“Chalkifying”, part of the global Playable Cities movement, involves using chalk to create temporary drawings in the public realm to bring people together in a fun way. As part of the Making the City Playable conference in Bristol, we asked you to share your examples from your city. What we discovered was colourful collaborative drawings, fake flowers and plenty of hopscotch - from Birmingham to Bangalore.
New York City
People playing on 5th Avenue during Museum Mile, NYC
Museum Mile in NYC closes 5th Avenue so that the MET and Guggenheim museums become linked by a whole avenue of fun. Dancing, shows, music, chalking, food.
Bangalore
Hopscotch most popular among all
Open street events organised by ESAF an nGO working for making cities livable as part of their association with Cycle Day. This is an event organised last Sunday of the month by like minded citizens and government to reclaim streets, encouraging non motorised transport in the city.
This is huge hit among all age group and great bonding and quality time for family. Hopscotch is kind of cherishing childhood days for parents and excitedly shared with their children
Does not that look cool? Street chalkified!
ESAF, an NGO working on Livable Cities Program has been promoting Open Street Events every last Sunday of the month through their association with Cycle Day. Cycle day is an event organised by BCOS (Bengaluru Coalition of Open Streets) to enable and encourage NMT and open street events across the city!
Street Doodling is the most sought after event for the day!
Bristol
Shadow Bikes
A summer inset day, a few chores to do and some chalk along the way.
#chalkify
Ash from Ludic Rooms describes the art of liberating the city through chalk
Birmingham
Brussels
Reaching with a love letter
Chalkifying the city of Brussels during a summer camp (art-in-the-city themed). Unfortunately, the owners of one of the houses we chalked on called the police... We ran away and acted as if we were just playing a game.
Brighton
#chalkify at dConstruct
Chalking the city at dConstruct in Brighton
Hello sundial
Chalkifying the city during dConstruct 2014
London
You Are Here.
Three scribbled words, placed again & again across London. Its simplicity is its weight, bringing elements of time and place together. Recalling notions of mapping, the idea is to bring the person who stumbles across it in touch with the present moment, and provide a sense of grounding.
