This document summarizes plans for a temporary urbanism project in Dame Court, Dublin. The project aims to activate the underused public space through temporary interventions informed by research. A team will work with local businesses and the city to [1] develop a platform for citizen-led initiatives, [2] test ideas through minimal interventions, and [3] use lessons learned to incrementally improve the street. Initial proposals include restricting vehicle access, adding chairs, focusing on art, or animating building facades. The team proposes managing the process through a steering group to oversee a structured program of measured interventions.

1. Temporary City - Summer Charrette
Kevin O'Sullivan, Shane Waring, Gerry Farrell, Igor
Gocur, Blaithin Quinn, Nuala Flood, Simon Canz,
Dave Andrews

2. Temporary City - Summer Charrette
+ Dame Court selected as a Study Site to apply
theories and outcomes of my initial research
+ Research Theme: Temporary Urbanism- the
activation of urban space through temporary
interventions and low cost infrastructure
improvements
+ How Temporary Urbanism can be leveraged
as a strategic component of urban planning, and
leveraged as a platform for citizen and business
initiatives
+ Temporary City Team's work will inform my
research project

3. Map of Local Districts & Quarters
Dame Court is part of Dame District, not specifically
addressed in Grafton St. Quarter Public Realm
Plan, and is outside of the Creative Quarter.
Creative
Quarter
Grafton St.
Quarter
Dame
District

4. Specific Study Site - Dame Court
SouthGreatGeorgesStreet
Exchequer Street
Dame Lane
DameCourt

5. Specific Study Site - Dame Court
SouthGreatGeorgesStreet
Exchequer Street
Dame Lane
DameCourt
+ Businesses have collaborated to identify common
needs and develop a vision for the street
+ Dublin City BID helped develop an Area Action
Plan
+ Site chosen because: pre-existing needs,
familiarity with temporary interventions,
collaborative business model in place, and an
expressed interest by DCC to use temporary
interventions in area

6. Definitions - Temporary Urbanism
+ Any intervention in the public realm that is not
permanent - one that typically seeks to inform the
function or perception of the public realm
+ StreetFeast, Clarendon St., Fade St., Parklet,
Guerrila bike lanes
+ Can be Top-Down or Bottom-up

7. Temporary City Vision
+ We aim to redefine the approach to both the
management and the use of public space (Shared
Vision, Interactive and Engaging Spaces)
+ We are looking at the middleground where the
street is a platform for local, site-specific initiatives
+ The strategic application of this through a
measured process, that will inform the eventual and
on going development of the street

8. Temporary City Vision
+ Working towards developing a model for
strategically-applied Temporary Urbanism
+ Dame Court as pilot site to test:
- the definition of strategically-applied Temporary
Urbanism
- the management structures we assume are
required
- the potential tools or ideas we think could
happen

9. Temporary Urbanism - A Platform
+ Develop a Platform that citizens, businesses, and
DCC can use to generate and trial new ideas within
the public realm
+ Platform has 2 layers:
- A Steering Group that systematically steers and
promotes possibilities
- In the case of Dame Court, it is the defined
approach to intervening on the street

10. The Steering Group
+ A Stewardship process that oversees a structured
program of interventions
+ An on-the-ground ambassador (a local champion)
to manage the execution of the program, make and
nurture links with stockholders, and see projects
through
+ This is guided by an over arching set of deals
(Mission Statement)
+ Uses a transparent measurement structure to
guide what is done and how it is done

11. Steering Group - Mission Statement
+ To steer and promote possibilities for development
within the public realm.
+ This is achieved by forming an understanding
of the nature of a specific street, district, or
neighbourhood.
+ This is applied through a structured platform that
requests new ideas and initiatives, transparently
prioritises the projects, manages the executinio of
them
+ This is systematically assessed through a
measured, transparent process
+ Each intervention is considered a Minimal Viable
Product-the smallest viable intervention that can
test the efficacy of the overall project as well as the
specific intervention
+ Each is measured and lessons are cycled back
into the overall project.
+ The Steering Group itself is an MVP

12. Possible Steering Group Members
+ Representatives from key stake holders:
DCC Rep
Dublin City BID Rep
Local Business Rep
Local Citizen Rep
Community Artist
Local Built Environment Practitioner
Researcher/Student
+ Characteristics of the Ambassador:
Knowledge of city and city mechanisms
Knowledge of street, district, or neighbourhood
Local Citizen

13. Steering Group - Process Map
NEEDS
PLATFORM
STREET
CITIZEN/
BUSINESS

14. The Street - The Vision
+ Mobilise a platform for citizen, business, and DCC
initiatives
+ Use Temporary Urbanism as an iterative,
measured process that informs the ongoing
development of the street
+ Ensure all interventions and development follows
a set of stated principles and intentions:
The platform is a catalyst
It is an outlet for user generated initiatives
It seeks a rebalancing of the street
It promotes a flexible approach to street
revitalisation
It is iterative, accepts failure, and applies lessons

15. The Street - Temporary Interventions
+ Each intervention is considered a MVP (Minimal
Viable Product)
+ These are Built, Measured, and Learned from
+ They are planned by identifying what we want to
learn, how we are going to measure, resulting in
what it is to be built
+ Each intervention informs how and what type of
intervention happens within the space and informs
the ongoing, incremental development of the street
+ They test the very nature of the project itself
BUILD
MEASURE
LEARN
LEARN
MEASURE
BUILD
How it Happens
How it is Designed

16. The Nature of the Street
+ It feels like:
Heavy use at opposite ends of street, with a
neglected core
Hidden away, secluded, quiet, slows you down,
feels like you've discovered it
+ We seek to:
Cultivate a "meaningful" experience
Use an assets based approach to drive future
proposals
Trial new ideas, celebrate failure, and promote
citizen manipulation of the built environment

17. The Street - 5 Possible Initial Ideas
+ Close Street to all vehicle traffic
+ Curtail car traffic
+ 100 movable chairs placed in central core area
+ Art focus in central core
+ Animate building facades in central core

18. Possible Ideas

19. Temporary City Conclusions
+ Identified limitations to previous examples of
Temporary Urbanism or its possible potential
+ Proposed a new model for management of the
public realm and a new way for people to use and
engage with it
+ We propose a Steering Group with a clear mission
and transparent measurement process
+ Each intervention informs the next as well as the
overall project itself
+ It is in response to real, established needs, is
within context, and responsive to the nature of the
site
+ It is achievable and can be trailed immediately