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Is it real? Can I touch it? Although we are all familiar with green lawns in front of houses, the same grass in a Manhattan parking space seems so foreign that such questions become common.
Social Parking is a merging of two conditions, commuter parking and community green space.
When social paking was brought to a random street parking spot in Manhattan for a day, the juxtaposition of park space in a parking space was dramatic. Acting on the most minimal of architectural moves, simply altering the nature of space, it created a maximal range of possibilities.
"A parking space transformed into a refined object-in new meaning or symbolic content." Architectural Critic Peter Lang
Since this unassuming afternoon in 2004, Social Parking has inspired many people and is a reminder of how powerful a little bit of unexpected social interaction can become.
Team
Oswald Samuels, Franky Antimisiaris(mab), Andrew Mikhael
social parking