Interventions

With limited public space for children to play in Mexico City, an underused historic fountain has transformed into a lively urban playground.

Citizens of The Hague have the opportunity to swap their parking space for extra public space. Will this make urbanites reconsider car use?

Next level place-branding — the Dutch province of Friesland welcomed visitors with a road singing the regional anthem as they drove over it.

The city of Brussels clearly lacks outdoor swimming facilities. To change that, local initiative POOL IS COOL took the initiative to build pop-up pools for the people.

Guerrilla Grafters are providing urbanites with a new way to access fruit by grafting branches of fruit trees onto ordinary ornamental city trees.

As a protest against the overabundance of advertising on the streets of New York, the Art in Ad Places project temporarily put 55 artworks on display on pay phone booths.

Urban hactivism collective Mesajer Urbanos recently launched an intervention in Mexico City in which potholes on the streets were filled with exotic flowers and plants.

To brighten up people’s daily commute, design agency HIK Ontwerp installed a gate at Utrecht Central Station that gives each passer-by a small compliment.

Street art collective Kamp Seedorf are renaming streets in Amsterdam to address the hipsterfication of the Dutch capital.