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  • Water Totems -
    Air-inflate tubes printed with water imagery were floated as vertical columns in the Sloterplas lake in Amsterdam.
  • Cushion -
    An over-sized inflatable cushion was put into urban locations so that passers by could play with it.
  • Dragon - video
    An air-inflated dragon was comissioned for William Klein's film Mr. Freedom. This creature was recycled in a number of urban events where people simply carried it through the streets.
  • Brickhill -
    An air-inflated cone-shaped structure printed with the image of bricks, which people could jump onto.
  • Pneu-Written -
    Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.
  • Waterwalk -
    The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this lightweight structure was inflated with air, one or more...
  • Sandquake -
    Long lengths of polythene tubing were buried in the sand at a beach in the Camargue in France. This tubing was then slowly inflated so that it gradually rose up and erupted out of the sand.
  • Smokescreen -
    In Smokescreen a row of smoke canisters along the whole front side of the Swansea University created a thick smoke-screen behind which the building completely disappeared for a while. Portions of this smoke-screen were white, yellow and black.
  • Glowflow -
    GlowflowArtist: Myron KruegerComment:
  • Known for her theories on playculture, activist design, and critical play, Mary Flanagan has achieved international acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary work, her commitment to both theory and practice, and her ongoing pioneering contributions to...