Crowdsourcing the FFA for public art (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

Awesome- thanks for the update, looks great. cool/interesting art is always thought-provoking for me.. as such, some questions:

is there plumbing nearby, or do the "people" have to gunga-din it over there? do the same people pick the cigarettes out of the planters? maybe I've been in NYC too long, but I have zero faith in my fellow man to be nice about sharing herbs- I'd expect those plants to be picked clean pronto... or are the plants meant to be taken home IN their planters?

can the plants grow up (are there wires or other support to encourage them to create a screen?

what happens in the winter?

can you explain the separate "pens"? at first I thought something do with wheelchairs, but then realized nope.

 

[Nugget]

Would love to see these in Lawrence.  We have many bus stops with no seating or shelter from the elements.  Neighbors were putting old couches and chairs out for people to sit.  This would be so much cooler.

What were the costs for this and is it something you think you would do again?  

 

[mr. furley]

Skee-Ball rocks!

We are working on an open streets event for our New Rochelle, NY project and love pop up ideas and activation of public spaces.

is Sadat X prominently involved?

 

[the moops]

Awesome- thanks for the update, looks great. cool/interesting art is always thought-provoking for me.. as such, some questions:

is there plumbing nearby, or do the "people" have to gunga-din it over there? do the same people pick the cigarettes out of the planters? maybe I've been in NYC too long, but I have zero faith in my fellow man to be nice about sharing herbs- I'd expect those plants to be picked clean pronto... or are the plants meant to be taken home IN their planters?

can the plants grow up (are there wires or other support to encourage them to create a screen?

what happens in the winter?

can you explain the separate "pens"? at first I thought something do with wheelchairs, but then realized nope.

Thanks for taking the time to ask questions!

To answer a few.

There is not plumbing nearby. We negotiated with the Mpls downtown council to have them provide watering for the plants. We shall see if they follow through. A good chance all these plants die soon.

There are people to clean up. The Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District (folks who hired us) do routine cleaning of streets/graffiti/public art/etc. This is on their radar and will be looked at more closely.

If people pick the plants clean, so be it. We can replant some if need be. I have more faith in fellow man, but you are probably right, that they will soon be picked over. But

We also have plant giveways on Thursdays.

This is only a pilot program, that was intended to last 2 weeks. County officials like what they saw, so they want to extend it to 60 days . Which is cool, but also damn ####### annoying. The budget should be higher and material selection would change if the project was a 2 month thing, compared to a 2 week thing.

The plants will not grow up. Sight lines was a big thing for Metro Transit. They "needed" people to be able to see down the street for a bus so we were limited in height of plants.

The separate pens were needed for stability. The location that we have, we were not allowed to anchor into the ground at all. We needed the pen looking shape to provide many contact points with the brick. We also wanted a front and back. The front is for folks waiting for the bus. The back faces a little park and a farmers market. There will be people making use of those back pens to sell their flowers, or such ####. 

 

[the moops]

Would love to see these in Lawrence.  We have many bus stops with no seating or shelter from the elements.  Neighbors were putting old couches and chairs out for people to sit.  This would be so much cooler.

What were the costs for this and is it something you think you would do again?  

Would absolutely do this again.

The cost in materials for this project was somewhere near 2500 bucks (plants and soil + lumber + roofing material + fasteners). Just a guess, for I dont deal with the finances in our operation (our operation is two of us - My good buddy Troy and I). We were paid 10 grand for the project. It involved more than just building a shelter. We needed to investigate sites, determine needs of users, propose a few designs, redesign based on feedback, build the thing, take it down, and provide a report on "findings".

Probably not one of our most lucrative projects, but a lot of my design time is spent late at night while drinking and messing around on my computer. so I tend to not consider that much of work. Took a couple days to build the shelter. A day to plant. A day to install. Had to water every day while plants were taking root. If I added up all the hours, maybe be 120 hours for the two of us?

Cheers