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Bringing People Together with Benches
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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[quote] 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.
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.
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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Re: Bringing People Together with Benches
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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