With the intention of addressing the question of, ‘How users of public space are engaging with their environment’, the environmental group Public Works are making and giving away free bags to the traders and locals of Petticoat Lane in London. Using bits and pieces of donated fabric that they have collected, the two artists make their bags while sewing outdoors, chatting and engaging with the local visitors. The aim of the project is to encourage fun and innovative ways of making people interact with the public space around them.
Initially shy to the idea, the locals of Petticoat Lane are now starting to take part – some are offering fabric scraps and unwanted textiles for the group’s material source, and others are now requesting specific styles and colours for their bags. Creatively constructed by an unlikely mish-mash of materials, (cloth, plastic, clothes and jewelry) the group’s ‘1000 free bags, here + now’ campaign will be producing these uniquely recycled bags for until Sunday 3rd May.
- Contributed by Ellie Price
[via Treehugger and Whitechapel Gallery]
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