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Project Heidelberg (18 photos)
For those who believe that the place and the reason for fun is everywhere and in everything, even in the Apocalypse, as a proof of concept, there is a project of Heidelberg (Heidelberg Project), which for many years living and developing in the area of Black Bottom (Black Bottom), one of the most famous and abandoned on the outskirts of Detroit.
Project Heidelberg (Heidelberg Project) is not just a proposal to reuse objects.
What attracts us in the process of adapting and reusing things? The fact that even when it seriously - it's a game. The game, which shows how much can be endless human resources, as they can adapt to the situation and change its context, as you can create great of incredible materials left over from the destruction and disasters.
It is hard to imagine a more fertile ground for such creativity, rather than abandoned bandit suburbs of Detroit.
If you want to see the future, climate change, and after the fall of the industrial nations, the Detroit is definitely the place to see it - the World of Tomorrow.
Initially, the project Heidelberg (Heidelberg Project) was a political protest. It is named after the street, Heidelberg, where his childhood Tyree Gutona (Tyree Guyton), the founder of all this movement, destroyed riot of 1967. When he returned home after the army, the feeling was that "there is a huge bomb exploded".
First, a few houses down the street Heidelberg (Heidelberg Street) was decorated with bright colored circles that connect to different elements placed on the facade. It's completely transformed the city: the streets through which people were afraid to go even in the daytime, now filled with guests who gladly welcomed the owners of buildings is much more cheerful.
Today fun place attracts about 250,000 visitors a year and is probably the main tourist attraction in Detroit.
Project Heidelberg (Heidelberg Project) is not just a proposal to reuse objects.
What attracts us in the process of adapting and reusing things? The fact that even when it seriously - it's a game. The game, which shows how much can be endless human resources, as they can adapt to the situation and change its context, as you can create great of incredible materials left over from the destruction and disasters.
It is hard to imagine a more fertile ground for such creativity, rather than abandoned bandit suburbs of Detroit.
If you want to see the future, climate change, and after the fall of the industrial nations, the Detroit is definitely the place to see it - the World of Tomorrow.
Initially, the project Heidelberg (Heidelberg Project) was a political protest. It is named after the street, Heidelberg, where his childhood Tyree Gutona (Tyree Guyton), the founder of all this movement, destroyed riot of 1967. When he returned home after the army, the feeling was that "there is a huge bomb exploded".
First, a few houses down the street Heidelberg (Heidelberg Street) was decorated with bright colored circles that connect to different elements placed on the facade. It's completely transformed the city: the streets through which people were afraid to go even in the daytime, now filled with guests who gladly welcomed the owners of buildings is much more cheerful.
Today fun place attracts about 250,000 visitors a year and is probably the main tourist attraction in Detroit.
