Public space is still public when there is no public.
Our mandate covers benches, bins, lamps, rails, signs, planters, shelters, kiosks, decorative clocks, and everything that looks like a bin but turns out to be science.
The Commission for Extraterrestrial Street Furniture asks the unnecessarily difficult questions about public space beyond weather.
Forty-seven live furniture trials, three public consultations, one unlicensed fountain and a shadow currently longer than the procurement process.
Our mandate covers benches, bins, lamps, rails, signs, planters, shelters, kiosks, decorative clocks, and everything that looks like a bin but turns out to be science.
Every misplaced receipt becomes a permanent satellite. The Commission therefore specifies civic litter infrastructure to a standard of one receipt per geologic era.
Observed, photographed, over-reviewed and entered into the Commission’s continuously expanding civic-behaviour ledger.
Aluminum, basalt dust, institutional tension. Acquired 2024.
View object dossier →Orientation changes monthly without moving. Purpose remains contested.
View object dossier →Contains one certified memory of a fern and drainage for theoretical rain.
View object dossier →Currently empty, or operating at extraordinary capacity.
View object dossier →Sixteen new civic forms approved for installation at locations where very little civic anything has yet occurred.
Submissions are open for the 2027 Commission strand: “Civic Comfort at Unhelpful Distances.” Concept notes must include a structural drawing, a shadow impact statement, and an apology to gravity.