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WEB_0 – Street Blog
Web_0 is an ironical concept of bringing Internet communication tools into the off-line and initiating communication on the city streets with passers-by on the base of familiar forms, such as blogs, flickr, youtube, made of wood and paper. Being installed in the street, these elements transform the place into a playground and discussion platform. Web_0…
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Urban villages at Bi-city biennale of urbanism / architecture
The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture curators have invited the Laimikis team to contribute to this massive event with the artworks and research dedicated to the wooden Šnipiškės. The Biennale takes place in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and this year, the topic is “Cities Grow in Difference”. The Shenzhen part of the Biennale focuses…
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Lucky catch
ENG Since 2oo7 o3 o7 we develop “Street lucky catch” photo project: for us “lucky catch” is people on the streets of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda (Lithuania) mostly, but we are glad to include from other towns (and other countries) in it. We see citizens as experts of the city. Unlike most of street fashion…
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Urbingo – urban game
URBINGO is an urban orientation game and alternative guide to the changing neighbourhoods. It consists of: • illustrated map • visual cards with the neighbourhood’s elements • text cards with the historical facts and notes. This game was developed as a matrix for collecting and arranging neighbourhood stories and changing material culture, turning it into…
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Explore Šnipiškės with Urbingo!
Monotonectally pursue backward-compatible ideas without empowered imperatives. Interactively predominate low-risk high-yield ROI rather than adaptive e-tailers. Progressively morph standardized value vis-a-vis just in time portals. Quickly repurpose ethical vortals rather than technically sound systems. Intrinsicly formulate.
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Co-design workshops: open code urban furniture (ECF)
Title: Open code urban furniture, co-design workshop This initiative is part of a bigger networking project, “Public Space Makers”. Grantee of ECF Design & Research Grant: Jekaterina Lavrinec (Laimikis.lt). Associated partners: Noel Hatch (European Alternatives, UK), Paco Gonzalez (RadarQ, Spain). During the project, co-design workshops are run in London, Barcelona, and Vilnius in cooperation with the…
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Action research and placemaking in Šnipiškės (timeline)
Our placemaking journey and action-based research in the historic Šnipiškės neighbourhood started in 2012 and has already spanned a decade. The process embraces the following stages: Desk-research & field research » Creative communication and placemaking tools » Participatory design-based research and arts-based research » Cooperatively developed cultural routes, developed public space (Dragon’s field), adjusted image…
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Citizen participation in urban governance (CBSS)
Project title: Citizen Participation in Urban Governance Partners: Minsk Urban Platform (leader), Laboratory for Urban Games and Research “Laimikis.lt”. Audiences of the project: urban activists, practitioners, and experts working in participatory planning in Belarus and the Baltic Sea Region. Inhabitants of the districts of multistore houses in Minsk. Users of the public spaces in Vilnius.…
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Visual Identity Grid for Place Branding
Visual Identity Grid is a format developed by the Laimikis.lt team for converting the materials and findings accumulated during the research of the identity of place (genius loci) to visual communication. We developed and tested it while exploring Visaginas’ visual identity in 2017. Our methodology for developing a visual identity set for the place includes lots…
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Placemaking toolbox for neighbourhoods. Šnipiškės case.
A set of tools and methods for inclusive neighbourhood regeneration was developed for the historical Šnipiškės neighbourhood (Vilnius) and launched in cooperation with its residents in 2o12-2o15. However, we have found that it can be adapted to various urban and rural contexts. This set of tools and methods aims to develop and strengthen the local…
