Public life: Design festival reinvigorates urban spaces

The festival focused on giving new life and purpose to abandoned buildings while exploring themes relating to public space.

An 18th-century farmhouse was turned into a design showroom, where concerts were held and local food was served in the evenings. Mexican architect Ivan Hernandez designed and erected a public street library, and another public space experiment saw the creation of an encampment to host visitors under an overpass.

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