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aUPA Kit

aUPA Project

[Parenting-friendly pop-up public spaces]

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Project funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation that launched the Urban95Challenge, an initiative that works to promote the well-being of young children in cities from the prenatal period up to the age of 5.

May - December/2.017

 

Facilitate and enhance child rearing beyond the domestic sphere and personal networks by developing a new typology of outdoor facilities designed to engage children and their caregivers in quality experiences in public spaces.

 

The project seeks to alleviate the lack of quality public spaces that allow for the expansion of nurturing spaces outside the home, which are useful as physical support for daily life activities, allowing for collective care and socialization and at the same time fostering bonds of mutual help. Facilitating proximity resources, public places close to home, on a neighborhood scale, to distances easily reachable on foot (300mtrs. approx.) for people in a special situation: infants, pregnant women, people carrying a child, elderly, disabled, etc.

 

In contrast, currently in Tucumán there are about 1200 properties, including vacant lots and abandoned buildings, that could be transformed, at least temporarily, into quality spatial resources that respond to the above-mentioned deficiencies: the urban voids.

 

Faced with this scenario, a new typology of temporary public space is proposed that offers the possibility of "self-managing" a parenting-friendly space thanks to a collection of pop-up urban furniture that can disappear and reappear in different points of a neighborhood, instantly transforming any urban void into a place for child-rearing. A comfortable space where and when the caregivers want it, including "autonomy" as an added value. 

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This project is supported by three pillars:

 

01_The Temporary-Use approach for Urban Voids as public space

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02_The DIY Parenting friendly Pop-Up Urban Furniture production [aUPA Kits]

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03_The Parenting supporting networks generation

 

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Urban Void + aUPA Kit + Parenting Supporting Networks

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aUPA Space

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#CityandChildhood

#TemporaryPublicSpace

#UrbanismandGender

#CityandCare

#PedestrianMobility

#Placemaking

#TacticalUrbanism

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Bernard van Leer Foundation_Urban95

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