OhGizmo just featured this modified park and bus stop bench from designer Martin Nicolausson. Apparently, the designer is on a mission to encourage strangers to communicate in public spaces, and he figured that by turning seats into seesaws, anyone who wanted to sit comfortably would need to talk a stranger into balancing them out! It’s a pretty fun idea, though I can’t imagine it’s coming to my neighborhood anytime soon. Link via the always entertaining OhGizmo.
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Being a man of large “stature” I wouldn’t be talking to strangers so much as launching them . . . .
posted by Nathan on 10-3-2008 at 11:25 am
heh… I’m all for that as well!
posted by Mangesh Hattikudur on 10-3-2008 at 11:29 am
that’s an interesting idea… but i’m curious as to how many people would rather stand than talk to a stranger.
posted by kelly on 10-3-2008 at 1:45 pm
So if you’re handicapped or elderly and on your own you’re out of luck until some friendly stranger happens along who also needs to sit down? And what about trust issues? Do you really expect that no one will jump up from his end so he can watch you fall and have a good laugh? Just a law suit waiting to happen.
posted by Pam on 10-3-2008 at 6:40 pm
well, i think that’s a wonderful idea. :)
except for that elderly comment.
posted by Casey on 10-3-2008 at 8:21 pm
Nathan, it’s about time you learned about levers.
Or you can just trust me and sit towards the middle.
posted by Wilson on 10-3-2008 at 9:02 pm
If I wanted to sit on the bench in the picture, I would tilt that garbage can on it’s side, put it under one end of the bench, and sit on that end. – Then Nathan would come along, sit on the other end, and launch me into orbit. (haha)
posted by Tdave on 10-4-2008 at 1:15 am