Ah'bé Landscape Architects

Category: Park[ing] location

All Day Event (depending on parking enforcement)

“Do you have open space in your life?”

ah’bé landscape architects will ask passer-by this question on Friday, September 21st, 2007 from their PARK(ing) spot in Downtown Culver City. Pedestrians, bikers, lunch-goers, the curious, and maybe even a few drivers will have the opportunity to answer by exploring our parked park.

Our park will be an eye-catcher. Bright orange traffic cones will be re-purposed as vases and will double as a sunflower filled edge and safety barrier. The cone-vases can be moved around throughout the day and re-positioned at anyone’s whim. The asphalt will be covered with green artificial turf and we’ll have a few inviting places to sit down available as well (furniture will be sponsored by Landscape Forms).

Visitors will have the opportunity to participate in the space by jotting down their thoughts about our question posed to them in a guest book/on slips of paper/on materials that will join the tall flowers. Comments collected will be incorporated into a larger document to be posted on our website as a record of the event. We will also have coffee grounds available to give away that will be collected throughout the day from the Starbucks Coffee Shop we are PARK(ed) next to.