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#1. Pink Puffs Roll Instant Playground

Topotek 1 Temporary Playground: Garden Show, Wolfsburg, 2004 © Hans Joosten

Twenty-four inflatable pink rubber objects and fifteen foam cubes were installed in a temporary playground beside a horse pasture in Wolfsburg, Germany, for the 2004 State Garden Show.

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#2. Mapping the Incomplete Creates Housing

Abandoned construction sites are found in all cities. The French architectural team Coloco, founded in 1999, scouts and maps “skeletal” structures.

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#3. Tokyo Disassembles for Easy Recycling

Recycling Tokyo, 2008 ©Atelier Bow-Wow

Forty-three proposals for the recycling of an entire city critical of helplessness in the face of a environment exhausted of possibility.

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#4. Reclaim Vacant Lot with What City’s Got

A proposal made to the city of Seville for legislation to assist in the temporary transformation of public and private solares – vacant lots walled off for security – into public spaces for at leas

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#5. It Can Only Be Made From Trash

A book, website (superuse.org), and the Recyclicity foundation were created to familiarize and connect designers with material detritus from construction rubble and garbage waste to revitalize aban

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#6. Carbon Credits Build Micro-Projects

SuperNeutral MicroSites project panels and business plan, OUA, 2007 © Andrea Brennen, Shirley Shen, John Snavely

A proposal for a group of landowners and the Office for Unsolicited Architecture (OUA) to design projects on microsites such as lawns and alleys between houses, with payment as carbon credits.

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#7. Borrowed Buildings Offer Offices

Buildings occupied for periods between a few months to a few years and converted into temporary offices donated to local non-profit organizations.

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#8. Umbrellas Join Forces for Shelter

There are umbrellas in every city. As one umbrella is a cheap, portable shelter for a single person, many can become shelter for a group of people.

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#9. Oranges Lead Nocturnal Walk

A Los Angeles law makes all fruit and vegetables growing over sidewalks “public,” so that even trees rooted in private yards may bear public fruit.

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#10. Forager Eats Traffic Island

Foraging is the identification and collection of wild edible or medicinal plants.

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#11. Trains Grow Salad

Nance Klehm, Foraging Montréal, 2009 photo: CCA

Train tracks can be wild corridors where plants grow because they are in the heart of the industrialized city: trains move long distances and generate strong local winds, carrying along pollen and

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#12. Executive Dines in Dumpster

Food-safety rules do not allow groceries to sell, or in some cases even give away, products that are past their expiry date; additionally, many fruits and vegetables are thrown out for cosmetic rea

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#13. Sticker Rescues Food

Courtesy Adam Bobbette

Food is be sold and eaten under rigid legal and customary rules: expiry dates and cosmetic imperfections result in the disposal of many still-edible foods.

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