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rue de la Querelle

Les habitant.e.s du quartier des Marolles et l’équipe du Projet de Cohésion Sociale d’Habitat & Rénovation asbl ont réparé des coins cassés sur la Plaine de la Querelle dans le cadre du futur réaménagement.

Rotdornweg 43, 50226 Frechen

Im Rahmen der Projekttage im Juni 2023 haben wir uns als Schüler:innen entschieden, die unschönen Ecken unserer Schule mit Lego bunter zu gestalten. Auch in der Frechener Innentstadt, an der Stadtbücherei, haben wir für ein wenig Farbe gesorgt.

During the project days in June 2023, us students decided to fill the shabby corners of school with colorful Legos. We did as well bring some color to our inner City, right behind the public library.

Schloßstr. 21 50321 Brühl

Ein 50jähriges Jubiläum feierte der Brühler Kunstverein 2022 und die Vorsitzende Gaby Zimmermann holte das Kunstprojekt deswegen in die Stadt – umgesetzt von Kindern und jungen Erwachsenen. Der Filmemacher Thorsten Kleinschmidt hat die Aktion filmisch festgehalten, was hier zu sehen ist: Video Kunstverein Dispatchwork Bruehl

The Brühler Kunstverein celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022 and the chairwoman Gaby Zimmermann therefore brought the art project to the city – implemented by children and young adults. Filmmaker Thorsten Kleinschmidt captured the action on film, what can be seen here: Video Kunstverein Dispatchwork Bruehl

via galilei, Bernalda (MT)

Progetto Scuola dell’Infanzia dell’Istituto Comprensivo “Pitagora” di Bernalda (MT) intitolato “Coloriamo tutti i muri….con una manciata di lego”. L’idea è stata di individuare un luogo-simbolo, Complesso Scolastico “Anacreonte”, su cui accendere i riflettori per sensibilizzare la comunità, sul suo valore sia esso storico-artistico-architettonico che culturale ed identitario, per stimolare processi virtuosi di valorizzazione, di tutela e cittadinanza attiva, perché “si ama ciò che si conosce e si tutela ciò che si ama”. svilupperà, così, ponendo le basi sulla educazione alla “Cittadinanza attiva”, intesa come costruzione dell’identità individuale, culturale e sociale, nella convinzione che un cambiamento sociale e culturale sia possibile solo a partire da una nuova attenzione ai bambini già nei primi sei anni di vita e dalla diffusione di una cultura dell’infanzia e per l’infanzia. Pur consapevoli di non poter risolvere da soli problemi spesso molto grandi, l’educazione però può far molto per sostenere la speranza di un mondo migliore costruito attraverso l’impegno dei singoli e delle comunità. Rapportandosi così con il proprio contesto locale di vita quotidiana, perché la città è un grande laboratorio didattico, campo del fare attivo e, come ci ricorda Calvino, “Le città sono un insieme di tante cose: di memorie, di desideri, di segni di un linguaggio… luoghi di scambio” (Città invisibili).

A40, 01250 Jasseron

Atelier avec patients et professionnels du Centre Psychotherapique de l’Ain dans le cadre de #ColorezBourg – Réalisé par le dispositif Culture NoMad et l’Espace des Usagers du CPA .

Budapest, Orom utca 24

This is our office and we would like to continue the dispatchwork in the future. The tower is located in the top of Gellért Hill, Budapest and Eugene Wigner who received the Nobel Prize in Physics lived in that house.

Nad Odrą 6, 71-820 Szczecin

Historical building from 1926. Build by Lindke family, the owners of the brick factory located near. The co-owner of the company was Ms Dietmer, from local Stołczyn’s old family.Building is registered as local heritage monument. Yet, is told to be demolished soon.

Strada Valea Parcului 1, Mogoșoaia

Réparation colorée réalisée par Victor 7 ans, Matilda 4 ans et leur père.
Le Palais de Mogosoaia est un monument historique bâti aux XVIIIème siècle qui abrite aujourd’hui un musée.
Il se tient au bord d’un lac et dans un grand parc à proximité de Bucarest.

