Love apples
Transforming unused traffic islands in Los Angeles into urban gardens, inviting participants to engage with the city's public spaces in a new way.
Initiator(s)
Fallen Fruit, Islands LA
Description
The initiators, in collaboration with residents, planted 72 tomato plants in 12 traffic islands around the city. Tomatoes were planted on empty and irrigated public space to suggest an alternative use and occupation of the public space. Users were invited to sample but not hoard the produce. At the end of the project, a map was created to invite users to discover these new urban spaces and taste the tomatoes.
Goals
The project tested the definition and use of public space in the city of Los Angeles, imagining new ways in which such spaces could be utilised differently.
Beneficial outcomes
The re-use of public spaces and the fact that public sampled the tomatoes.
Location
United States
Users
Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young), Islands of LA (created by Ari Kletzky), citizens of LA
Maintained by
Fallen Fruit/Islands LA
Duration
2008
Category
Scientific
Pedagogical
Politics
Urban Development
Economy
Environment
Social
