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.

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

Community

Creativity

Learning

Sustainability

Play

We are responding to:Vacant Sites

Negative RhetoricConcrete Wastelands

Social & Societal Issues

while demonstrating the importance ofcommunity

the artsand creativity

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

Upstart

DCC

Local Communities on Dominic Street

Inspire

Ethnic Groups Kids & OlderGererational

ToolkitProcess 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

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”

Imagine!

Dominic Street

Parnell Stre

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Dominic StreetSite Plan

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

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.

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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

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.

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.

6.

Arts Installations

Submitted by Irish and International artists

Pledged support and funding for Upstart's Park Project:

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 ArtProvide a Project Toolkits for future projects

Art ExperienceRecreational Space

Eating SpaceLearning Space

Learning ExperiencesTheatre PerformanceCinema Experience

Gardening Knowledge ExchangeHorticultural Therapy

Mindfulness WorkshopsEco-learning

Distribution of physical resourcesDrug Education

Gives (Free tickets, etc.)Research - Park Use. Quantitative/Qualitative

Space transformation/regenerationPublicity/exposure/visibility for projects

involved (Bradóg)

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

The Union Street Urban Orchard,London

High Line Park, New York

The Movement Cafe, London

www.upstart.ie