Collectivity Project

Strolling in Copenhagen this weekend, I came across the Collectivity Project by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The Collectivity Project is Eliasson’s contribution to U-Turn, Copenhagen’s festival for contemporary art. It was great to observe the way in which kids of all ages were interacting with the piece:

“Thousands of white LEGO bricks - potential buildings - will be piled on a tables shaped after an aerial view of Copenhagen. The visitors can move freely between the tables, which each represent one of Copenhagen’s various neighborhoods, and are free to contribute with visionary, humorous or completely unrealistic proposals - come re-build the city of Copenhagen at the city’s most central location!”

Why am I blogging this? Saying that you wanted to do architecture because you played with LEGO bricks was certainly not an entrance ticket to any school. But looking at some of the creation (Above) makes you think about architecture and standardization, curtain walls, prefabrication… Neo-nomads do navigate in standardized and regulated places…