UpStart Collaborative Ltd is a non-profit arts collective that transforms vacant urban sites into temporary parks. Their upcoming project, called The Pop-up Park, will transform a derelict inner-city site in Dublin into a park from August 22nd to September 29th. The park will explore the potential of creativity and play to benefit social and personal well-being. It will feature areas for information, dining, learning, theatre, film screenings, art installations, and gardening activities. The goal is to demonstrate how vacant spaces can be collaboratively used by the community through creative projects.

2. UpStart Collaborative Ltd is the non-profit voluntary
arts collective which put 1000 posters of original art
during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011.
Our mission is to highlight the importance of creativity and
ingenuity when society is in need of direction and solutions,
and to emphasise the value of the arts to public life.

5. Media coverage on Upstart's previous project (February-March 2011)

6. Community
Creativity
Learning
Sustainability
Play

7. We are responding to:
Vacant Sites
Negative Rhetoric
Concrete Wastelands
Social & Societal Issues
while demonstrating the importance of
community
the arts
and creativity

8. The Pop-up Park
This summer Upstart will transform an inner-city derelict site into a
temporary park, a place to explore the full potential of creativity and
play as tools for greater social and personal well-being.
Aug 22nd - Sep 29th

9. Upstart
DCC
Local Communities
on Dominic Street
Inspire
Ethnic Groups Kids & Older
Gererational
Toolkit
Process Map
Pop-Up Park
Demonstrate potential
of : Creativity, Vacant
Spaces & Collaboration
Collaborative
community projects on
vacant sites throughout
Ireland
For
A physical pack of plants &
structures for any communities
in Dublin who wish to take a
part of the park with them

10. Original Site - Strand Street, Dublin 1
John Tierney, Dublin City Manager, is convinced that “the successful turnaround of brownfield sites
depends on a buy–in, with the owners, with local businesses and with local people to see if there are
opportunities to move ahead with improving or regenerating any of the sites”

11. Imagine!

13. Dom
inic
Street
Parnell Street1
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5
Dominic Street
Site Plan

14. 1.
Information desk, sheltered seating, planting and rain harvesting

15. 2.
Ridley 's was a temporary dining experience created by The
Decorators and Atelier Chan Chan in Dalston, London. An exposed
yet derelict void in Ridley Road market was transformed into a
podium for outdoor exhibitionist eating.
This project was a community-led, public realm intervention that
combined food, art and architecture. A two-storey structure rose
above market stalls, to house a new kind of market food initiative.
Underlining its strong social aim, the pop-up restaurant also
experimented with an alternative economy featuring a food-for-food
exchange organism.
The building was the headquarters for a sustainable system with many players:
market traders, chefs, designers and diners played different roles, where each
role was absolutely crucial to make the system work.
The aim of the project was to test the power of architecture as an active agent
to stimulate local trade and to explore ways of making public space richer,
more productive and more active. The idea for Ridleys developed in response
to the rich surrounding context. We would like to use this design approach to
develop a similar project this summer in Dublin as part of The Park set up by
Upstart.

16. 3.
the edge school is an exploration of learning, outside of any formal
education institutions. It is a system of exchange where anyone can
teach and anyone can learn. It happens in all kinds of venues, lasts as
long as people want it to and offers no accreditation of learning.
The learning events will encompass various teaching formats: walking
tours, talks, conversation circles, hands-on workshops and skill-shares.
All learning events at the Upstart Park over the month of August will be
free of charge.
walking tours
Skill Shares

17. 4.
UpStart Park Cross Border Theatre Initiative, Set Peace, in Collaboration with North Eastern Education and Library Board,
The Abbey Theatre's Community and Education Dept. and The Complex.

18. 5.
"Sometimes you hear about things
going on about this city that make you
believe maybe itʼs not as bad as theyʼre
all making out."- The Irish Times
Outdoor Cinema will be showing classic
and contemporary films for free.
Past cinema nights run by Happenings
in Dartmouth & FitzWilliam Squares,
Fade Street, Dublin Castle, Powerscourt
and IMMA have been hugely popular.

19. 6.
Arts Installations
Submitted by Irish and
International artists

20. Pledged support and funding for Upstart's Park Project:

21. Who is it for? What’s it going to do for them?
Local Community - Residents of Dominic/Dorset & Parnell Street
Public - Specific Interest/Passers by
Future creative park/garden creators
Local Authority
Local business owners/users
School Tours
Professional property developers
Older/Younger generations
Local 48% of residents who are from abroad
Tourists
Accessible Art
Provide a Project Toolkits for future projects
Art Experience
Recreational Space
Eating Space
Learning Space
Learning Experiences
Theatre Performance
Cinema Experience
Gardening Knowledge Exchange
Horticultural Therapy
Mindfulness Workshops
Eco-learning
Distribution of physical resources
Drug Education
Gives (Free tickets, etc.)
Research - Park Use. Quantitative/Qualitative
Space transformation/regeneration
Publicity/exposure/visibility for projects
involved (Bradóg)

22. Yesterday's charrette enabled us to;
take a step back,
explore who we're building this park for,
why we're building this park,
fill in the holes in the plan,
outline the research that would be needed,
pull apart the toolkit & refine it
define our next steps

26. The Union Street Urban Orchard,London

27. High Line Park, New York

28. The Movement Cafe, London

29. www.upstart.ie