Let's Courtyard!
workshop
2024
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
Vilnius, Lithuania
(In collaboration with Madli Kaljuste)
The workshop Let's Courtyard! initiated together with Architecture Students’ Club (ASK) delved into a spatial activist role by physically inhabiting a courtyard of the Vilnius Tech Faculty of Architecture in Vilnius, that is semi-public but currently laid out in concrete tiles and taken up by cars. The workshop tackled the themes of circularity, secondary use and biodiversity by gathering used materials and building communal objects in the courtyard as well as planting greenery.
The project resulted in an open event where community of the faculty and city dwellers were invited to enjoy the ‘commoned’ courtyard by introducing the new objects - tables, chairs and plant pots created from reused materials. The created objects stayed as a gift to the courtyard prompting the future use of the space as an open common space. Together with the participants of the workshop we read and discussed texts, observed examples of similar actions introduced by a landscape architect based between Paris and Helsinki Ella Prokkola, by architect and designer based in the Hague Luka Smišek and artists Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonai based in Boston. Together we also constructed the objects and planted herbal plants.