PARADISO
URBAN INTERVENTION
Urban Center of Petare. Caracas, Venezuela
2016
PARADISO
Urban Center of Petare. Caracas, Venezuela
2016
Project │ Incursiones + Central Arquitectura
Team │ Josymar Rodríguez, María Valentina González, Yanfe Pedroza, Stefan Gzyl, Manuela Falcón, Gabriel Fossi, José Antonio Guinand, Alejandra Paredes, Adriana Pizzi, Lucia Guinand, Úrsula D′Amico
Collaborators │ Jesús Gabriel Díaz, Luis Manzano, Nikolai Elneser, Josbel Chacón, Kleyver Gutiérrez, Carpinteros Tarazona, K&S Solutions
Allies │ Goethe-Institut, Cultura Sucre, Provita, Galería Abra, Pasa la cebra, Colegio Humbolt, Fundación Bigott, Bodegas Pomar
Team │ Josymar Rodríguez, María Valentina González, Yanfe Pedroza, Stefan Gzyl, Manuela Falcón, Gabriel Fossi, José Antonio Guinand, Alejandra Paredes, Adriana Pizzi, Lucia Guinand, Úrsula D′Amico
Collaborators │ Jesús Gabriel Díaz, Luis Manzano, Nikolai Elneser, Josbel Chacón, Kleyver Gutiérrez, Carpinteros Tarazona, K&S Solutions
Allies │ Goethe-Institut, Cultura Sucre, Provita, Galería Abra, Pasa la cebra, Colegio Humbolt, Fundación Bigott, Bodegas Pomar
Paradiso is an urban
garden whose care and growth was entrusted to the citizens of Caracas.
In a city where we seem to have forgotten some of the basic rules for peaceful coexistence, this temporary installation provides a space in which
visitors can regain confidence in one another and the city as a space that
brings us all together.
Paradiso is a public garden that provides a space of inclusion, secluded from a
conflictive context in which the visitor is invited to help build a different
kind of city. By promoting interaction and collaboration, Paradiso aims at
rebuilding citizenship and confidence both towards the city and towards
others.
The main space of Paradiso is a plant nursery, where visitors deposit their
plants. Once there, plants belong to the garden and depend on others for
survival. In this sense, everyone shares the responsibility of looking after
something that is not one’s own.
On the last day of
the installation, the garden was dismantled and the plants donated to visitors.
Some plants were planted around the city while others ended up in people´s
houses, as a sort of present the city gave its citizens in return.
