Urfun Lab...city Installation in Surat, India
Urfun Lab consists of a body of young professionals ranging from architects, urban designers, graphic designers, landscape architects, to event managers, just to name a few. but when it comes to urfun lab, these classifications, titles or individual names do not hold any importance. the only thing driving all them is their love for the city and desperation to have have fun.
They say about their project:
'We are used to look at cities with a bird's eye point of view, whereby a lot of small details are overlooked or lost. Inverting this approach, urfun lab looked at a very specific situation of a city through a worm's eye view, trying a small scale gesture that enriches the environment. This might not be affecting the whole city, but as an idea to do so. Storm water pipes are a common sight through the city and are eyesores until they get buried. The ideal situation is where the evening's sun filters through the pipes to cast patterns on the road. For our installation, all we did was cover these industrial pipes with colored cellophane paper, turning them into a vivid public-art installation instead of allowing them to remain as ungainly stacks by the roadside.
It is meant to be a symbolic gesture on how to respond to our immediate environment. this spontaneous act was carried out by a handful of urfan-lab volunteers on a lazy sunday morning in the city of surat, where urban art is still an unimaginable phenomenon.'
It is meant to be a symbolic gesture on how to respond to our immediate environment. this spontaneous act was carried out by a handful of urfan-lab volunteers on a lazy sunday morning in the city of surat, where urban art is still an unimaginable phenomenon.'
The beauty of the simple things...