Public water closet (PWC) detourns the basic function of the two-way mirror, which is to provide systems of power a safe location from which to survey a population to be controlled.
Originally inspired by the system, called "Shinmoon-go" from the early 15th century Korea, reporting to the king unfair treatment of subjects by authorities, this project uses the drum wearer as a
Imagine what might be like to rediscover blindfolded the borough of Alfama: the narrow streets, the smell of grilled sardines, the sound of a Fado that can be heard from afar and so many others sen
"All Along the Watchtower" consists of a mobile foldable tower as a viewing point and non-permanent residence to interact with the cityscape and people.
Skinny Bag® is a psychosomatic aid and remedy, that is to be carried as a rucksack. I case of distress it protects you from hyperstimulation by slipping into its transparent interior.
2 series of arrows, painted the same colour, in a straight line, spaced at random, on an urban sidewalk; each serie in an opposite direction. The series would be one or two blocks long.
“Câble” is the fruit of an intuitive investigation of the layer structure founded in and by public space (its districts, its ways, its passers by, its architectonic).
In an effort to bring a sense of the hollidays to the office building facing this frontyard, a simple walk in a pile of snow creates a snowman invisible to pedestrians, but visible to those working
Tokyo’s landscape is made up of signs, we can say. The letters and characters we see while we walk in the city, is deeply embedded in our minds. We cut off the letters, and collect it.
What do people stop for and how can you convince them to stop for something else? Urbanites are constantly commuting, only pausing to pay for something or to get to someplace else.
A back-mounted contraption features 2 fans and a generator, enabling the operator to walk through hot city streets and offer a cool breeze to pedestrians.
Transforming a narrow alley into an outdoor cinema, students Andrew Wolking, Rachel Isacoff, and Hannah Dewhirst created an exhibition meant to challenge and cross certain boundaries through a crea
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].
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 simple recording of dust and hair balls in an underground tunnel serves as the action. Buildings have a peculiar way to evidence the presence of thresholds.
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].
Although California‘s constitution guarantees public access to the state’s beaches up to the mean high-tide line, this right is often thwarted by property owners with misleading signs, illegal fenc
Map-generation software that provides users with their “of least surveillance” between two locations in New York City, iSee Manhattan uses data collected by groups such as the New York Civil Libert
Project with Lights was a strategy for catalyzing community interest in a piece of land that had been approved for development without much consultation.
An educational device that replicates a portion of Detroit’s residential architecture and urban layout through a system of photographs mounted on metal frames.
A catalogue of anti-sitting devices installed to keep New Yorkers on their feet and off anything they could possibly sit on. Iron-and-steel spikes and railings grow like ivy, covering banisters, wi
A high security “Red Zone” created with 4-metre-tall barricades in the centre of Genoa to protect the leaders of the Group of Eight during their 2001 summit.
A street-cleaning project involving the construction of rubble piles in an underpass connecting Paulo VI Avenue to Doctor Arnaldo Avenue in São Paulo, preventing homeless people from sleeping there
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
The Austrian civil engineer Hermann Knoflacher developed the Gehzeug, or walkmobile, in 1975 to allow a pedestrian to approximate the amount of space taken by a motorist.
A Galvanic Skin Response unit with a GPS transmitter that records the physiological arousal of its wearer on the principal of a lie detector, the Bio Mapping apparatus records user responses as the
Can automobiles, bicycles, and pedestrians share streets without the mediation of traffic lights, road signs, and designated lanes? Planning proposals initiated by the Space movement in a variety o
A strike called by unions and student groups in support of the opposition political party turned into a protest against the dismissal of the governors of Venezuela’s state oil corporations.
A study of the capacity of nightclubs to convert to environmentally sustainable practices, the Sustainable Dance Club uses a system of floor tiles that generate energy when compressed to power ligh