headkleaner

This design is amazing.  It was created out of 250,000 euro cents and is visually stunning. It will be interesting to hear how the public actually interacts with this piece seeing it is actually 2,500 Euros laying there on the ground!  Information from the curators website below…

ExperimentaDesign

Droog Design and Scott Burnham have assembled a team of some of the most innovative designers and architects from around the world to create 13 newly designed interventions, tools, toys and objects that are temporarily placed along a route on the central IJ-riverfront in Amsterdam. Reversing the traditional approach to urban design, in which objects and areas are created explicitly to discourage public interaction and intervention, this collection of objects will be created to encourage interaction and physical engagement by the public.
Urban Play poses the question that we hear so much about the “creative city”, but when to we actually get to see it in action?
Inhabitants and visitors who come across the installed elements of Urban Play along the route are challenged to bring the objects to their next level.
Through the creative intervention and input by the city’s residents, this experiment in urban design begins raising political and social questions for the city itself. How much tolerance does a city have for its residents to interact with the physical city? Does it support their creative input and a direct involvement in its design? Does Urban Play ultimately become a period of amnesty for the city’s residents to play with and in the urban landscape? Which design proposals will the city authorities allow, and which ones will be blocked – and what does this say about the freedom of the city’s residents to be creative in their own town, and who makes those decisions?

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