2002 New
York
2003 Roma, the eternal city: Messaggerie Musicali.
After that, we all know what a flash mob is.
Give a meeting point on an internet
platform. Assemble a group of people in a public space with a common goal to
practice an action. After that the trick is done. A thousand of human beings
meeting in the same time in the same place, bringing an action in a place and
than something happens. Something different from the ordinary life.
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The first idea for a flash mob comes easy during
an ordinary day. (improveverywhere.com)
Everyone can organise it, just give some minute
to make an appointment on a social platform. The meeting point is commonly a
public space where is easy for people to interact each other. When it happens, that
place becomes a catalyst of emotions. Surprise, happiness, fear, scare,
enthusiasm, participation and many other feelings all together in a place.
But what could happen when is not related to a
public space, but to an abandoned space? It could be more and more interesting.
People that do not know each other and just give the action away. In L’Aquila
A flash mob could be just the starting point to improve cities.
Every city has a dead place, a 'junkspace' that need to be revitalised and need to be
transformed. Transform the ruins in a
possible living place, sharing the energy to reactivate abandoned buildings,
is the aim of impossibleliving.com
a global
community, born to give new life to abandoned buildings.
The steps that they suggest in order to do that, is easy:
-build a worldwide database of abandoned buildings
-provide tools and knowledge to help the users start rescue projects
-connect professionals to help on the design process
-find money to make these projects become real.
The secret is to be a social network that works together.
Feeling the sense of the community and having the will to realize a better
place to live. In other words, being like a ‘rave community’ in order to squat
abandoned places and make something better for the community itself.
The Putnam Triangle plaza
in Brooklyn is an example of what can happen when people take care about the place they live in. The spirit of the neighbourhood
comes out. (faballiance.org)
Open cities, where all the wishes
come true, are more than welcome in that time where the resources seem to run
out more and more. Maybe the resources
are inside our ideas and our ability to be a community, because in the established fact:
people have the power.
