Free Furniture Factory
Place // Time
Festival de Wereld van Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL // September 2010
Bureau Detours were invited to do a project in public space by the urban street Festival de Wereld van Witte de With in Rotterdam. They shipped their relocatable workshop U.S.E. from Aarhus, DK to Rotterdam, NL and in only two days, they unfolded the U.S.E. station, and built and started a workshop with the purpose of producing free furniture for the urban environment of Rotterdam.
People passing by could carry the furniture off to a new spot in the city, where it would make sense to U.S.E. it. In this way the U.S.E. station provided the city with new urban furniture, on the terms of the people of Rotterdam themselves.
