The Hammer Museum won a Goldhirsh Foundation LA2050 prize for its ideas about how to redevelop nearby Westwood Village. Their pop-up called Arts ReStore includes 18 different vendors spread out in various temporarily re-claimed storefronts.
Rock on, Hammer Museum!
THE HERITAGE COUNCIL is hosting workshop to teach communities how to create a pop-up museum in vacant spaces to inject life back into their towns and draw in the tourists.
"I am bothered by the "big box" science centers, $300 million dollar projects seem unnecessary. You could build 100 smaller science centers for the same $300M budget. My thinking behind Science Pop (science center in a box), has grown out of a need for community based science centers."
I saw this story--- thought there were some interesting possible lessons!
There are major efforts in the alt currency space-- so I'd encourage you to keep thinking this one through...
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Acres of unused space in conventional office buildings may be transformed into hotel rooms, classrooms, theaters or retail uses, architects and urban planners say. And museums? Exhibition spaces? Pop-up?