The document discusses several public space design projects that promote diversity and public participation. It describes Superkilen, a park in Copenhagen containing objects from around the world selected by community members to represent different cultures. The park acts as a contemporary urban version of a universal garden, bringing people together. It also cites Bjarke Ingels, who led the Superkilen design, saying the project used public participation as the driving force rather than preconceived ideas, creating a park designed by and for the people. Several other projects focusing on regeneration and representing communities are also briefly mentioned.

1. On the Road
About the design and
representation of public
space
Marialuisa Palumbo – Auburn Lectures on the City – University of Arkansas Rome Center

2. ma0/emmeazero, La Maison du Peuple,
competition for the public spaces of the Eaux
Vives Ceva Station, Geneve, 2010

16. BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
+ Supeflex + Topotek1, Superkilen,
Copenhagen,
2011-2012

18. Superkilen is a park that supports diversity. It is a world
exhibition of furniture and everyday objects from all over the
world, including benches, lampposts, trash cans and plants –
requisites that every contemporary park should include and
that the future visitors of the park have helped to select.
Superkilen reattributes motifs from garden history. In the
garden, the translocation of an ideal, the reproduction of
another place, such as a far off landscape, is a common
theme through time. As the Chinese reference the mountain
ranges with the miniature rocks, the Japanese the ocean with
their rippled gravel, or how the Greek ruins are showcased as
replicas in the English gardens. Superkilen is a contemporary,
urban version of a universal garden.

28. “Rather than a public outreach process
towards the lowest common
denominator or a politically correct post
rationalization of preconceived ideas
navigated around any potential public
resistance – we proposed public
participation as the driving force of the
design leading towards the maximum
freedom of expression. by transforming
public procedure into proactive
proposition we curated a park for the
people by the people – peer to peer
design – literally implemented.”
Bjarke Ingels

38. Stefano Boeri Architetti,
Tirana 030 – a Kaleidoscopic Metropolis,
2016

48. InarchLazio + Massimo Galletta Architetto,
Urban regeneration of via del Tritone,
Rome, 2017

58. Anna Sardi, La Via-Museo, Progetto di un
Antiquarium Ipogeo per via dei Fori Imperiali,
2017