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3 DRIVER’SWALKING APPThe space in which we think is the space with which we think. What is the space that contains personal space, public space, navigational space? What is space like for you, today? What use can you make of public space?

2 SEARCH : I’M FEELINGSPECIES OF MOBILITYMobility changes with consequences for density. So the question is how do you make density mobile?

Music is sometimes the only space we can really imagine. And that space is sometimes just like the feeling of a city. So what would it be like to make a city in the same way you make a song?

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PEtER MAcAPIA/ l a b d O R A

Search:We listened to Stevie Wonder’s video LIVING for the CITY.

Inspired by the relation between the city, mobility, and geopolitics and the problem of conflict and congestion.

Really liked BIG’s smart tiles and flexibility of the road as an urban SPACE: the road with many identities.

MOBILIZE used to be a military term. It’s now urban and geo-

political and means the question of public space as freedom and debate.

Pushed far enough, road becomes PLAZA, a site of creative endeavor - art, commerce, or coffee and conversation.

A NETWORK is flexible and allows for different areas to COMMUNICATE, to become.

PUBLIC SPACE is an essential democratic element. Architecturally, buildings need to let the ground flow underneath it.

Sustainability is about FLOWS of matter and energy which are social, cultural, and political as well as spatial.

And we asked ourselves: What would it be like to cut through the grid and discover something different?

FIRM PROFILE Peter Macapia/labDORA is an experimental studio. Members come together for specific projects exploring architecture, urban density, and culture to invent new problems and insights. We use computation, geometry, algorithms, music, video, art, internet. We make propositions that introduce us to new experience, which range from publications to installations to buildings.

PROjEct cREdIts Peter Macapia, Bryan Rietter, Matt Lightner, Laurent Dubuis, Nikos Patsopolous, Eleni Karanicola, Cheyenne Lau, Annamaria Kasimati, Maurizio Huayla, Tuan Nguyen, Amanda Rivera, Mike Hoak, Fabien Saura, Dale Strong PeterMacapia/labDORA/Downtown

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STEVIE WONDER "LIV

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SESAME STREET Sunny Day Sweepin' the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame Street Come and play Everything's A-OK Friendly neighbors there That's where we meet Can you tell me how to get How to get to Sesame Street t's a magic carpet ride Every door will open wide To Happy people like you-- Happy people like What a beautiful Sunny Day Sweepin' the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame street... How to get to Sesame Street How to get to... Hi-ho, this is Kermit the Frog here, reporting for the Sesame Street News.-Kermit Scram!

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