Pants fitted with high-tension cords, metal clips, and a reinforced seat, the Flee Suspend Pants can be attached to almost any surface, transforming it into a space for people to swing.
The Table Tennis Fence subverts the fence as a dividing element. A built-in ping pong table can be opened for neighbours to play with each other, transforming the fence into a meeting place.
Unable to construct a balcony for his apartment legally, Santiago Cirugeda vandalized the building with spray paint, then requested a construction permit for scaffolding to allow him to remove the
A strategy for autonomous construction in Seville, the Casa Rompecabeza, or “Puzzle House,” was built on an empty lot with the approval of the landowner.
Operation: Ivy League is a project to plant ivy on corporate London architecture. It is a natural appropriation organized by residents and commuters as an attack on dull and homogeneous buildings.
Richard Reynolds, or Richard 001, as he is known in the Guerillagardening.org organization, descends on traffic islands, forgotten parks, public gardens, and roadway edges with troops around the wo
Pedestrian procession with mobile zebra pedestrian crossing, Gerhard Lang, Helmut Aebischer, Ruth Jureczek, 1993 (Photo Angela Siever / Courtesy of University of Kassel, Germany)
A DIY answer to the question: how can pedestrians legally cross a street wherever they want to, and not only at the whim of traffic planners?
Toronto’s Urban Repair Squad grew tired of waiting for municipal authorities to create adequate bicycle lanes and began to install their own DIY infrastructure, encouraging others to take action ag
A pilot project for productive planting, Victory Gardens revived eponymous programs created in the United States, Canada, and Britain for producing food during the First World War.
Love Apples is the experimental settlement of Los Angeles traffic islands by tomato plants. Some of the most visible land in the city, traffic islands are marginal, ignored, and rarely planted.
Seed bombs are mixtures of clay, humus, and seeds designed to sustain seed growth – like the yolk of an egg – until the plant can interact with the environment.