COMMON’S PLAYGROUND,Ege Balcıl

Lincoln’s Inn Fields is one of the main public square in London.This suggestion is designed by Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez and Nelly E. Estevez.Before explaining this project,there are some specific points about this area.Around the Lincoln’s Inn Fields,the population is generated by lower-income families.In some festivals and also during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,Muslim attend the Fields at sunset to feed the local homeless.These people queue for a long time.They have their meal seated on the sidewalk and rarely come inside the park.This Project seeks to make more visible.Lincoln Inn Fields is an extraordinary public asset to enhance a practise of social care,much needed in this times of crisis and increasing inequalities in the city.I am interested in this Project because of its concept.The aim is reimaginig the area as a space to raise awareness and engagement to transform it from a public square to common square.Their each module is made of recycled enduring plastic, as a low-cost and light material. Rather than providing furniture to the park per se, these cubes seek to raise awareness in the users of this place about people in need.However, it is not a permanent solution for homeless people.We need more well designed projects which can protect them against the rain,snow and also should protect from the people’s looking.The projects should make us be aware of their life.There is some good examples like:

Krzysztof Wodiczko,who is an industrial designer had a good idea for homeless people. The Homeless Vehicle Project was both symbolic and useful: the artist’s first work to use a collective process to legitimize the problems of a marginal community “without legitimating the crisis of homelessness.” While the public was cautious, the operators of the vehicles took the project seriously. According to Wodiczko, “You see this in certain gestures, certain ways of behaving, speaking, dialoguing, of building up stories, narratives: the homeless become actors, orators, workers, all things which they usually are not. The idea is to let them speak and tell their own stories, to let them be legitimate actors on the urban stage.” The attention to testimony as a transformative process while still tentative in the Homeless Vehicle Project became a significant performative process in the artist’s Instruments and eventually part of the his projections as well.