With this project, we tried to draw attention to the green areas within the city centre of Ljubljana as well as explore their role and significance today. Ljubljana’s parks are one of the city’s great potentials, unfortunately most of them in central town do not meet modern European park standards – people rarely use them, because they lack park equipment, there is no playground equipment, they are not properly maintained and cleaned, dog excrements are a frequent nuisance, etc.
We chose the parks in the strict centre of Ljubljana. With our installations, we tried to open to their visitors the numerous possibilities that they offer and attract to them the citizens of Ljubljana as well as the tourists. For the time of the project, we furnished the parks with hanging mats, swings, platforms where one could sit or play, we set up a living room and furnish some trees with treehouses.
We concluded the project with a discussion on the kind of parks that we need in Ljubljana. We invited experts from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning and sociology.
Ljubljana • Co-authors: Žiga Testen (visual image), Špela Verbič-Miklič (public relations), Maja Vardjan (moderator of the round table discussion) • 2005