wij Bouwen Zelf. The Chill-ROOM is a five months lasting project. The willing teenagers of brand new neighbourhood IJburg brainstorm and design to come up with a proposal for their future community centre. This by means of the temporary and physical meeting place Chill-ROOM. The Chill-ROOM project has been fixed on video.
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To support my research I invite you to comment the following posts:
- How Dutchie are you?
- Are you afraid?
- What your coat tells?
- What about foreigners?
- Sienna, San Marco or…?
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In case of summer times the city will probably be crowded with a lot of foreigners. More people have their own programme, their own cultural based way of acting. The way of acting they are used to in their own country. Different ways of using of public space are visible. What are you doing with this information? Do you use it to have more spatial freedom? When the Japanese are sitting their. Well, why couldn’t I?
Does the appearance of foreigners change the way you use the public space ?
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You’re a tourist. You’re in an unknown city. A big city. It’s crowded. There is a lot of traffic. A lot of nice architecture. A lot of sounds. Cars passing by. People talking. The wind blowing. You don’t know the programme of the city. You don’t know the rules of using this public space. (In that sense you could have more freedom in using). What are you doing? Are you acting like you do in Holland? Do you copy the way of acting of the people around you, possibly the inhabitants of the city you are in?
How do you use public space as a tourist?
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In this text I use safe ment as knowing what to expect.
Spuiplein, Den Haag. A square where usually no people are sitting down on the floor, having a chat with friends and drinking something. But during this festival Today’s Art people did. The square transformed in an event. Some small tents were placed. You could go inside to watch videos. Why people are sitting down on the floor during this event?
Why we don’t do this usually? The square is still the same. What is changing in our heads? Why we feel one moment ok to sit down and the other moment we don’t even think about it? When nobody is sitting down, it is probably not allowed or even worse…maybe it’s dangerous…
Are we frightened about doing something as sitting down somewhere, where nobody is sitting down?
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Which square do you like most?
Sienna, San Marco. Famous squares which really function. We like to go there. We like to stay there for a while. Why? Maybe because:
- a lot of dynamics like pedestrians, bikers and car traffic.
- it is big, a big square
- it is in the middle of the city centre
- some monumental architecture can be found
- you can move your way, because the pavement is continiously. No white signposting is guiding you.
- some events take place
- a lot of activities take place: restaurant, shopping, bar…
- a lot of green can be found (trees, plants, flowers)
- ect…
Besides San Marco and Sienna there are more nice squares. Squares which you like. Squares where you go sometime, which you pass dialy.
Which square do you like most?
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October 14th, The Hague
Grote Markt, a triangled square surrounded by very detailed and cosy 19th century architecture. People are sitting outside. Drinking coffee and beer. Eating apple pie and baguette de tapenade. People gathered around the 6meters spread of the parasol. Parasols with yellow, red, green or blue stripes combined with cream white.
The weather during this saturday afternoon grey, but the temperature not low. Around 18 grades Celcius. The people sitting, do not feel this grey. The air is hidden by the coloured parasols. The parasols, especially the yellow striped, let the sun coming in.
Thinking about summer. When the sun is shining and you need sunglasses to watch, people are also sitting here. Also for the drinking of coffee and beer and the eating of apple pie and baguette de tapenade. The parasols, probably most, are down. Funny. (Where do we use the parasol for? For the cosiness during autumn times? Cosiness is important, being headburned we take for granted. We like the sun. We want him to smile at us. We like this cosiness probably).
will be continued…
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How do you feel at home?
During this afternoon of october 14th. During analizing the people sitting here. Looking how they are creating their own territory. How they are making the public space feel a little bit like theirs. A question came to my mind…
Most of the people were wearing their autumn coats. Some just wearing a warm thick sweater. Normally, when you go somewhere you will put on your coat and will take it off when you arrive. Following you will feel arrived, feel ”inside”, feel ”being at home”. In public space, you will mostly never arrive. Especially not in the autum and wintertimes. So do we also never feel ”at home”?If so. Do we create this feeling by another way or do we really almost never feel ”at home”?
by moving the chairs?, by putting our sigarettes on the table?, by having a nice chat with our friends?, by the nice food we ordered?, by…?
How do you feel at home?
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