Why | To activate an empty spot with urban temporary installations
What | Facilitation + design + communication
Where | Staatsliedenbuurt, Utrecht, the Netherlands
With | dolte
Who | For AORTA

The Staatsliedenbuurt in Utrecht is a neighbourhood in transition. Social housing from the last century have been dismantled to let room for more modern and qualitative housing. Only… the new buildings take long to come and it is now several years that there is a large empty spot in the middle of the neighbourhood. Architecture centre AORTA has had the good idea to ask few designers to imagine temporarily uses for this area with the inhabitants.

Together with a few residents, we have imagined an active path that would link the 2 separated parts of the neighbourhood and that would host different activities thought and organized by the inhabitants. The concept is called “Plug & Play”. The path changes depending of the seasons and the ideas of the citizens. Soft wooden structures can plug in and unplug to the hard path.