DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-904-4-0268

SMALL-SCALE INVASIVE INTERVENTIONS AS IMPULSES FOR THE REACTIVATION OF FORGOTTEN URBAN SPACES

Miroslav Čibik, Katarína Jankechová

The term "invasive", which the presented research introduces in connection with urban interventions, is perceived mostly negatively by experts and the general public. Especially if a non-native species has an adverse impact on the native territory. This is not quite the case if such short-term invasive interventions appear within urban structures. Then they are notably important and valuable for the city. Many times, they stimulate the activation of communities, warn, increase interest in the site and turn passers-by into observers and later into users. The most important is that the short-term interventions work as social experiments, where passers-by are interacting with the installation, each of them reacts differently and at least force themselves to think about the specific space. The presented article focuses on small-scale interventions that have been displaced or introduced into the environment of forgotten dysfunctional spaces. To places where limited or regulated development is recognised or where the implementation of characteristic urban elements is impossible and a liveable public space with public activities does not usually arise here. The contribution illustrates the possible forms of invasive interventions on the example of concrete realisations from practice. Based on available methods verified in practice through qualitative and quantitative parameters, the article also focuses on evaluation and comparison of such interventions verified and adopted by users, where the result is a set of successful stories.

Keywords: interventions, activation, recreation, host structure, small-scale architecture

pages: 268-272, Published: 2023, online: 2023