#site-specific-installations

#site-specific-installations

This month, urban centers around the world are hosting a massive public art project helmed by Nōvo Collective. uncommissioned has tapped 54 artists for a global initiative that sees the city as a playground, inviting participants "to slip playful, overlooked, or quietly defiant gestures into the cracks of everyday life." In Stellenbosch, South Africa, Strijdom van der Merwe installed sun-activated text works displaying heady phrases like "the visible is a shadow cast by the invisible."

designboom visits Japan's inaugural Hiroshima International Architecture Festival 2025, which runs from October 4 to November 30 across the twin cities of Fukuyama and Onomichi. Conceived as a triennial event by the Kambara-Tsuneishi Cultural Foundation, the festival invites 23 architects and artists from Japan and abroad to explore the future of cities and the role of architecture in revitalizing local communities through a series of exhibitions, site-specific installations, and talks.

Hayes uses color, translucency, and composition to radically reshape the way viewers experience architecture and nature through large-scale, site-specific installations.