Using Temporary Interventions to Activate Urban Wastelands with Gilly Karjevsky | reSITE City Talks

Gilly Karjevsky talks about the potential of urban wastelands as sites of public-facing urban intervention. Karjevsky notes that all urban areas are facing similar challenges in a globalized era, but that because they respond to them in their own unique ways, urban interventions must focus on the specific communities that they are occurring in. Rather than top-down massive infrastructural projects, Karjevsky hopes for urban infrastructural planning that can be thought of on a human scale.

Gilly Karjevsky is a Berlin-based independent artist and curator. She is the Co-director of ‘72 Hour Urban Action’ — an international real-time architecture competition that began in 2010 — with projects recently completed in Germany, Denmark, Italy, and Turkey.

AP was presented at reSITE In/Visible City 2017 and is a collaboration between Kerem Halbrecht, Gilly Karjevsky (co-directors, 72 Hour Urban Action), and Jennifer Aksu, Anna Hentschel, and Sebastian Quack (Invisible Playground), expanding on the discipline of Gameful Architecture.

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