Double Happiness - billboards as swings, by Mésarchitecture, Hong Kong

I created The Urban Guide for Alternate Use as an online guide to urban design hacks and examples of individual design resourcefulness in the city. It is both a catalogue and catalyst for creative reuse of urban objects and areas – ways in which people are treating the city not as the end of a creative process, but the beginning of their own.

Junior Pro-ball by Veronika Tzekova, Sofia, Bulgaria

In the Urban Guide for Alternate Use, the city is source material, and the urban infrastructure a maleable environment. The Guide was launched in October 2010 as part of the Exchange Radical Moments festival and is sponsored by the EU Education and Culture Programme.

New Prospects by Wouter Sibum, Hoorn, Netherlands: disused stairs created as bench

uFOOGO by Hans Lerperger, Linz, Austria

You can find many more examples in The Urban Guide for Alternate Use at www.altuseguide.com