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We asked lots of children what games they like to play in the park... they responded saying that they wanted to play imaginary games, have fun, climb things, play hide and seek, dance and play in the magical, invisible, secret world of their own wild imaginations. Let’s work togheter with the children, keeping in mind our idea of sustainability: we do not want to carry on making new things when we can use what we already have to create fun and games.
So let’s play a new game inspired by the imagination, that will familiarise us with the objects and principles that we need when striving for a more eco-friendly world. Many workshops we have done for free in order to try and find the best ways of saving money and wasting less energy and time. And finally here we have it: the first playground designed by and created for children. It was a complete joint effort, just how it should be.
Daniele Pario Perra is a relational artist, researcher and designer engaged in exhibitions, research projects and teaching. His work ranges across different disciplines: art, design, sociology, anthropology, architecture and geopolitics. For some years now he has been exploring spontaneous creativity, cultural trends and patterns of urban development in a constant relationship between material culture and symbolic heritage. In 2001 he started the Low-cost Design database, which contains over 7000 photographs of the transformations of objects and public spaces in Europe and around the Mediterranean, published in two volumes by Silvana Editoriale. Low-cost Design is also a travelling exhibition with more 100 objects worldwide collected starting from the same year. Daniele Pario Perra studied the performances and rituals of street trading in Sicily in the "Economic Borders" project. He investigated spontaneous communication in various European cities with the "Fresco Removals" format, teaching people, in real urban actions, how to store notable examples of wall writing and graffiti before their cancellation. His first monograph, Politics Poiesis, was published in 2005: it contains a long list of ideas, stimuli and projects devoted to contemporary art in urban contexts.
Daniele Pario Perra has taught at the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome, at the Delft University of Technology, at the Milan Polytechnic and at the Denver Univeristy in Colorado. His workshops – Fantasy Saves the Planning, Art Shakes the Politics, Anarchetiquette/ Fresco Urban Removals, Design on the Cheap and Politics Poiesis – have many editions in major European cities. Between 2000 and 2010 he exhibited works, devised urban actions and coordinated projects between Rome, Milan, Turin, Sarajevo, Barcelona, Chicago, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, Bern, Paris, Marseille, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Ljubljana, Denver, Belgrade, Budapest and London.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Cost_Design
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele_Pario_Perra
