{"id":990,"date":"2019-09-18T19:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=990"},"modified":"2019-09-23T02:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T02:13:15","slug":"turning-brussels-esplanade-into-a-public-social-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/18\/turning-brussels-esplanade-into-a-public-social-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Brussels&#8217; Esplanade Into a Public, Social Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">by City3, Atelier Starzak Strebicki, and Laura Muyldermans, Brussels, Germany, 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/architecture\/city3-atelier-starzak-strebicki-laura-muyldermans-constellations-brussels-08-17-2017\/\">https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/architecture\/city3-atelier-starzak-strebicki-laura-muyldermans-constellations-brussels-08-17-2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1_1502882205_cf1c166e58c5c880be360f0538f878ff.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1_1502882205_cf1c166e58c5c880be360f0538f878ff.jpg 818w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1_1502882205_cf1c166e58c5c880be360f0538f878ff-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1_1502882205_cf1c166e58c5c880be360f0538f878ff-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1_1502882205_cf1c166e58c5c880be360f0538f878ff-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1_1502882205_cf1c166e58c5c880be360f0538f878ff-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In spring 2016, the European Parliament (EP) commissioned a design for temporary creative&nbsp;street furniture&nbsp;and greenery for the esplanade solidarno\u015b\u0107 1980, the main thoroughfare that links the different buildings of the parliament campus in Brussels.&nbsp;with \u2018constellations\u2019, instead of designing temporary furniture, city3 in collaboration with&nbsp;atelier Starzak Strebicki&nbsp;and Laura Muyldermans proposed the EP to invest in a set of 100 chairs, 10 tables, and 50 plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The designers&nbsp;turned the vast space into a fruitful scene in which the chairs and tables and the people using them become the actors.<\/li><li>The public interacts with the furniture as a means of anonymous social interaction<\/li><li>The&nbsp;Esplanade becomes a convivial, people-oriented and friendly public space<\/li><li>The installation aims to&nbsp;study the different ways the public interacts with the furniture and its surroundings<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_9_1502882205_eeece68f8961ac185002314b3a4d8001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_9_1502882205_eeece68f8961ac185002314b3a4d8001.jpg 818w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_9_1502882205_eeece68f8961ac185002314b3a4d8001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_9_1502882205_eeece68f8961ac185002314b3a4d8001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_9_1502882205_eeece68f8961ac185002314b3a4d8001-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_9_1502882205_eeece68f8961ac185002314b3a4d8001-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This artwork is beneficial to my research because it shows a way to create anonymous social interaction. This idea could be applied to my research by designing a way to engage with another using various products such as furniture. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by City3, Atelier Starzak Strebicki, and Laura Muyldermans, Brussels, Germany, 2016 https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/architecture\/city3-atelier-starzak-strebicki-laura-muyldermans-constellations-brussels-08-17-2017\/ In spring 2016, the European Parliament (EP) commissioned a design for temporary creative&nbsp;street furniture&nbsp;and greenery for the esplanade solidarno\u015b\u0107 1980, the main thoroughfare that links the different buildings of the parliament campus in Brussels.&nbsp;with \u2018constellations\u2019, instead of designing temporary furniture, city3 in collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arts-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}