Zebra
The portable zebra crossing helps pedestrians safely cross the road anywhere they want and make drivers reflect on how the city is structured while they wait.
The zebra crossing is one of the rare universal signs to make motor vehicles stop. Their characteristic of not-being-there-when-you need-one is probably as generally known. The portable zebra-crossing provides a solution to this acute need, and by shuffling the hierarchy of car over pedestrian raises issues of use of public space.
The portable zebra crossing consist of a slab of black plastic measuring (2 by 10 metres) with white rectangles painted upon them. It is not designed as a permanent solution to the absence of a safe way to cross the street, but rather as a way to brace the request for a more permanent solution.
The portable zebra crossings have successfully supported the demands from schools and youth clubs in Brussels, and are still being used to make a case for safer roads.
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Ongoing projects:
L-Atlas
Precare
Generalized Empowerment
Krax
Micronomics
Cartografie
Bouillot
Publications:
Bunker Souple Repertorium 1998 & 2000: available at Citymine(d) offices.
Generalized Empowerment. Uneven Development and Urban Interventions, 2006. Download here.
MapRAC. Plannen voor het RijksAdministratief Centrum. La Cité Administrative de l'Etat en cartes & en question, 2004: available at Citymine(d) offices.
Micronomics scanning: DVD online soon.
Networkbook for Urban P/Arts. 42 initiatives capturing London's Public Space, 2004: available at Citymin(e)d offices.
Towards. Cartes Subjectives d'interventions Urbaines à Bruxelles // Subjectieve Kaarten van Stedelijke Internventies in Brussel: available at Citymine(d) offices.