Colored repair made by Victor 7 years old, Matilda 4 years old and their father.
The Palace of Mogosoaia is a historical monument built in the 18th century which now houses a museum.
It is located by a lake in a large park near Bucharest.

823 Travis Street, Wichita Falls, TX 76301

We came across Jan Vormann’s “Dispatchwork” and loved the idea. We commissioned local creative and LEGO craftsman, Adrian Ramirez, to patch some missing bricks at 9th Street Studios. Epic photos were provided by Artist, Simon Welch, and brought another level of interaction to our building’s new addition.

Quai Jongkind, 65, Grenoble, France

Created on July 4, 2020 in Grenoble (France) during a visit to discover the Dispatchwork project and question the notion of heritage organized by Artilubi (artilubi.com).

Créé le 4 juillet 2020 à Grenoble (France) à l’occasion d’une visite pour découvrir le projet Dispatchwork et questionner la notion de patrimoine organisée par Artilubi (artilubi.com).

CAPC, 7 rue Ferrere, Bordeaux, France

We are 8 children working in a workshop every wednesday in the the CAPC (museum of contempory art of Bordeaux in France). We are reparing the bulding by doing a lot of small interventions to take care of the museum.
We prepared a surprise for you : a lego patch. By the way, if you come to Bordeaux, visit us to see our reparation in the museum.

Kolymazhnyy Pereulok, 6с2, Moskva, Russland

Participating at the Festival for Inclusivity, “See the world my way” – Listened to very inspiring speakers of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Guggenhei Collection Venice and Kunsthistorisches Musem Wien, who all spoke about their efforts to make the Arts available for everybody. Definitely a topic that has to be improved on. The Conference took place in the italian courtyard inside the museum, right next to the Cast of David from Milan.

https://www.facebook.com/accessiblemuseum/
https://www.instagram.com/theartsmuseum/

32a Altrincham Street, Manchester

A last one on my way to the trainstation with Javier Abarca. Javi is an artist, researcher and educator in the fields of graffiti and street art. A leading figure from the first generation of Spanish graffiti, he taught a class on graffiti and street art at the Complutense University of Madrid between 2006 and 2015. He is founder and director of the Unlock Book Fair and the Tag Conference. He founded the website Urbanario in 2008. He works in teaching, curating and writing across Europe. (https://javierabarca.es/en/)

http://unlockfair.com/author/javier-abarca/

High fluctuation, the patch was probably gone after a few hours.

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4 Dale Street, Manchester

Next to a hermit crab of the series Home Sweet Home <3

Short Street, Manchester

Next to the hotel we stayed in and a piece by Invader. Ever want some excitement on your Manchester trip? Stay in this hotel on Tib street. The lobby is the only place that let’s you have wifi and there’s high-life non-stop. Countless adventures waiting for you.

104 High Street, Manchester

Nice place to go for a stroll, the Northern Quarter. Here 4 arches left standing which seem to have been part of a former fish market. I’d love an actual fish market in that place rather than these modern buildings. Coming from a continental place, fish markets are places that evoke in me the feeling of holidays.

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104 Fairfield Street, Manchester

Being part of the Social Surfaces Conference as a speaker I walked through the streets to get to know Manchester and find me some quiet spots to leave a couple of patches. This one was done right next to a ad-buff by Jordan Seyler, whom I met for the conference first. Check his Instagram, definitely recommended. https://www.instagram.com/jordanseiler/

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62 E Main St, Statesboro, GA 30458

This building was an old Chevrolet store front from the early 1900s. This old Chevrolet building has since been transformed into a hub for small businesses, yet it never received a proper upgrade to its facade and continued to lose bricks over the years. My siblings and I decided it was due for a proper make over. We began with the most obvious areas in need of improvement and filled in those areas first. We plan on making it a community wide affair and start a Lego drive at school, in order to continue the good work of Dispatch.

매향리스튜디오

We are in Korea. It is a group of everyday people, mostly mommies, who love art and try out different artist’s artworks. Jan Vormann’s dispatch inspired us so much and so we did as follows. We went to an old chapel in a church in a place called Me-hyang-li, in Hwaseong-si, and did some dispatch work there. Hwaseong-si is where we all live in.

