A weekly, monthly or yearly procession. The procession could be used for the delivery of food to the local food pantry.

In Asia Elephants have been used for labor and to maintain order. In the western world their fate is mostly reduced to the circus or the zoo. Could both (Larimer and the elephants) profit through a partnership either through an elephant sanctuary, a yearly elephant procession through Larimer Ave or as alternative demolition equipment when […]

Reading through the list of people and places in Larimer it becomes clear that there are many different interests within this one community. One way to address all of these is to hold individual oil paint sessions where a professional oil painter is hired to paint a demonstration. The demonstration is held by those who […]

“As Pittsburgh attacked its smoke problem, the view looked clearer and clearer, and the city looked worse and worse to the spectator.” (from: The Spectator and the Topographical City by Martin Aurand) If blight is a problem in Larimer, black smoke could be its traditionally approved cover up. The post-industrial production of black smoke should […]

Since its invention there has been a competition between cities and countries about where the tallest skyscraper stands. Instead of “how many stories high” cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit or Cleveland could now compete for “how many homes lost” while still relying on the powerful symbolic meaning of the skyscraper. The idea: A Skyscraper for abandoned […]

Since we are making our working process public, the back and forth between ideas and revelations might seem confusing for an “outsider”, but it demonstrates our dialog with the site, the conditions and our ideas. (- And as stated earlier, this process usually happens in the privacy of our studio, now our studio practice is […]

After thinking about the phone conversation and the process in developing a project we felt that we might have made some incomplete statements in an earlier email where we said: – We might start by giving an idea, but only continue, if this idea grows through the input of others. Otherwise it’s the wrong idea […]

We sent the following email to Renee, Lea and Lena. Hello Renee, Lea and Lena, We have been thinking about strategies on how to proceed in developing a project for you and we wanted to start where we had left off at our last meeting. In the second part of the email, we paraphrase some […]