Bus stop at Hunter Street
Posted: February 18, 2010 Filed under: art, community, design, interventions, participation, recycling, social space | Tags: Australia, bus stop, Jo Vaughan, Newcastle, public transport, shelter, Victoria Lobregat Leave a comment »
I love this work in Newcastle, Australia. It was a collaboration between architect Jo Vaughan and artist Victoria Lobregat where they created a bus stop out of recycled materials complete with furniture and ornaments – I can just imagine the conversations that happened there that would never have taken place without the shelter. It was only temporary (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing) but there was no vandalism! Brilliant. http://greenteam.blogspot.com/2008/02/catch-bus-from-your-living-room.html
city as a resource
Posted: February 5, 2010 Filed under: art, city, community, recycling, social space | Tags: Berlin, City as reource, dreams, Folke Kobberling, Martin Kaltwasser, shelter Leave a comment »
Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser have been a huge inspiration. They are an artist/architect couple working in Berlin and one of their projects involved building a house overnight in an unused area of Berlin completely out of recycled material. They then proceeded to live in the house for a week, with their kids. This caused a lot of curiosity and the place became an impromptu meeting place for local residents. Their book “City as a resource” is really interesting…
