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8 CCA Actions

#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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#53. Ventilation System Builds Houses

DIY Instructions for tents that inflate from building air-vents, L’itinéraire -le magazine des grandes causes, volume XVI, numéro 2, 15 January, 2009

ParaSITE is a construction system for DIY urban shelters heated and inflated by exhaust from building ventilation and heating systems.

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Guerrilla

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#32. Walls Turned into Ground

Parkour Montréal, 2007 © Rachel Granofsky

Parkour is a style of movement through the city invented by the Frenchmen David Belle and Sébastien Foucan in the late 1980s and now practiced worldwide.

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#33. Sliding Activates Roof’s Unplanned Playfulness

Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brasil, 2005. © Ciro Miguel

Since its construction in 1954, the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Lucas Nogueira Garcez Pavilion in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park has been used as a playground by adventurous youths. Known locally as the ,

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#34. Rope Conquers Roof

Research into a portable DIY building-bridging system that connects ground spaces with interstices and rooftops.

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#36. Newspaper Protests Climbers Who Protest

The horizontal ceramic rods which veil the recently completed New York Times Building provided an ideal opportunity for urban climbers to get media attention for their causes; for French “spiderman

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Friction

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#37. Day Students Climb by Night

For centuries, the gothic landscape of Cambridge University’s colleges has proven a temptation for many of its young students to climb. Whether for the danger, the sport or merely to avoid being lo

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Friction

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