ACTIVE ORNAMENT

2020

Lindsay Harkema

Honorable Mention, Fairy Tales Competition

This architectural fiction projects a possible future for Privately Owned Public Space, a conventional urban typology and incentive zoning practice, as a more mutually beneficial shared infrastructure. The private building volumes granted in exchange for the public spaces are re-imagined as dynamic and publicly accessible 'energy volumes'. 

This narrative builds on ongoing research and speculation about POPS as spaces of exception that evade categorical distinction and defy binary absolutes.

Read the full text on the Blank Space Fairy Tales Winners 2020 website.