installing picnurbia

I had fun making a little time-lapse video of the
installation process of PICNURBIA on August 9th, 2011
in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

PICNURBIA - installation day from krista jahnke on Vimeo.

From the Loose Affiliates website:

PICNURBIA. The Yellow Picnic Wave.

In the summer, Vancouverites leave their neighbourhoods and head to the beach, thereby inhabiting the edge of the city. PICNURBIA suggests an alternative to this exodus, creating an inland zone for people to gather and picnic in the heart of downtown.

At PICNURBIA, the summer act of picnicking is heightened by an über–picnic-blanket. This undulating landscape provides spaces for people to hang out and play in alternative formations, providing a new experience of urban picnicking.

PICNURBIA offers space for people to come together, relax and watch. Inserted into the urban downtown neighbourhood, a community where people already live, work and visit, the site is intended to become an easily inhabited summer zone, where people may gather to enjoy the long summer days. PICNURBIA is designed to offer an ‘on-the-block’ amenity where people can drop by on purpose or stumble upon more informally as they walk or bike home. This will establish PICNURBIA as a summer node, carried on mouth-to-mouth, “Let’s meet at PICNURBIA”

Picnurbia is realised in collaboration with Viva Vancouver and is supported by SYNLawn, suppliers of PICNURBIA's vibrant yellow turf.


Loose Affiliates | looseaffiliates.com
Viva Vancouver | vancouver.ca/​viva
SYNLawn | synlawn.com/​

music: This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) - The Talking Heads

filmed/edited by:krista jahnke

kristajahnke.com