Andrew Shoben on public artworks that increase Gross Domestic Happiness

Urban & Landscape Design/2012/35 min/Reel № 12.001

ByAndrew Shoben

Andrew Shoben on public artworks that increase Gross Domestic Happiness

I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Andrew Shoben takes urban & landscape design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in France in 2012, the conversation is grounded in Andrew's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Andrew Shoben creates public artworks that encourage involvement from the public and ensure a lot of enjoyment.

Andrew Shoben

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Andrew Shoben

Paris/France

Andrew Shoben creates art in pubic spaces, bringing art and a form of creative expression to urban areas where is usually nothing of the sort.