OUR BENCH DIALOGUE

There is a growing crackdown designed to maintain order in public spaces. Permanent fixtures in cities are designed to perform a specific function and the designer can modify them with the intention of discouraging, restricting and reducing their “misuse”. However, failure is not by design: when a piece of street furniture breaks, the object and the space it occupies are no longer functional. The project seeks to restore functionality to dysfunctional spaces in the city, suggesting new ways of occupying public space that, as a first premise, enable anyone to appropriate this space. Our Bench Dialogue is a project in which benches in the street are repaired and a series of mutable prostheses are added, calling for the deprivatisation and decapitalisation of urban public spaces, so that people can take direct responsibility for them.

The project has been supported by Santiago Cirugeda.

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