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#87. Table Attracts Neighbours

Hypothèses d’amarrages, Montréal, 2001- 2003 Photograph by Luc Lévesque © SYN-

A series of related spatial “moorings” and “insertions” composed of mobile pool, foosball, and picnic tables designed to offer residents opportunities for easy interaction with trivialized urban sp

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#88. Herbs Move Office Workers Outside

A kitchen garden planted in a simple wood structure on Copenhagen’s office park harbour front.

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#89. Tubs of Dirt Transform Concrete Campus

© Leila Marie Farah

The Edible Campus project demonstrates that underutilized concrete spaces can be unobtrusively made edible with little effort and low cost.

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#91. Adoption Centre Saves Plants

© The Wayward Plant Registry

The Halfway Home for Wayward Plants took in unwanted plants and common weeds from seven community gardens in New York City and offered them to visitors for adoption.

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#92. Truck Tires Relax Pedestrians

Lazy chairs installed in Durban, Jan Körbes, 2008

Thirty “Lazy” chairs and fifteen “Four-Meal Drive” picnic tables made out of tires were put in a public park, allowing people to rest. A public market grew up around the site in Durban.

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#93. Benches Bring People Back

© WHAT IF: projects Ltd. 2006

A strategy for utilizing marginal land around Toxteth, Liverpool, through the installation of benches.

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#98. Giant Letters Undo Perspective

The Novak graphic design firm was inspired by their work on the Actions book to take their own action: graphic design taken for a walk.

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#98. Des lettres géantes renversent la perspective

La firme de design graphique Novak fut inspirée à passer à l’action par leur propre travail sur le catalogue Actions : porter le design graphique à l’extérieur.

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