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Mini pop-up park on parking-spot near Gaia/Lumen
Merel Scheltema, student urban environmental management, did create a small park on one of the parking-spots near Gaia/Lumen on Wednesday 21 September, the international PARK(ing) Day.
PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. The mission of PARK(ing) Day is to call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated, and to improve the quality of urban human habitat … at least until the meter runs out!
Merel felt inspired by the idea and thinks that Wageningen Campus is a perfect environment to share the vision of PARK(ing) Day.
