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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Contact: Julie Manière<BR>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:julie.maniere@dedale.info">julie.maniere@dedale.info</A><BR>Phone:
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Address:<BR>Dedale<BR>23 rue Olivier Métra<BR>75020
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Info:<BR>September 17th & 18th,
2010</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PARK(ing) Day 2010 // Art and nature in public
space | Open call for participation </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Paris<BR>Friday | Saturday | September 17th - 18th
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Most of big cities’ outdoor urban space is
dedicated to private vehicles, while only a fraction of that land is allocated
to open space for people. Is that the city we want for tomorrow?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PARK(ing) Day, a one-day worldwide event organized
in more than 140 cities around the world, invites citizens, artists and
activists to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)”
spaces: temporary public parks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Relying on social networks, the event is launched
on a large scale in France, in connection with SmartCity, an international art
production and research programme on the theme of the intelligent city,
connected, sustainable and creative.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Why?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To imagine creative and playful ways to re
appropriate public open space.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To question the position of nature and citizens in
the city</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To create alternative sustainable spaces for
commitment, new social interactions, generosity and playfulness.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Where?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In Paris, in France and in 140 cities around the
world, express your creativity and imagine original parenthesis to concrete
spaces, on the 17th and 18th of September 2010.<BR>Some ideas: a gardening
class, a ping-pong competition, an ephemeral art installation, a free lemonade
stand, an open poetry reading, a mini urban farm, a garden, a playground, a
picnic area…</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sign up on the website <A
href="http://www.parkingday.fr">www.parkingday.fr</A> and follow the
manual!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Programme…</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Many art installations and activities are scheduled
these days in Paris’ streets. Among the most surprising, you will find a new
project by Rebar, the American collective who created PARK(ing) Day in
2005.<BR>The concept of this project is to create a mobile, public participatory
art piece that inspires urban residents to re-imagine the way that we create and
occupy public space. This original personal public space can be transported by
bicycle, and can become temporary parks whenever needed…</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Further information: <A
href="http://www.parkingday.fr">www.parkingday.fr</A>
<BR>Facebook<BR>Twitter<BR>More : <A
href="http://www.smartcity.fr">www.smartcity.fr</A> | <A
href="http://www.smartcityblog.fr">www.smartcityblog.fr</A> | <A
href="http://www.dedale.info">www.dedale.info</A> | <A
href="http://www.parkingday.org">www.parkingday.org</A><BR>The non-profit
organization Dedale is also looking for volunteers, to help with the
implementation of the event PARK(ing) Day in Paris.<BR>Further information
here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Rebar Group is an interdisciplinary studio from San Francisco,
operating at the intersection of art, design and activism. Their work
encompasses visual and conceptual public art, landscape design, urban
intervention, temporary performance installation, digital media and print
design. Rebar remixes the ordinary, repurposes the ubiquitous and restructures
the fabric of the urban environment by exposing hidden assumptions and shared
meanings embedded in the everyday experience of the built world.</DIV>
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