Places Connecting People

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• Places Connecting People

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PrieStoryPublic Spaces Program

• Launched in 2005
• Helps to create public spaces, proposed, built
  and maintained by local citizens
• Provides education, technical assistance and
  finances (5-8000 EUR)
• Offers practical assistance in creation or
  reconstruction of public space with visible
  change

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Thematic focus

• Parks
• Playgrounds
• Market places and riverbanks
• Small squares
• Open spaces between blocks of flats
• Small projects with involvement of volunteers and
  reasonable scale for local sponsors

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Public Participation

• Key program features
• Planning
• Project Elaboration
• Realization
• Each project involves
• First planning meeting
• Design by architect
• Second planning meeting
• Realization
• Opening ceremony ?

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Planning Meetings Community is the Expert

• Planning meetings enable different public groups
  to get involved
• Children and young people are able to not only
  define problems but also to propose solutions and
  change
• Role of the architect sensitive corrections
  (e.g. safety) and processing of the ideas of
  public

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PrieStory 2005

• ilina an unused space behind the public
  library turned to an open air reading park
• Zvolen a children playground enlarged to a
  place also for teenagers and elderly people
• Nitra revitalization of an unused former
  industrial area into a playground for children
• BratislavaPetralka - revitalization of a
  devastated playground (active participation of a
  homeless community)?
• Levice improvement of a space in front of the
  Mother Center Magic garden

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Planning Meeting ilina (2005)?
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Bratislava Petralka, 2005(Before and After)?

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Planting at Nitra (2005)?
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The Public Library, ilina, 2005(Before and
After)?
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PrieStory 2006

• Pezinok - improvement of an abandoned kinder
  garden, transformation into a relax space for
  inhabitants of the surrounding houses
• Kemarok changing of an unused playground into
  a public space serving to the kinder garden at
  the Mother Center as well as to the broad public
• Bratislava Rusovce changing of an unused area
  in the middle of the village into a rest-area in
  style of Roman parks
• Nové Zámky revitalization of the neighborhood
  area to a park and a playground

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Opening of the Grinava Garden, Pezinok (2006)?
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Roman Park, Bratislava, 2006 (Before and After)?
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PrieStory 2007

• Pruské renewal of an abandoned former English
  park with an orangery
• Rimavská Sobota revitalization of an open area
  in the neighbourhood to a park and a playground
• Stakcínska Roztoka a place in the middle of the
  village near the school was transformed into a
  space with zones for various public groups
• Rajec a former parish garden was changed to an
  educational garden with various tree species and
  serves as a pleasant meeting place

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Stakcínska Roztoka, 2007 (Before and After)?
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Rajec village, 2007 (Before and After)?
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PrieStory 2008

• A new focus Places supporting communication
• Trstená a place near Youth centre will develop
  into a relax space for inhabitants and visitors
• Banská Bystrica revitalization of an open
  danger area in the neighbourhood to a playground
  and place for various public groups
• Kalná Roztoka changing of an unused area in the
  middle of the village into a space with zones for
  meetings
• Tesáre transforming an area in the middle of
  the village near the school to a playground and
  park
• Pohorelá build a new sguare in the middle of
  the village

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From Planning Meetings, 2008
Trstená city
Pohorelá village
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Where we are

• Knowledge and experience gained
• Reasonable number of successful projects
  implemented
• Critical mass of people (administration,
  experts/architects, public activists)? involved
• Interest of the experts in the program
  methodology gained

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Ekopolis FoundationSlovak Environmental
Partnership

• Address
• Nadácia Ekopolis
• Komenského 21
• 974 01 Banská Bystrica
• Slovakia
• Tel. [phone]
• Email ekopolis_at_ekopolis.sk
• www.ekopolis.sk
• www.priestory.sk
• Program Manager
• Martina Paulíková, paulikova_at_ekopolis.sk