Modular street furniture
via Flickr: moses_namkung
We’ve been thinking about modular urban furniture lately, and not just because Bushwaffle went, en mass, to the Treasure Island Music Festival this weekend. We ran across this: in Budapest, Hungary the PRCCCS festival held an event last week that asked: What kind of street furniture would you make with 140 30-liter plastic drums? This carries forward a theme we’ve been exploring since Experimenta 2008 in Amsterdam last year and our residency at Texas A&M University, and to which GRL contributed some brilliance a few years ago with their Postal Chairs. And here in San Francisco, design students have been experimenting with “catch and release” DPW Adirondack chairs.
via Vimeo: Gergely Kukucska
We’re not sure what the Hungarian festival was all about–because all of the materials are in Hungarian–but it brings to mind the many lightweight, mass-produced objects in our detritus stream that could be pressed into service for grassroots customization of urban spaces.