Me-hyang-li has been used as a shooting range for the past 60 years by the US military until recently. So naturally, the area was filled with unwanted bullet shells, debris and smokes from all sorts of explosions. It sometimes leads to casualties, which made the villagers devastated, but had to take it on, all on their own. This made the people living in the area eventually flee and move out of Me-hyang-li, making the place more disagreeable to live in.
After a hard struggle against the USFK, the Me-hyang-li shooting range was closed, but it is still a place where painful history is underway due to various political and environmental factors.

The former chapel of Maehyang-ri’s old church has been transformed into a cultural and artistic space under the Eco-Museum project in Gyeonggi-do and has been established as a ‘Me-hyang-ri Studio.’

We were proud that with Jan Vormann’s dispatchwork project, we could also help our neighborhood (a little far but still, neighborhood ·ᴗ·) heal a little. Thank you so much, Jan!!

Related link with more pictures: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2lXdQfpLSu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Port Joint, 25000 Besançon

There’s that thrill of peeking into windows to catch a glimpse of other people’s lifes. It’s comparable to the sensation when you are about to write an illegal graffiti or nick a desired object – This absolute unit took 5 people 5 hours to construct, standing around it like around a fire, singing, talking and telling stupid jokes. Thanks heaps Lisa, Marie, Clemence, Pauline from Bien Urbain Festival

http://www.bien-urbain.fr/en/

13 Avenue Arthur Gaulard, 25000 Besançon

One of the recent works in Besançon at Bien Urbain festival making artists dream to work in their public spaces. Plenty material and many helping extra hands and eyes. This one took us 5 hours to construct, with a little passageway to discover the inside. Thanks Marie!  with a view on the citadel, the conservatory and a fantastic mural of www.instagram.com/steveespopowers from an earlier edition of Bien Urbain.

www.bien-urbain.fr

35 Avenue Arthur Gaulard, 25000 Besançon

Dispatchwork is more than just me squeezing intricate shapes into fissures and cracks of broken walls. Here you see a whole neighborhood of Besançon mending the century old city wall on the opening weekend of Bien Urbain – 8 swiftly passing hours of collective work shared between all ages. In these moments nothing else is more important than fitting the little pieces in perfectly. No matter your origin, gender, skin color, religion, disabilities, age – what counts here is to find the right pieces for structural support and to add an arch or a little window. This is Dispatchwork.

Thank you Instagram.com/pcgbstory & Instagram.com/htbaleprechaun

www.instagram.com/bienurbain/
www.bien-urbain.fr/en/

Vico I Morricone, 6, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Vicolo II Morricone, 32, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

Theses guys helped me the other day. That’s Martin, Marc, Ian , Vinny and Milu. They all are working in the field of Streetart, Martin is a painter, Vinny, Ian and Marc are fotographers and run their much respected streetart pages. We had a good time working the streets together here. One beer for five, but nice and warm… the weather.

www.instagram.com/wallkandy/

www.instagram.com/streetlayers/

www.instagram.com/hookedblog/

www.instagram.com/milucorrech/

www.instagram.com/martinwhatson/

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.
This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Vicolo II Morricone, 11, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.
This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Vicolo II Morricone, 11, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

Here working with Alice who initiated the festival and Francisco an artist from a prior edition who dropped by because he was in the region. They are both legends here.

https://www.instagram.com/alicepasquini

https://www.instagram.com/bosoletti/

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.
This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Via Vincenzo Cuoco, 30, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.
This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Vico III Ripe, 2, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Via Vincenzo Cuoco, 35, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.
This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Via Vincenzo Cuoco, 5, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.
This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Vicolo II Morricone, 5, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 23, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Via G. Pepe, 16, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

In Civitacampomarano, the locals don’t care if the kids are now called Anwar and Ali instead of Antonio and Alberto, as long as the city’s population doesn’t die out entirely.

