Actions for Playing

A 2 week street olympics that celebrated the power of informal sports to humanize public space.

UN-USEFUL exercises require to transform a real existent building, site, space, etc. into something astonishing, with lightness and poetry, in order to make people full of wonder [wonder-full].

A research project into the practice of street football in Barcelona, culminating in the takeover of an empty building plot to make way for a football pitch.

Inaugural 24-Hour Wallball Olympiad

Wallball is a beautiful, spontaneous game -- one that can erupt almost anywhere and on any surface in the city.

Our action creates movement through out the city of Ann Arbor through a series of experiences suggested by students at the University of Michigan.

Using indoor public space as a platform for skate boarding, inaugurating fresh floors and just getting around endlessly long institutional hallways.

Non-profit organization dedicated to combatting Montreal's absurd anti-street food laws.

Foodie Flashmob comes from playing the game publicCITY at activistarchitecture.com. It's all about dining everywhere but the dining room, and inviting the public to join in the feast!

Urban Swings come from playing the publicCITY game at www.activistarchitecture.com.

Have a Seat is Caroline Woolard’s gesture towards reclaiming public space. It is a platform for a new vantage point on the street.

Emperor Penguins - mostly the males - shelter their eggs in the Antarctic winter by huddling together in very large groups.

I worked with engineering technicians to reconfigure a swing set and placed it in the public sphere. People were allowed to interact with the work.

private spaces in the public realm

The Terraced Park Coalition (TPC) is an ongoing project, and marks my first large-scale endeavor involving interactive installation and performance.

installation / space for use

> Steel pipe triangular structure (3 meter long each side), first cover with army camouflage net, ending with black "pondfoil"

Two streets. A pedestrian-only one, a mixed use one.
Their intersection: tension, clash, danger.

For the series digital art in public space: "Replicating architecture" is an interactive video installation for a site-specific place.

Two streets. A pedestrian-only one, a mixed use one.
Their intersection: tension, clash, danger.

Exercise that proposes a different kind of physical engagement.

By connecting graffiti everywhere in the city, thus we construct amorphous museum. From ugly to beautiful, there are many kinds of graffiti in the city.

public heat is an installation that shows how public art can be a public service.

A kit for having party in the public space. Champagne, snacks, cans, napkin, bow tie, all these things which participants need to take part in the party is in a round bag for each participant.

(Matrix with Madori(Japanese word for room layout))

In the historic center of Lisbon during the last decades the graffiti, street art, and other forms of individual creative expression had been acomulated into an intense situation.