Linden Tree Presentation: March 10th (at) 7:00pm

Rebar will introduce their work and share details from various projects currently on the drawing boards, including recent transformations of pavement into parks, modular sidewalks and mapping the tacoshed.

"In November 2005, a group of landscape architects, artists, and others calling themselves REBAR “rented” a metered parking space in downtown San Francisco and transformed it into a tiny public park, complete with grass, a bench for seating, and a tree for shade. The park lasted only for a matter of hours, and was met with a mixture of “surprise, approval, joy, and indignation,” but, surprisingly, no one was arrested or fined. In the two years since this intial act of guerilla urbanism, the idea has exploded into something of an international phenomenon." --On Site Issue 19: Streets, Spring/Summer 2008.

Based in San Francisco, Rebar is an interdisciplinary studio operating at the intersection of art, design and activism. Rebar’s work encompasses visual and conceptual public art, landscape design, urban intervention, temporary performance installation, digital media and print design.

Rebar remixes the ordinary, repurposes the ubiquitous and restructures the fabric of the urban environment by exposing hidden assumptions and shared meanings embedded in the everyday experience of the built world. Perhaps best known as the originators of “PARK(ing) Day” – an annual global event where artists and citizens transform metered parking spaces into temporary parks – Rebar has created numerous innovative artworks and conceptual projects around the globe.

Rebar has exhibited its work and lectured worldwide, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, ISEA, 2009 Dublin, ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Parsons School of Design, U.C. Berkeley, the Univ. of Michigan, the Univ. of Mass. at Amherst and many others.

Contact Info: 
REBAR
3330 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94410
Phone +1 510 301 5698
www.rebargroup.org