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Amidst the public protests for corruption scandals in Spain during January 2013, Luzinterruptus decided to protest in their own original way!  The action was very simple, they just used a few completely harmless, small, ...

25 minutes of protest in Smoke

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Just a few weeks ago we published a short excerpt from Jane Jacobs' 'Death and Life of Great American Cities', where she explains why street lighting alone is not enough to ensure street safety. According to Jacobs proper ...

Lack of street lighting in San Diego

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This 3m tall and 144m long piece by Jason Bruges studio presents a virtual platform filled with passengers shadows within a glass block wall in the Sunderland Station in North East London. Beautifully documented by ...

Platform 5 by Jason Bruges

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Mirror is an urban earthwork created by Dough Aitken in Seattle. It is a downtown museum that changes in real time responding to the movements and life around it. Check also our previous post on Dough Aitken's work ...

Mirror

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The installation Spectra is a column of intense white light that punctuated the London sky from dusk until dawn for seven nights from the 4th till the 11th of August this year. Made by artist Ryoji Ikeda as part of the ...

Just seen in London!

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While in Wyckerpoort we worked together with the neighborhood inhabitants to decide upon the color compositions for the staircase windows through a workshop, in the area of Mariaberg we decided to create an experience that ...

Color ex Machina

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Setting up the Color ex Machina installation around Fatimaplein in ...

Color ex Machina in the ground!

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Apart from creating a spectacular interior in the staircases around Old Hickoryplein, Mosaic is giving color to the streets surrounding the square during the ...

Mosaic

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We are very happy that setting up the two light installations in Maastricht is now completed! This is 'Mosaic' an installation inspired by the history of Old Hickoryplein in Wyckerpoort. The square took the place of an ...

Mosaic in daytime

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It hasn't been long since we published Luzinterruptus Personal Reading in Public Sites project. But Public Toilets is one of our all time favorites. We have all had this very unpleasant experience of going back home late ...

Public Toilets

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Disinfecting water using the natural UV rays of the sun is a common practice in the developing world. However the time needed for water to be exposed in the sun varies depending on the climate conditions and this can become ...

Solar disinfection

Reading

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Putting together the big red spotlights for 'Color ex Machina' has been a really big challenge for beforelight. We experimented with new technologies and we learned a lot. This would not have happened without Philips ...

Many thanks!

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