Verona Street Delivery 2011

As in previous years, together with my colleagues, I envisioned a concept and urban scenography based on the voluntary involvement of the community and the continuity of the pedestrian cultural route that advocates the Verona PUZ. The months-long making of the idea and the "physical staging" of all the urban actors (including this year's rain, which brought an unexpected change in the human-space relationship!) are for me stages that I feed on emotionally. And that convince me again that the project is necessary, wanted and creative!

I think that now, six years after the first urban culture event on Verona Street in Bucharest, the challenge for me is to play with public space and imagine how the complexity of architectural and street furniture projects gradually increases. And to enjoy the unconditional involvement of the participants and the joy with which the public space is inhabited responsibly for three days.

One direction that is starting to take strong shape at Verona Street Delivery is to bring to public debate, in the streets, some of the hot topics for Bucharest - urban chaos, massive and brutal destruction and demolition of traditional areas and green spaces in the name of a misunderstood modernization that does not take into account the real needs of the inhabitants. In 2011, the Street Delivery community reacted actively, creatively and responsibly, "delivering" to the citizens of Bucharest not only specific architectural projects, but also an excellent critical intervention of graffiti artists on the landmark on Arthur Verona Street, corner of Pitar Moș Street.

The cultural trail has shown its sustainability again this year. The project is based on a technique of insinuating street furniture objects into the public space, considered "nobody's", symbolically marking the entrance to the pedestrian Verona. In this way we offer a street with urban memory that gathers year after year the interventions and emotions of the participants in the alternative living exercise proposed by Street Delivery.