Improvement of public space is a hot topic these days. All kinds of idea makers seem to expand the function of the public realm by adding new objects, both legally and illegally, that serve fresh activities. Ali Pulver, the woman behind Pop-Up Lunch, must have been slightly frustrated about the lack of places to have lunch in public space in Manhattan. Where should we eat? “Sometimes I just wish there was a place right next to the carts to just saddle up and tuck in”, Midtown Lunch writes (neat blog by the way). Yeah, there are parks and stuff, but why not start a ‘sidewalk eating’ project?
“I am exploring how nontraditional public spaces – like sidewalks – might be easily transformed into lively places to lunch. This blog follows a series of Pop-Up Lunches I have staged (some big, some small) and my development of mobile eating tools designed for the sidewalks of NYC.”
And so she did. On his blog, Ali shows all kinds of interventions she did to make having lunch more easy on the busy sidewalks of New York City, and to rethink the function of the sidewalk of being “more than just pathways”. Furthermore, she hopes to stimulate fellow New Yorkers to act in the same way. Power to the pop-up lunch!
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thanks so much for the coverage but i’m a lady!
Sorry Ali!
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[...] Some time ago we already paid attention to the great and inventive Pop-Up Lunch initiative by New York-based Alexandra Pulver. She changes public urban places into temporary lunch spots by adding designed pop-up furniture. All her designs are easy to take and can be removed when you’re done. Here we show just another great example of her work — a stylish lunch bag that can be instantly transformed into a seat. With two solid clips, the bag can be attached to all sorts of fences (which are pervasive in cities these days), and voilà, there’s your pop-up lunch spot. “I am exploring how nontraditional public spaces – like sidewalks – might be easily transformed into lively places to lunch. This blog follows a series of Pop Up Lunches I have staged (some big, some small) and my development of mobile eating tools designed for the sidewalks of NYC. Ultimately, I hope that my efforts might inspire even a handful of my fellow urbanites to reconsider the potential for lunch – to be a joyful daily event – and for the sidewalks of NYC to serve as more than just pathways. This project was all part of my Master’s thesis as a graduate student of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute.” [...]