This project reimagines the potential for hoardings and their deployment in building construction. The pictorial content painted onto the hoardings stages moments in the story of a new urban farm community which moves into the largely-vacant Brush Park district of Detroit. The hoardings of the site become a framework for inhabitable spaces which inevitably spill out into the backlands of the site.
The overarching theme of the project is to advocate the need for sustainable futures. The murals of the site not only depict communal activities of the urban farm, but also the wider environmental and ecological context of cities, such as Detroit. In this mural, the wider environmental impacts of the motor car are measured against the production output of vehicle manufacturers that exist / have existed in Detroit.
Street-side hoarding visualises the wider environmental impacts of the motor car measured against the production output of vehicle manufacturers that exist / have existed in Detroit.
