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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]
Playing like this should not just happen in the art world. I think this would be a great exercise for a Social Studies class, or even a History or English class.
“How can urban spaces be reclaimed as commons?”
“What places in your neighborhood are inviting? What places do you avoid?”
“How might you change them to be more welcoming?”
“What was here before it was _________?”
“What is the history of your neighborhood?”
“What places connect you to where you live?”
Those are just a few questions this post brought up for me.
-Adventures in Learning
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