The Urban Homesteading Project (UHP) builds temporary living spaces in public spaces out of discarded, donated and exchanged materials, as a means to create positive social interactions within a community.

Neighbors, friends and passersby are encouraged spend time in each temporary homestead and partake in activities such as cooking, gardening, sleeping and watching movies. After a period of time, all items brought to the homestead are distributed back onto the street and left available to all for the taking. By making representative living situations and inviting community members to participate in these fictional spaces, we transform the apparent physical configuration of a space and its social and symbolic dimensions.

Through collectively observing the movement of the street, the manifestations of change in a neighborhood and the flow of people, we unfold the multiple layers of a place. Each homestead is an investigation of community, available resources and models of sociability in the contemporary city.

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SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS (in progress)

Some of Your Business is an interactive installation in public space that explores modes of behavior and sociability in corporate environments. read more

Summer Homestead (2008)

Summer Homestead is a transformative living structure designed to provide multi-sensory experiences through human interaction with natural and synthetic elements. read more

Sidewalk (2007)

The UHP created a temporary residence on the sidewalk in front of Union Docs for 24 hours starting at dawn on Saturday November 3rd, 2007. read more

Pre-fab rehab (2007)

The UHP created a spontaneous residence on the sidewalk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on September 8th, 2007

 

contact the UHP!!

urbanhomesteadingproject@gmail.com

click here to watch video of UHP's Sidewalk homestead.
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Coming soon - video from the opening of Summer Homestead.
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