BACKGROUND
The city is static.
Everything in public space is fixed, stuck and frozen. Its arrangement and organization is decided by the municipality, not intended to be manipulated by the public. On the contrary it is built to be immutable, and changing its appearance or placement is considered vandalism. But people aren’t static, we move and change the environment around us. We naturally try to shape spaces. We improve, customize, adapt. We create and we improvise.
We want to have a livelier city, one that is influenced by its inhabitants. A city that moves with its people. We want to be part of the public space, not only dwell in it. We want to make a mark, leave a trace, for ourselves and for others. We want to inspire to use the public space differently. To see the city as all our playground, our sand box and our gallery. To create what we miss. To see what happens when you give something to a city. To see how the public adopts it. We are questioning how public the public space really is. We are the public. Is it ours? Can we influence it?
Can we change it?
Apparently we can.
We work with the elements that make up our immediate environment: bricks and curbs; fragments of the street that can be manipulated. We gather them where they are broken, forgotten, discarded, unwanted. With quick methods and easy tools we reorganize the materials and make them into something else. A new life in a new form.
We take from the city and we give back to it.
The city is static.
Everything in public space is fixed, stuck and frozen. Its arrangement and organization is decided by the municipality, not intended to be manipulated by the public. On the contrary it is built to be immutable, and changing its appearance or placement is considered vandalism. But people aren’t static, we move and change the environment around us. We naturally try to shape spaces. We improve, customize, adapt. We create and we improvise.
We want to have a livelier city, one that is influenced by its inhabitants. A city that moves with its people. We want to be part of the public space, not only dwell in it. We want to make a mark, leave a trace, for ourselves and for others. We want to inspire to use the public space differently. To see the city as all our playground, our sand box and our gallery. To create what we miss. To see what happens when you give something to a city. To see how the public adopts it. We are questioning how public the public space really is. We are the public. Is it ours? Can we influence it?
Can we change it?
Apparently we can.
We work with the elements that make up our immediate environment: bricks and curbs; fragments of the street that can be manipulated. We gather them where they are broken, forgotten, discarded, unwanted. With quick methods and easy tools we reorganize the materials and make them into something else. A new life in a new form.
We take from the city and we give back to it.
Everything in public space is fixed, stuck and frozen. Its arrangement and organization is decided by the municipality, not intended to be manipulated by the public. On the contrary it is built to be immutable, and changing its appearance or placement is considered vandalism. But people aren’t static, we move and change the environment around us. We naturally try to shape spaces. We improve, customize, adapt. We create and we improvise.
We want to have a livelier city, one that is influenced by its inhabitants. A city that moves with its people. We want to be part of the public space, not only dwell in it. We want to make a mark, leave a trace, for ourselves and for others. We want to inspire to use the public space differently. To see the city as all our playground, our sand box and our gallery. To create what we miss. To see what happens when you give something to a city. To see how the public adopts it. We are questioning how public the public space really is. We are the public. Is it ours? Can we influence it?
Can we change it?
Apparently we can.
We work with the elements that make up our immediate environment: bricks and curbs; fragments of the street that can be manipulated. We gather them where they are broken, forgotten, discarded, unwanted. With quick methods and easy tools we reorganize the materials and make them into something else. A new life in a new form.
We take from the city and we give back to it.