Moe+ Art Architecture, Green Street Public Art Project, details, Lagos Biennial 2019.
Founded Lagos, Nigeria (2014), based in Lagos, Nigeria
Green Street Public Art Project 2019
project presentation, steel, strings, printed photographs
Courtesy of the artists
Artists’ statement
Towards the end of 2018, our office MOE+Art Architecture took it upon ourselves to conduct an urban experiment. Targeting our little corner on Raymond Njoku, we carried out simple and artful interventions to test how design can instigate behavioral change within the community. Over the course of four months, we held discussions between artists of varying mediums where we generated ideas on how to restore our local area and prevent anti-social behavior such as public urination and loitering. Our focus was on the regeneration of the trilateral close between Raymond Njoku street and Taofik Lawal street in South-West Ikoyi, Lagos; our goal being to create a Clean Green Sustainable Streetscape that would allow for a more interactive and playful street experience, where previously unused spaces were converted into usable public areas. To develop the project as part of a community project, we decided to invite 2 other artists to come up with creative, practical and low-cost methods of creating public interventions at Raymond Njoku, Ikoyi. The result was a communal effort to re-design learned habits, and establish new patterns for interacting.
