The Pocket Park in Tirana, 2015.
The project aimed the transformation of left out urban pockets in the city of Tirana into pocket parks through community participation. The Overall Goal of the project was to contribute to the catalysation of bottom-up initiatives of city neighborhoods in Tirana through use of creative energy and cultural patterns of the self-organizing networks in participatory planning processes. The primary target groups are neighborhood inhabitants, the existing activists, the young local and international planners, artists, initiators and entrepreneurs, searching to enhance their role in the neighborhood. The secondary target are cultural institutions looking for partners from other disciplines, local governments, specifically local planning officials looking to utilize local cultural models and knowledge in the urban regeneration on the city level, and experts and activists from other neighborhoods and the regions.