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May 30, 2012

theatlantic:

What’s the Difference Between a Parking Lot and a Playground?

‘Urban hactivist’ Florian Rivière and his DIY guerrilla tactics have transformed even the most ponderous of urban spaces and artifacts into gags, visual puns, and humorous critique. Rivière’s latest project “Don’t Pay, Play” divines sports complexes out of the checkered parking spaces of car parks, rendering what is generally perceived as one of the city’s greatest, yet unavoidable ills into potential public spaces.

See more at The Atlantic Cities. [Images: Julie Roth]

Source: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/20...
Tags Art, Parking lots, Hacktivism, street art, urban intervention, Florian Riviere

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