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Contemporary public art and urban design practice is most often fragmented between different professions. However, there are new approaches and practices for designing cities that consider various scales (the planning scale, scale of single project in public art and urban design...) and various disciplines (artists, architects, urban planners, designers, landscape architects, engineers...).

These are multidisciplinary approaches that include complex collaboration of different design disciplines which work together on equal basis.
The PaPs project has been founded as one of the most important achievements of the workshop which took place in November 2002 within the Faculty of Architecture - University of Belgrade and the Program Percent for Art - City of New York, Department of cultural affairs. Many eminent experts and artists from Belgrade, New York and Philadelphia took part in this workshop.
 

 

Subject of this project is redefinition of urban public space use and design. With that purpose this project has been promoting multidisciplinary work of different professions and their strong collaboration with the local comunity ofn different projects in the civic realm.

International character of this project has been accomplished through active participation of domestic and foreign experts that work together with students of University of Belgrade on different projects that are of vital importance for urban quality in Belgrade.
 

 

The process of multidisciplinary design of urban public space respects the skills of professionals from complementary design disciplines working together with the purpose of initiation and realization of different projects which have considerable meaning for the city.

Hierarchy of disciplines disappears

This method is both old and new - it follows in the footsteps of Beaux Art tradition and the USA WPA method of civic design.
The tradition of urban-planning in the USA has been used as initial base for PaPs. In United States, public art is often used to energize urban design - to comment on sites in order to help one see and expirience them in new ways. Artists often collaborate with architects, landscape designers, urban designers and engineers in realization of their projects. There si also tradition in USA of community participation on projects in the civic realm. Design professionals ask the general public how they use or experience a place, what their memories and sensibilities are about an urban space and what they would like to see there.
This communication informs designers perspective and helps him design an new site or redesign an old one, without destroying the tradition or histories associated there.
 

Organizacija
 

Recipient of the PaPs project realization is Faculty of Architecture, University in Belgrade. Realization of projects has been accomplished in coordination with the Program Percent for Art - City of New York (Department of cultural affairs), and with participation of other relevant institutions and independent experts: Faculties of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry, City of Belgrade Department of Urbanism, Department of cultural affairs, eminent dramatic and other artists, architects, landscape designers, citizens...
 

 

General purpose of this project is establishing new routines into the processes of public space design through multidisciplinary approach cooperation of public art and urban design, using new methods which have been successfully applied in this area.

Except affirmation of , this project has also one very significant purpose - education of new generations of urban planners and designers which will accept and make use of this multidisciplinary approach in their future work. This project is an extraordinary opportunity for cooperation of different faculties: Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of Drama...
 

Benefiti
 

Integration of art into the process of urban planning and urban design with purpose of establishing a new frame for evaluation and improvement of public space in Belgrade;

Activating and involving local community and local authorities into the process of public space design in purpose of reaching the solutions that meet their needs and desires;

Evaluating and promotion of specific place and generating the initial database which represent the basic input for further activities;

Activation of the urban spaces with considerable potentials for cultural and historical development of the city;

Education of future public space planners and designers which will accept and make use of multidisciplinary approach in their future work.