The aim of the event is to develop micro projects activating the site during the period separating the current state of the site and the time when all the buildings will be built.What does motivate the uses of the city beside expensive programs trying to set a city on the world map (Dream of the Bilbao effect, wish to have skyscrapers…).
The soul of a district is not only the result of its structure/architecture but also the way people uses the unplanned fragments and how they do appropriate a territory. Architects/artists/users may reveal potentials of a place by creating low-cost temporary installations. By revealing its potential the site is no longer seen as a finished product but as a ground were life and activity may grow.
In that perspective the architect/artist/user takes the role of a gardener planting seeds for the future.
