Cascoland
2007 - 2010 · Cascoland · Cultural
Refunc at Cascoland South Africa Refunc joined Cascoland’s international team working townships from Cape Town’s New Crossroads through Johannesburg to Durban. Western luxury, transport, tools, budget, provided access local communities lacked. Yet hands and minds collaborated to demonstrate public space transformation using readily available materials. Through practice and experiment, the projects showed how discarded industrial materials could reclaim public territory. The work emphasized direct action over theory—transforming street corners and vacant lots with what townships already contained. Material wasn’t scarce; recognition of its potential was. Each intervention proved that taking over public space requires vision and available resources, though privilege determines who possesses the means to act first.
- bin band sound
- bin bike — bicycle move
- lazy bus stop — car outer tire sit
- tire chair — car outer tire sit
- tire lounge — car outer tire sit
- tire swing — car outer tire play
- tire swing — car outer tire play
enclose, meet, play, shelter, sit, work, sound, move.
car outer tire, 80 liter bin, bicycle.
Jan Körbes, Mantas Lesauskas, Cascoland, Denis Oudendijk, Mathieu Schuster, Nora Jongen, Milgro.
Cascoland
2007 - 2010 · Cascoland · Cultural
Refunc at Cascoland South Africa Refunc joined Cascoland’s international team working townships from Cape Town’s New Crossroads through Johannesburg to Durban. Western luxury, transport, tools, budget, provided access local communities lacked. Yet hands and minds collaborated to demonstrate public space transformation using readily available materials. Through practice and experiment, the projects showed how discarded industrial materials could reclaim public territory. The work emphasized direct action over theory—transforming street corners and vacant lots with what townships already contained. Material wasn’t scarce; recognition of its potential was. Each intervention proved that taking over public space requires vision and available resources, though privilege determines who possesses the means to act first.