Urban Gorillas

http://urbangorillas.org/

Urban Gorillas contributes to sustainable urban living by enabling projects that bring new energy and instigate change in city spaces and communities. UG transforms public spaces into lively hubs, cultivates civil society and impacts policies.UG fulfils its mission through pilot activities and concrete actions, extensive research, and bottom-up, low-cost, high-impact techniques.UG team shares expertise in arts and architecture, urban design and planning, landscape design, environmental engineering, economics, communications, cultural project management, as well as a love for innovation.

The In-Communicado project included interactive workshops and open air screenings conducted on both sides of Nicosia. The workshop addressed the question of how borders (physical and virtual) contribute to the construction of stereotypes and devised ways to bypass them poetically. The results of the workshop were presented while eating dinner on 2 rooftops along the Green Line. Participants found alternative ways to create contact and communicate with the director conducting the workshop via Skype from one roof. The rooftop dinner was filmed simultaneously on both sides and the material produced is part of a wider research conducted by the organization.

http://urbangorillas.org/our-work/urban-interventions/in-communicado-project-week/