The Ephemeral Piazza

The Piazza, town square, village center or square is a place and space splace to interact, build relationships, shop, eat, run errands, have serendipitous encounters, cross paths, exchange ideas.

The Ephemeral Piazza, EP, is a real life face to face happening, a temporary container for participants to live, as if, in a town village center. Participant, guests can participate in which ever way they desire. A village center, public space, needs everyone. There is no admission fee and no one is not invited.

There is one caveat, that everything that happens in this splace creates the beneficial succession of air, water, soil & selves. People aim to live lifestyles of bioremediation & symbiosis (LoBS).

When we all live this challenge we connect is unexpected ways because we aren’t used to biophilic living patterns and their awesome outputs. It’s the natural world offering up its potential. Symbiosis is exponentially experienced when our supply chain, products, by-products, outputs are healthy and useful. Technology, science, invention all exceed our expectations.

MoS’s Mud Ball Village Ephemeral Piazza is an EP that is based upon the beneficial succession of air, water, soil and self.

Lake Anne Village, Reston Va, still by ddmaucher

MoS’s Mud Ball Beneficial Mud Ball, for example, is in the container of an Ephemeral Piazza. The MudBall Ball a celebration which takes place the location of a “Mud Village Ephemeral Piazza”. If we make an EP at a strip mall’s parking lot with no plaza like buildings is it still an Ephemeral plaza piazza?

Each piazza receives a name that corresponds with the name of the location, like “Piazza Strip Mall”.

The Splace of an EP like the MoS MudBall Ball occurs in an open air, in an owned or not public space or private space anywhere in the world that we can a temporary Ephemeral Piazza. Maybe it is a town square, circle or the main drag, a local garden, park, street, strip mall parking lot, anywhere the public can gather freely. Note there are fewer and fewer places and more restrictions.

An Ephemeral Piazza, EP, a commons with no hard structure. The EP can be anywhere because it’s most important aspect is the energy experience exchanged. Does the built structure have to exist? Can we have plaza relationships without the plaza? This is our experiment.

The Piazza Ephemeral is the village center where relationships are amplified, heightened, between what we are doing, saying or leaving behind for each other. There are “shop keepers” with which to interact if you choose or pass them by.

It is all energy. A village needs everyone. There is no admission fee, no one is not invited.

photos of lifestyles of bioremediation & symbiosis in public space, planning and experimenting with it.