Bike rack folding seat
Pop-up library
Urban hammock
Rotten Apple summarizes its purpose in quote from Austrian designer and advocate of environmental responsibility Victor Papanek, who once stated, “design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical in the truest sense. It must dedicate itself to (…) maximum diversity with minimum inventory (…) or doing the most with the least.” The idea here is to see sustainability everywhere without taking for granted that any given object or urban attribute can serve only its intended function. By pinpointing the intersection of fun, renewability, and urbanism, Rotten Apple seeks to keep environmentalism from going stagnant in cities by encouraging creativity in conjunction with efficiency.