Designed by Stage Dnipro Community, The stage is a seasonal, multi-purpose park pavilion in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was constructed in place of the former green theatre in the Shevchenko Park, the city?s principal public space. The stage was created entirely with the use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding: online methods of distributed work and funding. How to create a truly public space" The stage has been created entirely by citizens, using online methods of distributed work and funding. Over 200 people were engaged at all stages of its creation: contributing financially, writing the brief, designing and assembling building components. This approach is unique: architectural practice today is dominated by top-down methods of work. In the 1790s, Prince Grigory Potemkin built his residence in the city of Ekaterinoslavl, today?s Dnipro. The palace, surrounded by gardens, overlooked the Dnieper. In the 1920s, after the Bolshevik revolution, the city was renamed to Dnepropetrovsk. Potemkin?s palace was converted into a workers? house; the park ? into the city?s principal public space. In 1935, a wooden theatre for 2,500 spectators was erected in the park. It burnt down during World War II. For the next 70 years, the site remained abandoned. After the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan), Dnepropetrovsk changed the name again, to Dnipro. Stage ? an emanation of the vibrant culture that emerged after Euromaidan ? was built to accommodate the needs of dozens of artists, po...