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)

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

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

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.

Hacking a sprinkler to create a public water fountain.

via Rotten Apple

Traffic barrier picnic table

Via Rotten Apple

Bus stop DIY seat.

Via Rotten Apple

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

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)

Little free library by Stereotank in New York (2013)

urbanfunscape:

Pop Up Street Furniture

landscape-stories:

LS 28 | Leisure Time          

Tom Janssen - Parade

magazine.landscapestories.net

vonsontag:

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).

Portland anarchists are fixing potholes in the street…

Source : It’s going down