Macro Sea has reportedly laid plans to put dumpster pools in strip mall parking lots in Brooklyn to demonstrate the creative re-use of refuse bins.
The project is part of Macro Sea’s broader vision to denude the American strip mall of its common characteristics and curate the space through collaboration with architects and artists, such as Vito Acconci of Seedbed fame, to enhance community. Jocko Weyland, editor-at-large of Open City Magazine and author of The Answer is Never – A Skateboarder’s History of the World (Grove 2002), is the Project Director.
Perhaps this is an offshoot of the cool and curious conversion of dumpsters into pools, gardens, and skateboard ramps that has already caused a ripple in London.
Brooklyn is also the site of the secret underground climbing speakeasy, where climbers have crawled vertically (due to space constrictions) in an atmosphere of pot smoke and beer, for nearly twenty years.
