ABSTRACT
In the complex density of cities innovative artists and designers must explore alternative strategies for finding spaces for urban interventions. One such strategy concerns itself with introducing or transporting urban elements (for example unexpected densities or program functions) into rural or suburban sites. Another strategy exploits the body as a transportable device relying on its own means of locomotion to enter wilfully into a host site. Installation artists and designers may also take advantage of the transitional phases of an urban site in city centers for decades. City development projects and construction schedules do not typically offer public use of a site between the end of its prior use and the substantial completion of the latest refurbishment/new construction, safety issues being a major concern for not allowing the public to enter an “unfinished” site. However, there have been some successful temporary events and projects that have take place during what is typically considered this unoccupiable period in the site’s history.