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

Via G. Pepe, 44, 86030 Civitacampomarano CB

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

First image copyrights by Ian Cox (Wallkandy)
https://www.instagram.com/wallkandy/

Via G. Pepe, 2, 86030 Civitacampomarano

CVTA Streetfest is an annual celebration of arts in public spaces organized by the local assosiation Associazione Culturale „CivitArt“ and the artist Alice Pasquini. Every year renowned streetartist come and leave their marks on the almost entirely abandoned village of Civitacampomarano.

This years edition featured artists such as Addfuel, Martin Whatson, Milu Correch and Studio Ayra.

www.cvtastreetfest.com
https://www.instagram.com/cvtastreetfest/

First 3 images taken by Ian Cox (Wallkandy)
https://www.instagram.com/wallkandy/

The Green, Aberdeen

When you read these lines, it’ll be roughly 400 years since the man named Indian Pete has passed. The history books tell us, this wall that you are seeing in the picture, “is one of the oldest in this grand city [of Aberdeen]. It had formerly been a part of an old townhouse known as Aedies House. Built around 1604 and finally demolished in 1914 it held a dark history. Believed as it was to have been a holding house for children stolen off the streets to be sold as slaves in America. […] Around 700 children would be kidnapped from the streets. Their fate, to be kept in holding houses like Aedies until there were enough of them to transport.”

Someone told me that a bagpipe was played every night, to drown the screaming of these doomed kids. Who knows really, but the one story everybody agrees on is the story of Peter Williamson. His parents “reputable though not rich” sent him to live with an aunt in Aberdeen. In a cold night in January 1743 Peter was kidnapped while playing on the quay. With the age of 8 years, he was abducted to America as a slave, and sold for 16£ to work on a plantation.

I’ll spare you the details of his gruesome return to his birthplace of Aberdeen, since you can now easily look it up online. And I tell you in advance it is a story of deep desolation, describing the cruelty of the so-called “discovery of the new world” and the horrors of slavery connected to it. But it is also a story of hope. And, as his clumsily chosen name suggests, there are Native Americans involved as well as the final return to Scotland which, however, left him “banished from Aberdeen as a vagrant” for telling his story.

Ultimately, Indian Pete was able to make a living from a succesful tavern he ran in Edinburgh, for poets and lawyers. But until this day, his story haunts the Aberdonians. Another local whispered to me on the night i took this picture, on the staircase that leads up from The Green to buzzing Union street, that him and others had seen, from afar and late at night, children in nightgowns sitting on precisely these stairs.

Rue Haute 153, 1000 Bruxelles

We fixed the corner of this street and met the owners of the pizzeria that were thrilled by the spontaneaus and colorful builders working on their wall. They insisted to offer us coffe for the work, we were delighted to accept. Note the little window and the tiny lego-man living in this somewhat cosy little nest in the heart of Brussels oldest neighborhood. Even better : a few helixes hanging from the wall provide the little inhabitant with a free supply of wind energy. Such a luxury, living in a priceless spot in a ever more expensve area. What a smart little yellow-guy !

French Pavillion, Venice

The theme of the Venice Architecture Biennal 2018 is “Freespace” – The police came twice to make us remove the installation and get back in line.

Thanks for refusing and having our back @104paris @nicoladelon @encore_heureux_architectes ! Thank you for the invitation, thank you to the 104centquatre and caserma pepe staff

 

 

 

15 Sint-Jorispoort, 2000 Antwerpen

Actually, it’s not my patch. I accidentally found it while running through the city. I heard about this amazing project only a few weeks ago and bumping so unexpectedly into one of the patchworks, 100 metres far from my flat made my day! I love this community 🙂

Pietrapaola

ABRACALBRA – the residency to be in Calabria. Nothing but inspiring beauty in Architecture and Nature, only healthy Food and the weather always matches your mood!

92 Khak St, Sulaymaniyah, Amnasuraka, Irak

Jan gave me a bag of Lego, before I travelled to South Kurdistan for the art project “Space 21.” I promised to find a place for his work. When I visited the Amna Suraka (the red museum), the former prison of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service, where the Kurds were tortured until the liberation in 1991, I felt that this place had a very sad energy that needed Jans positive and colourful work as a symbol for a brighter future.

When you walk through the main entrance of Amna Suraka you find the Dispatchwork at the building in front of you on the upper left side of the facade.