Reactivating Urban Voids Through Sensory and Pop-Up Design

Abstract

This chapter reflects on the implementation of pop-up architecture and sensory gardens made with waste reuse in brownfields. The selected experiments, MOBILELAND© (2014-2016) and DOT TO DOT© (2017 onwards), investigate waste reuse as pop-up sensory reactivation of gap sites in Glasgow. Experiments explore constructive sensibilities embedded in material sensory by interlinking tangible place-making, sensory gardens, eco-design, and self-build solutions in public spaces. The cases underline design as sensory medium to effectively co-develop innovative environmental changes, societal challenges, and co-creation, including experiential outdoor learning and public engagement, throughout the reuse of waste applied in remaking by testing/piloting the C2C theoretical framework. Trials apply the principles of temporariness, portability, and sensory of waste as social value and material culture in cities. These live projects explore constructional and somatic sensibilities and critically investigate the cultural embodiment of material sensory by remaking.

Preserving identity while reorganizing urban spaces

“…The joint creative activity of the participants in the process influences their behaviorthey become not just users, but active citizens. During active participation, there is a process of actualization of the intangible cultural heritage, its return to the living socio-cultural environment [22,23]. At the same time, temporary architectural structures are part of the ongoing socio-cultural processes and contribute to the transformation of the urban environment, creating conditions for a comfortable formation of the environment.…”