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Bringing People Together with Benches
« on: February 02, 2013, 02:21:47 pm »
Bringing People Together with Benches



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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.

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.”

Read more: http://www.utne.com/arts-culture/bringing-people-together-with-benches.aspx#ixzz2Jmbk9tRF







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Re: Bringing People Together with Benches
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2013, 02:29:39 pm »
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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