Empty spaces, rather than having a negative impact, often inspire communities to express themselves and serve as incubators of ideas. The hidden potential of thee spaces allows communities to experiment, interact, and improvise, creating a contagious activity and a spirit of renewal.
Idle Ideas aims to narrate and document various empty urban spaces that accommodate and inspire activation initiatives. By exposing the authenticity of these spaces and the creative activities of their users, we merge the spatial and social aspects.
The term "idle" represents various passive conditions of a space, synonymous with abandoned, lost, unused, neglected, empty, residual, and more. While "ideas" encompasses various forms of use and intervention in empty spaces initiated by communities, typically spontaneous, simple, low-cost, ad-hoc, and temporary.