URBAN BIRDS

ON BLGRDS PLADS
LOUISE DEDENROTH HJ FRANKA OROZA BERIT FUNK MICHAEL NIELSEN ANNA STREMOSE KRISTOFFER GAMDRUP

Interviews at the Blgrdsplads in Nrrebro, Kbenhavn:

A FARMERS MARKET

WE WANT A TOILET! LETS UNIFY AND CONNECT THE DIFFERENT SIDES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE SQUARE, EVERYONE SHOULD FEEL WELCOME HERE

ACTIVITIES FOR THE CHILDREN ECOLOGICAL MARKETS, MORE HAPPENINGS

FEELING OF SAFETY IS MISSING

MORE LIFE - CONCERTS, MUSIC

ARTISTIC TREASURE HUNT

GUERILLA GARDENING

DIFFERENT INTERVIEWING STRATEGY:

If there was no gravity? - I would hang everything in scaffoldings with strings so it doesnt blow away. If there where no light? - I would decorate the street with big tubes lit up in different colors If you where very tiny? - Like a pizzamouse? I would create small mouse-roads and pathways, search for places to find food, protected from glass splinters. Also big pieces of foam to crawl around in! We also need play grounds for adults! Why are only the kids allowed to have fun??

RESULTS FROM THE INTERVIEWS

From interviewing people in the square we found that the two ends of the square are very seperated. One end holds hip cafs and shops, young students and people passing to go to work. The other end is occupied mostly by the inhabitants, mainly immigrants and families.

LIKES
Theres a lot of action for the children around the square organized by the library and the neighbourhood administration

DISLIKES
The neighbourhood is unsafe The square is divided between hipsters and residents More hygge Nothing new survives vandalism

The squares football field is in active use, in winter its freezed for ice-skating

SO WHAT DO WE NEED?
INTERACTION

LIGHT

PLAY

NATURE

INVOLVING PEOPLE

EARLY SKETCHES...

LED TO...

BIRDS?

UNIFYING THE SQUARE

In an attempt to unify the square, make people interact and feel that they belong in the square, we developed a new urban furniture, the Urban Birds. In a fun way they will make people stop and wonder: Where did that sound come from?, Whos speaking to me?, What is that light in the tree?. We hope to cause enough curiousity and interest to make people walk around the square and discover their neighbours.

CONCLUSION:
INTERACTION

LIGHT

NATURE

PLAY

INVOLVING PEOPLE

INVOLVING PEOPLE
By letting the people from the area paint the birds and be part of the process, they will develop a relationship to the birds and therefore to the square. This personal relationship will cause people to take better care of their neighbourhood.

PLAY

Some birds copy the sounds they hear in the city. These urban birds became the inspiration for the interactive art in our project. The idea is that there will be microfones around the square hanging from the trees, and they will be connected to a bird somewhere on the square with a speaker inside it. This way people can make statements that the birds will resonate; for example nice suggestions, political statements, information about events, jokes, songs etc. At the same time it will be sort of a treasurehunt when people have to find the bird that is saying their words. This is a fun and creative way for people to interact with each other and the square.

INTERACTION

The urban bird can as well work as an artistic lamp at night time, giving a mysterious but also peaceful atmosphere to the square where they are placed. They could work either on solar power or conventional batteries. The birds sit on branches in the trees or other static objects on the square, giving the spectators something to follow around the square. The urban birds will also be painted by the users and that way be lit in many different colors.

LIGHT

NATURE
SEASONAL CHANGES - FOCUS ON THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE

The installation of discrete elements (Urban birds) in the trees, visible in summer only to the observant, shows more clearly as the seasons change.

Summer

Winter

Making the mold Cutting the decoy birds

Making the mold

Urban Birds -The making of

Cutting the plastic birds

The vacuum machine