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Park(ing) Day is a global, public, participatory art project that takes place annually on the third weekend of September. Across the world, people temporarily repurpose on-street, boulevard or lot parking spaces and convert them into tiny parks and places for art, play, and activism.
Why Park(ing) Day"
Park(ing) Day is a unique and exciting opportunity to engage in the ongoing dialog around how our cities are designed and built. The event draws attention to the need for improving access and quantity of public open spaces in densely populated urban areas as well as the need for these spaces to provide social and environmental engagement. The ethos of Park(ing) Day is to celebrate the use of urban public space for people and challenge the dominance of the automobile in cities. Park(ing) Day began as a guerrilla art and design activism project launched by Rebar in a single parking spot in San Francisco in 2005. Since then, it has become an annual global annual event that boasts hundreds of installations in dozens of countries, with local urban activists temporarily re-purposing parking spaces and transforming them into tiny parkettes for art, design, play, and activism.
Park(ing) Day Toronto, coordinated locally by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, will feature installations in and around the city, including at Dubbeldam?s office in their boulevard parking spaces.
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