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Bringing People Together with Benches
DIR By: Mac
Date: February 2, 2013, 4:21 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Bringing People Together with Benches[/glow]
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> Jeppe Hein, a Danish artist known for creating experiential
art, has put an interesting twist on park benches by populating
the town of De Haan in Belgium with his eye-catching “modified
social benches.” The benches, which range from the
super-comfy-looking to the seemingly unsittable, are intended to
bring people together in unexpected ways and make them more
aware of their surroundings.
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> While they look enough like traditional park benches to be
recognizable as something you sit on, Hein’s benches have
features that break the park bench mold: tight angles, slopes,
missing pieces, loops, dips, closed circles and more. With their
unusual shapes, the benches are conversation starters and people
magnets and they add a fun touch to public spaces.
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> Of the benches Hein says, “With their modification, the spaces
they inhabit become active rather than places of rest and
solitude; they foster exchange between the users and the
passers-by, thus lending the work a social quality.”
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> Read more:
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Re: Bringing People Together with Benches
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 2, 2013, 4:29 pm
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I like the "Slide" Bench, but that's only if a hot chick is
wearing a dress and I'm down below.
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