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The art works of Clément Bagot are combining large and micro scale. In fact, the distance between the observer and the art piece define the size of the worlds that Bagot is creating. In the one hand he's producing huge drawing like cartography or large scale microscopic views and in the other hand he's crafting impressiv models of citys, tower, floating islands. All of those are higly detailed and made of paper, cardboard, wood and plexiglas.

That is how ends our thematic about SMALL. We're a bit sorry not to have found a real coherency with it, but what we can extract from this, would probably be that SMALL is definetely a human scale which can possibly be built by a small group of people trying to express their creativity. Size, economy, technicity, involvement are issues which can, most of the time, be proceed by a small amount of persons and therefore can make a lot of projects happenning. SMALL in public space can thus, be a sum of discreet participation of people to the democratic construction. picture: Oliver Bishop-Young 's garbage dumpster

That is how ends our thematic about SMALL. We're a bit sorry not to have found a real coherency with it, but what we can extract from this, would probably be that SMALL is definetely a human scale which can possibly be built by a small group of people trying to express their creativity. Size, economy, technicity, involvement are issues which can, most of the time, be proceed by a small amount of persons and therefore can make a lot of projects happenning. SMALL in public space can thus, be a sum of discreet participation of people to the democratic construction. picture: Oliver Bishop-Young 's garbage dumpster

Luz intima is a guerrilla intervention in la calle del Pez in Madrid where the collective, Luzinterruptus installed twenty six domestic shades on urban lights. This operation lasted for one night. It is a quite discreet appropriation of public space which I hope would give some motivation for other people to act on commun space. found on dezeen

Luz intima is a guerrilla intervention in la calle del Pez in Madrid where the collective, Luzinterruptus installed twenty six domestic shades on urban lights. This operation lasted for one night. It is a quite discreet appropriation of public space which I hope would give some motivation for other people to act on commun space. found on dezeen

Local river is the last published project of paris based office Matthieu Lehanneur (with Anthony van den Bossche), which proposes a "locavore" (people who only eat food produced in a radius of 100 miles of them) tool of producing local fish food and vegetables with an absolute control of its owner. Beyond the beautiful design, I do suspect it to be full of irony (at least I hope), by giving such a litteral and luxurious proposition. It was exhibited this year in Artists Space in New York.

Local river is the last published project of paris based office Matthieu Lehanneur (with Anthony van den Bossche), which proposes a "locavore" (people who only eat food produced in a radius of 100 miles of them) tool of producing local fish food and vegetables with an absolute control of its owner. Beyond the beautiful design, I do suspect it to be full of irony (at least I hope), by giving such a litteral and luxurious proposition. It was exhibited this year in Artists Space in New York.

Ballule Gilles Ebersolt is a French architect, particulary interested in small often inflatable structures created either for landing on an amazonian canopee, living above an abyss or rolling down a mountain (Ebersolt was in fact asked by Jackie Chan to film his ballule in one of his movie). More pictures and videos on official website . Solvin Bretzel Ikos Tetrafolt

Ballule Gilles Ebersolt is a French architect, particulary interested in small often inflatable structures created either for landing on an amazonian canopee, living above an abyss or rolling down a mountain (Ebersolt was in fact asked by Jackie Chan to film his ballule in one of his movie). More pictures and videos on official website . Solvin Bretzel Ikos Tetrafolt

Camelbackshotgunspongegarden is a project created by the San Francisco based office Anderson Anderson Architecture after New Orleans' catastrophe in order to prevent floods by swallowing - at least in a certain amount - additionnal water. The project is here exhibited in Venice's Biennal 2006 and it may be not so easy to see on the lowest picture but the device is partly within the water.

Camelbackshotgunspongegarden is a project created by the San Francisco based office Anderson Anderson Architecture after New Orleans' catastrophe in order to prevent floods by swallowing - at least in a certain amount - additionnal water. The project is here exhibited in Venice's Biennal 2006 and it may be not so easy to see on the lowest picture but the device is partly within the water.

Before a longuest article about Usman Haque 's work very soon, here is one of his little creations: the Configurable T-shirt. This is a t-shirt for which the wearer designs what goes on the front, a further experiment in how to design low-tech systems that are open enough to allow for other people's designs yet specific enough to provide an intriguing starting point. It's often difficult to design on a completely blank canvas, so this t-shirt provides a matrix of pixels that can be coloured in with a black felt-tip pen in order to turn them "off". The t-shirt is printed with rubber foam ink so that the black pen ink soaks in really well. As the t-shirt fabric colour is already black it doesn't matter if people go out of the lines or if the pen is too fat: it won't show up. As long as an entire pixel is coloured-in, it will look neat and tidy, just like a professionally designed and printed t-shirt. see official page

Before a longuest article about Usman Haque 's work very soon, here is one of his little creations: the Configurable T-shirt. This is a t-shirt for which the wearer designs what goes on the front, a further experiment in how to design low-tech systems that are open enough to allow for other people's designs yet specific enough to provide an intriguing starting point. It's often difficult to design on a completely blank canvas, so this t-shirt provides a matrix of pixels that can be coloured in with a black felt-tip pen in order to turn them "off". The t-shirt is printed with rubber foam ink so that the black pen ink soaks in really well. As the t-shirt fabric colour is already black it doesn't matter if people go out of the lines or if the pen is too fat: it won't show up. As long as an entire pixel is coloured-in, it will look neat and tidy, just like a professionally designed and printed t-shirt. see official page

Santiago Cirugeda is a spanish architect, founder of the office Recetas Urbanas which regulary creates project playing with legality. In fact, he succeed to interpret the law and to go around it in order to create benefit for public/social place. PUZZLE-HOUSEThe Closet Stratagem - Recycling unused empty lots. - Available legal options. - Versatile occupation structure. - Temporary locations per year. - Mockery of the cardboard patrimony. - Impermanent urban infiltration. - Systematic shaking of the legislation. The subsequent occupations of empty lots with the closet strategy came into being, in a personal manner, from my living experience in the Puzzle-House, situated for one month in the Plaza de la Mina of Cadiz. A attitude to situated at the very limits of the legal, an intellectual embezzlement, which emancipates itself from what urban planning proposes as the patrimony of the stone cardboard or from what the old city is beginning to look like, that is, an inhabitable amusement p...