Participatory Intensity

Abstract

If Henri Lefebvre was right when he wrote about “the city as oeuvre”, referring to the city as a work of art and urban space as a creative product and context for the everyday life routines of its inhabitants, then every citizen already is the crucial participator and creator in those processes of the production of urban space. That also means the urban intensities are the participative product of collective creativity, but at the same time the vivid context of the everyday life routines of its inhabitants. Based on our experience with “Public art and Public Space” (PaPs) program in Serbia, we shall try to shed a light on this topic by presenting and discussing some of our “public art” works, developed through participatory processes in specific developmental context - with the goal to create particular urban intensity.