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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/

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 🙂

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.

Ciudad Colonial, Santo Domingo

On this occasion the group in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center in Santo Domingo, invite us to participate in the intervention Dispatchwork in the Colonial City to be held in the first weeks of May, the program of said activity comprises two panels and the Creation of three intervention routes with the insertion of pieces of “lego” in fissures of buildings, urban furnishings and sidewalks. The panels will take place on May 3 and 4 at 7:00 PM in the Maria Ugarte Room of the referred center, and will include Esther Hernández-Medina, Marcos Barinas, Marcos Blonda, Incursiones (collective Venezuelan), Alex Martínez Suárez, Mauricia Domínguez, Miguel Piccini and Jan Vormann, whose lectures will revolve around the construction and linking of the inhabitants with the cities and above all with the historical centers.

What we want on the one hand is to emphasize the participatory aspect of the construction of cities, which are the imaginary platform – and tangible at the same time
Where our life in society develops, and in addition, contribute in the bonding of the citizens with the historical centers of our cities, for that reason our action mainly is oriented to the creation of routes within them and in the Concrete case of the Colonial City the routes are based on the literary recreation. Of this historical center: chronicle, memory, tourist itinerary and novel, product of a very well-researched investigation by Miguel Piccini.
The photos were taken by Alex Martinez Suarez, Luis Graham and Miguel Piccini.

York Street, Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth

SeaChange are an independent arts development charity based at the Drill Hall in Great Yarmouth.  They collaborate internationally and are dedicated to delivering outstanding opportunities for artists and communities through supporting, hosting and delivering circus and street arts projects and events.  SeaChange also hosts the Great Yarmouth “Out There Festival” annually in September which this year celebrates its 10th Year.

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Great Yarmouth

This Dispatchwork was created as part of the “Up Our Street” project  which is all about transforming the local neigbourhood around the Drill Hall area, through a range of creative and gardening activities, from murals to street furniture, gardening to upcycling.

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Over two days local children living in around the area participated in creating this dispatchwork which has raised many smiles already.  The installation features on the crumbling corner of one of the many murals that was created by the artist John Dashwood. This mural depicts the Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson which Great Yarmouth had close links with in the 18th Century

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Prasat Beng Mealea, Siem Reap Province

Prasat Beng Mealea

I recently went on a trip to Cambodia on the 8-13 December and visited an ancient temple called Prasat Beng Mealea. it was built during the reign of King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century.

Beng Mealea or Bung Mealea is a temple in the Angkor Wat period located 40 km east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay.

– Donovan Watts

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Kendal, Cumbria

Kendal

The Lake District has long been a source of artistic inspiration and is one of the central themes of the 2017 bid for World Heritage status. The identity, inspiration and desire to look after this spectacular landscape combines to create an evolving masterpiece – the perfect backdrop against which to launch a new, contemporary digital arts festival.  (http://lakesalive.co.uk/about)

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Slaughterhouse Road, Great Yarmouth Town Wall

A seaside town on the east coast of Norfolk, Great Yarmouth has experienced many ups and downs during its past.  Today this has left us with a diverse and fascinating cultural heritage in a struggling economic era.  Despite this Great Yarmouth still welcomes many holiday visitors during the summer season and is growing in its festival calendar to reflect the many qualities the town has.  There are many organisations in the town developing projects with which to highlight conserving the towns’ heritage while developing a more dynamic spirit to reinvigorate the town.

Our first submission to dispatchwork for Great Yarmouth’s patch, is for the Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust – Great Yarmouth Town Wall, in the view of producing more fun submissions in the area for museums and creative arts groups while also trying to inspire some more people to join the game and play with construction bricks to create colourful fun areas of the town.

Great Yarmouth

It is claimed that historic Yarmouth has the second best preserved mediaeval town wall in England, after York.  The town wall, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, traces its origins to 1261 taking many years to complete and several repairs during its role of protecting the town from invasion.  Today through the Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust and Norfolk Conservation Ltd it is undergoing some consolidation work at its most fragile areas.   This current section was known as Slaughterhouse Road, an area which in the past housed several slaughterhouses built into the town wall.  Now all having disappeared this area is once again an exposed piece of town wall needing protection from the extreme easterly winds which batters this piece of coastline.  Our dispatchwork here  (although sadly a temporary feature), highlights some of the severe deterioration the wall has suffered in area now used as a car park!

Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust is a not for profit registered charity working to preserve, save, enhance and promote the historic built environment of the town.

Norfolk Conservation Ltd. came into existence as a response to and concern with: the outstanding heritage of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding area, a general poor state of the built historic environment, a lack of traditional building skills and knowledge, and high unemployment rates. Centred on social values, we are concerned with conserving and promoting heritage, enabling all of its benefits to contribute toward a more sustainable past, present and future.

– Rachel Duncan

Bilk Arkaden, Düsseldorf

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Thanks to Cole Blaq who took on Dispatchwork with a little twist: Cole works much with the bricks in his daily work as a Designer and Graffity artist. He wrote to me that in Düsseldorf there weren’t too many visible spots to repair, and that places are well taken care of, so he found this own way to join the project!

Please check out more of his works here: www.cole-blaq.com

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Reid Street, Melbourne

Phoebe, Harvey, Elliott and Cooper installed their patches in the cracks and missing bricks on the former shoe factory in Reid Street, Fitzroy North.

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Fitzroy North  is an inner suburb of Melbourne and home to many artists. In 2014 themusic.com.au ranked it “#3 suburb in Australia for songwriters.”

