Pilot will consist of two parts. First one is to temporarily remove few parking spaces, install temporary urban furniture (benches, tables lights, etc…), tidy up unkempt lawns and trees and provide fence around the space for rubbish bins. During this process, we will also carefully keep observation of usage and potential usage of this newly gained Pop-up space.
Second part of a pilot is to provide “attractor” (or art intervention), to bring people to this area. With the help of video mapping technology, local artist will create video and light projection of a legend of princess Veronika. Video and light projection will be seen (projected) on the old walls of Mali Grad castle in a way, that newly designed Pop-up space will be the best location to observe this art installation. Also as part of the “attractor” element, festival Kamfest and few other smaller (summer, …) events will be organized there.
The purchase and installation of the equipment and the construction work will be carried out between autumn 2024 and early summer 2025. Process of pilot implementation-finalization is planned in summer of 2025, when we expect most of visitors in the city centre, and there are also few local festivals that will be happy to use provided infrastructure in this space. We may even start with some pilot events earlier (December events in the city, etc.). Part of the pre-pilot testing is already in progress during the summer of 2024, through which we are already testing which micro location would be best to use.