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Street Mosaic Workshop
Street Mosaic workshop is one of the participatory art initiatives developed and launched by Laimikis.lt in the wooden neighbourhood of Šnipiškės (Vilnius) in May 2013. It’s an open initiative supported by residents of the neighbourhood, who donate ceramic tiles and participate in creating mosaic artworks. In just a month, two streets of Šnipiškės were touched…
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Urban villages at Bi-city biennale of urbanism / architecture
Laimikis Lab is taking part in Bi-City Biennale on Urbanism / Architecture in Shenzhen / Hong Kong which opened at the end of December 2017. This time the topic of the Biennale is “Cities Grow in Difference”, and one of the fields is “Urban Villages”. By the invitation of the curatorial team, we presented an…
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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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Arts-based research and placemaking in Šnipiškės (timeline)
Our placemaking journey in the historic Šnipiškės neighbourhood started in 2012. The arts-based approach is our primary method, which means that we involve residents in cooperative actions during the research stage, seeking to contribute to the local well-being. We foster networks of mutual help by providing and administrating local communication tools, platforms and formats. We…