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This is the the first Dispatchwork  in Melbourne, and in their email the team stated: “There will be more to come!” Looking forward, my friends!

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Zolitūde, Riga

Riga

Charlotte is originally from the UK and has worked around the world since 2010. She was in Riga in 2015.

Further she writes: “I work with kids and play with PCBs with them regularly as well as teaching concepts like the Egyptian Pyramids; it was exhilarating to bring their brightness onto the streets! Although the patches did get removed, there is something beautiful about the transitoriness of the project. It also helped me accept things like the destruction of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan to make way for the cathedrals of Mexico City: the significance is that it was once there.”

Please also visit her website and Soundcloud.

Thanks for the snowy patch Charlotte, and sorry for the delay 🙂

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Piazza Mazzini, Orvieto

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The cultural association ViVa ignited the spark for the event in Orvieto in Oktober! Orvieto is located in Umbria, “situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe, rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone called Tufa,” says Wikipedia. From the Etrustcan, to the Roman until today: These walls carry a heavy history. Now they also carry the spirit of Dispatchwork.

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We all had so much fun and the citizens were very happy about this positive and proactive way of showing the problems in public places 🙂 will probably repeat it in spring:) – Agnė Mongirdaitė, coordinator of LUNI Kaunas
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Congress Street, Boston

I had already come across these images in ‘Innovation district’ on Nate’s Instagram and only a couple of months later on the National Public Radio NPR (USA) in a broadcast titled:Unraveled: The Mystery Of The Secret Street Artist In Boston!

It is interesting to follow the reporters discovery as she finds and interviews Nate ‘”it was sort of having fun with what most people would consider a problem”. Swain is a former landscape architect who quit his cubicle to try to make it as an artist’!

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Woogakro, Incheon-Seoul

Eunmi Kim, a member of „The Korea Arts and Culture Education Service KACES“ introduced the repairs to her neighborhood. She then sent me the pictures saying that „it was really fun and people who participated got to have a great relationship together.“

She further informed me about their organisation, which „seeks to foster creative talent to ensure cultural welfare fort he public […] by creating an environment where arts and culture education can be embedded in our daily lives. Creating a living cultural community os one oft he various projects that KACES supports. The projects aim to utilize arts and culture as means to support residential communities by indentifying and resolving regional/public issues based on common visions and values.

Through Dispatchwork, residents will be able to look around their neighborhoods and fill in gaps, providing the opportunity to understand the significance and experience of the joy of participating in community activities!“

Please find more info on their blog: www.livingcultures.tistory.com (Korean)

Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

 

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On their website, they state that “as a part for this November, 20th, the Mexican Revolution beginning anniversary, we join the Dispatchwork Project.

We always seek a way to make new ways in our day-by-day, seeking for renovation and a way to be better persons, better parents and children, to build a better comunity, to have better opportunities and jobs.

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Zao Shan Elementary School, Kaohsiung

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The place in the picture is a stair ladder in an elementary school, the school name is “Zao Shan elementary school”, my brother teaches P.E. there, one day I was asking him, if he knew anywhere to dispatch. He said: How about our school, the kids there need more color in their childhood.  – The next weekend we went to the school and did that dispatchwork. – Suncheese

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Maria Filotti Theatre, Braila

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Many Thanks to Florin who passed on the fotos he received via  Despre Copii, his online parenting platform, of patches made by Lorena and her family. Further info about the location, he explains the theatre built in 1896 as “Teatrul Rally” in 1969, acquired its present name in honour of the Romanian actress, Maria Filotti (1883-1956).

Chuo Dori, Tokyo

The first Dispatchwork in Asia, I received from Hibari and Genya (LEGOHAN). Shortly thereafter happened a terrible earthquake. I know that these repairs are no serious alternative to the troublesome reconstruction of the many broken homes, I still think that these pictures might help in reconstructing hope.

 

Bulevardul Națiunile Unite, Bucharest

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DC2013 sent me these pictures with the following statement:

“The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Par- liament. According to the World Records Academy, the Palace is the world’s largest civilian building with an administrative function, most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building.The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceaușescu regime, a brutal and repressive regime that collapsed after a series of violent events in 1989.”

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In August 2013, few kids reconstructed a small pice in the surrounding wall and brought the Dispatchwork spirit in Romania. This was not just a symbolic step […] but also a remembering moment for the thousands of Romanians that risked their lives in 1989 in their fight against the communist regime, and a hopefully, a clear signal for the occupants of the building (Romanian politicians) to do their jobs to ensure the future of the Romanian young generations!”

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Orti Giulii, Pesaro

“Collettivo Re-public”, is a cultural collective born in 2013 with the aim of discussing topics as green-energies, sustainable growth of social life, use and re-use of pubblic dismissed areas of cities, use of contemporary languages in art, music, sculpture, street-art and installations,.

 

Parque Duarte, La Vega

The collective called “LOCUS_colectivo” invited students from the “Universidad Catolica Tecnologica del Cibao” to reclaim their city. Parallel they offered ‘talks about that constitution of the city: Rights and duties.’ 

Great Wall, Jiayuguan Pass

Travelling along the Silk Road, Martin and his family installed many patches on their journey through Asia. With this little help from my friend, Dispatchers Worldwide has made its way to Almaty, Kashsgar, Turfan and even to this piece of the Great Wall, in the province of Gansu!

The Jjiayuguan-pass, the most western part of the chinese Wall, has now also been repaired and renovated, and is now fit for another millenium to be seen from space!

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