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#1. Pink Puffs Roll Instant Playground

Topotek 1 Temporary Playground: Garden Show, Wolfsburg, 2004 © Hans Joosten

Twenty-four inflatable pink rubber objects and fifteen foam cubes were installed in a temporary playground beside a horse pasture in Wolfsburg, Germany, for the 2004 State Garden Show.

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#2. Mapping the Incomplete Creates Housing

Abandoned construction sites are found in all cities. The French architectural team Coloco, founded in 1999, scouts and maps “skeletal” structures.

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#3. Tokyo Disassembles for Easy Recycling

Recycling Tokyo, 2008 ©Atelier Bow-Wow

Forty-three proposals for the recycling of an entire city critical of helplessness in the face of a environment exhausted of possibility.

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#4. Reclaim Vacant Lot with What City’s Got

A proposal made to the city of Seville for legislation to assist in the temporary transformation of public and private solares – vacant lots walled off for security – into public spaces for at leas

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#5. It Can Only Be Made From Trash

A book, website (superuse.org), and the Recyclicity foundation were created to familiarize and connect designers with material detritus from construction rubble and garbage waste to revitalize aban

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#6. Carbon Credits Build Micro-Projects

SuperNeutral MicroSites project panels and business plan, OUA, 2007 © Andrea Brennen, Shirley Shen, John Snavely

A proposal for a group of landowners and the Office for Unsolicited Architecture (OUA) to design projects on microsites such as lawns and alleys between houses, with payment as carbon credits.

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