LA TERENURI

The Playgrounds (La Terenuri) Mănăștur is a vast green area within a buildings' blocks area, apparently abandoned, but frozen juridically and used informally in many ways by its inhabitants: gardening, walking the dogs, children playgrounds, sport fields, walking in the forest and other informal leisures. In the last 4 years a civic initiatives started here engaging the citizens and activating them to formulate a common request towards the Townhall, in the way of transforming this area into a public park. Also the initiative started an experimentation process of participatory urbanism and designed temporary functions for the park: a stage, benches, a garden, swings, repairing the existing infrastructures, waste bins and also creating here a cultural hub by creating the Days of the Neighbourhood, all of these with the purpose of creating a common space for the inhabitants to meet, express and act for their neighbourhood, Mănăștur.

GARA MICA

The project foresees the regeneration of an unused building in a busy area of Cluj-Napoca. The building in question is called “Gara Mică”, which means “Small Train Station”, as it used to serve as the main building for the now-defunct small train station. It is located in the vicinity of the current train station at one of the city’s main transportation nodes.  The regeneration process actually has grass-roots origins, as organisations took it to themselves to organise workshops and contemporary art galleries for the local artists. The organisations themselves are usually made up of local artists. The most notable event was a month-long artist-workshop/art gallery organised in late 2016 within the framework of the Com’On Cluj participatory budget program. The event was called Spațiu Cultural Garra Mică (Small Station Cultural Space).