Over summer in Hobart it was amazing to see how people adapt so quickly to change and colonise the closed streets into wonderful people places. Hobart City Council provided synthetic turf on the road pavement and people came with friends and enjoyed the urban spaces giving a second life to the road changing it to a temporary park.
Hobart was full of people enjoying the city, cars restricted away from the waterfront and the community coming out in great numbers to play.
If we could make our streets locally in the neighbourhood as well as in our business centres much more family friendly I am confident that we would all feel so much better as we go about our daily tasks!
Castray Esplanade during the Taste Festival in Hobart, food wine and people and the magic of flexible space happens.....
Public art, events and exhibitions attract us to our cities, in Sydney Anish Kapoor raised our awareness about visual interpretation within the city by placing a large disk outside the Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay, looking on the reverse one was able to visualise something amazing!
You can design a space and hope people will enjoy that space. The success of a space is people they must be attracted to it and use it and so add joy and value by their activity.
People attract people, we all like to watch and like to promenade to join in and be apart of the community.
One mans dream has put Hobart and Tasmania on the international stage, we are all benefitting from that investment, now lets try and get the MONA factor working in our regional areas, our neighbourhoods and our local spaces and places
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