Urban Bricolage

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[urbanbricolage]

The rhythm of the swinging movement produces energy to illuminate the Light Swing and to enliven public places during cold and dark season.

source : https://raiviobumann.com/2019/03/light-swing/

[miguelmarquezoutside]

Urban Weed Awards (continued and complete)

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Official-looking plaques drawing attention to plants that are usually considered a nuisance...  

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Repairing the city in Rome:  “The Gap are a secret organisation – instead of carrying out sabotage actions the gappisti make repairs where bureaucracy fails. Find your goal, organise and repair: become a gappista yourself!”

The Guardian are writing about the Gap

[urbanbricolage]

Design for everyone adapts urban furniture so that everyone can use it, including those who wish to lie on it... 

An interesting criticism of “defensive urban design” or “hostile architecture” which is deliberately anti-homeless.

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Hacking a sprinkler to create a public water fountain.

via Rotten Apple

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Traffic barrier picnic table

Via Rotten Apple

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Bus stop DIY seat.

Via Rotten Apple

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This is how Rotten Apple defines what we also call “urban bricolage” 

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Cyclo-phone is a bicycle powered musical instrument. Users create music by pedaling on a stationary bicycle connected to the instrument. By Stereotank in New York (2012)

[urbanbricolage]

Little free library by Stereotank in New York (2013)

[urbanfunscape]

Pop Up Street Furniture

[mymodernmet]

Clever Street Artist Transforms Ordinary Public Places Into Funny Installations

[landscape-stories]

LS 28 | Leisure Time          

Tom Janssen - Parade

magazine.landscapestories.net

[ledepassionne]

Le Bruit du Frigo created Le Tube, a temporary amusement park, in order to experiment the occupation of an unused service road, under a railway crossing the city of Cenon, in the suburbs of Bordeaux (France).

[urbanbricolage]

Portland anarchists are fixing potholes in the street...

Source : It’s going down

[uneven-growth]

Tea House in Beyoglu

The image shows the tactics of a tea house located on a street that is rarely used by the public in Beyoglu, İstanbul. The tea house fights to live and attract customer for itself.

As a first tactic, it starts with small additions (small pillows) on the pavement.

Second, after a while it makes them bigger and more comfortable pillows.

Third, small wooden tables and chairs take the place of pillows.

Finally, they invite street artists to play and sing.

The story in a city starts to attract customers. However, they make the street itself more attractive and livable. The city has its own tactics by citizens in daily life, the important thing is to be aware of and support them.

[uneven-growth]

Urban Foragers {house of eco-drifters}

The Urban Foragers is a series of wearable architectures that transform the confining structure of the hoop skirt into portable shelters and gardens. The Urban Forages are designed to support a flexible way of living that can be adapted to a variety of climate changes. Each outfit promotes growing one’s own food supply, from preserving seeds to planting herbs or harvesting local edible plants, which are integrated into the walls of the skirt. The pivotal design element is a thin wooden base with casters, which can be converted into a cart to facilitate traveling via public transit.

The Mobile Garden Dress is based on a hoop skirt that supports over forty potted plants and also acts as a light domed tent for summer. This piece promotes the planting of edible plants and also acts as an educational tool as the plants are identified with tags.The Nomadik Harvest Dress is based on the Mongolian ger (yurt). The traditional felt membrane of the ger is replaced with a covering made from secondhand wool sweaters, which provide comparable warmth and waterproofing. This dress is equipped with a pot and stove to cook the local vegetables and plants stowed in the sweater’s pockets into a communal soup. The architectural and cultural references for the third outfit, the Traveling Seedbomb Dress is a teepee hybrid equipped for the storing and sharing of seeds. The design is based on a conical shaped skirt, which converts into a larger shelter with the aid of hinged struts. The objective of this project is to link all of the structures together to create communal spaces where food, knowledge and stories are shared.