Lean, an urban speculation
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Melbourne, like all cities, is purpose-built. This particularly becomes clear when you observe its inhabitants strutting their stride to perform their lucid rituals. These rituals are well serviced by restaurants, shopping strips, public transport, universities, libraries etc. The interaction between the parties involved is clear, mutually agreed upon quick besides transcational. Lean offers to slow down the pace offering a chance for incidental connection and reflection by giving the existing elements of the city such as bollards, walls, lamp posts a secondary function- to lean on. The furniture aims to facilitate active, fun (hopefully), and open states of mind moving away from overused, formal and rigid sedentary seats. The project inspires a new type of association to testing sites where visitors can feel free-er and less stressed away from the restricted and instructive city signs and furniture such as graphical road signs or lack or comfortable seating in lane-ways that prescribe rules and ways to occupy the city. This project explores the acceptance of alternative seating such as those offered by stairs, walls and in some places floors (state library). |
