Park-ing : Reimagining urban landscape

In urban centers around the world, inexpensive curbside parking results in increased traffic, wasted fuel and more pollution. The strategies and values that generate these conditions are no longer sustainable, nor do they promote a healthy, vibrant urban Human Habitat ( Shoup , 2011). 

Lahore, as one of the metropolitan cities of Pakistan, has seen an unprecedent growth in its population as well as an uncontrollable urban sprawl. In the mean time public space are shirking at great pace and existing one are being engulfed by private sector to earn profit. All of this has deprived the Lahoris ( those who live in Lahore) of spaces where they can interact , express themselves or simply relax. Park-ing , an initiative by AARC,  aims to directly address this deprivation issue by creating temporary public space pockets in different part of the city.

Employing art -play initiative i.e., combination of local games, participatory art, and recycled urban furniture made of plastic bottles, the artist aims to reclaim the metered parking space as a rich new territory of creative experimentation and activism and to transform one parking space into a park for one day