Our project began as an attempt to get students to think differently about creativity, as a tool to engage a condition as rich and complex as public space. We made connections, developed collaborative relationships, inspired ourselves to action and experimented with alternative methodologies for intervention in the city. We put the idea of research as practice to the test as an opportunity to learn new ways of leveraging creative logics, knowledge and process. We wanted to fail, and fail quickly, so that the boundaries and obstacles to producing meaningful city spaces became more clear, so that we have a direction and goals for how to operate in the future. Our ideas and projects have been presented to the city of Copenhagen as an example of how temporary work can yield fruitful data, both empirical and non-empirical. We initiated an important dialog which will continue as long as people have an interest in making positive changes in their surroundings.
Our very special thanks to all of our contributors, collaborators, friends and contacts, especially to our main collaborators Onesto Mong who made this possible. The project has spawned next year’s event, a symposium of our colleagues and a series of workshops concerned with how we become activists of good ideas in the places we live.
