Blueprint for a hack : leveraging informal building practices /
Over five days, some sixty residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. 'Blueprint for a Hack' aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shorta...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Actar Publishers,
[2020].
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| Summary: | Over five days, some sixty residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. 'Blueprint for a Hack' aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shortages, physical isolation and a challenging climate, outdoor public spaces in northern communities remain largely undesigned and underused. These "in-between" spaces are strewn with stuff. Most housing and civic buildings in the communities emerge from and stand like physical markers of Euro-Canadian values. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has begun a discourse on design in northern Canadian communities, but discussions continue to dwell on housing and civic buildings. A strong need exists to open conversations about design and the public realm in northern villages, which this project tries to address, creating a unique experience in which northern and southern groups could apply a "hacking mindset" to reimagine community spaces. |
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| Physical Description: | 174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1948765411 9781948765411 |