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Design and construction by Sistema LUPO

Saturday, February 22, 2020
10am-2pm
Helena Gutteridge Plaza, City Hall
(located on the north side of City Hall – W 11th Ave and Yukon Street)

Sistema LUPO, a Spanish collective specializing in childhood and architecture games, are hosting this rain-friendly event in public space. Come play in the rain and participate in a fun day launching our Art Easel to create urban art for all ages! Children of all ages and familes are most welcome! Hot drinks and snacks provided!

Project Details

The rainy days become grey days. The presence of clouds and water conditions the behavior of people and societies, and this, in cities like Vancouver, with 165 rainy days a year, becomes really important. This type of climate reproduces the same pattern in a universal way: people tend to the individualism and comfort of their houses, leaving aside our social component.

This project proposes to use rainwater as a playing field. It will be through the implementation of the work of the artist Tatiana Medal who investigates the color and watercolor, its light effects, introducing the color in the cells of polycarbonate.

The proposal, Human Printer- Art Easel, aims to activate the public space through game devices, filling the public spaces of Vancouver with color. Through these artistic easels, the aim is to promote rain-friendly culture and collaborative work. The operation and its assembly is very simple: during a rainy day these folding easels made with red cedar wood, cellular polycarbonate plates and wheels are taken to the street. At the top is an impermeable textile tank where natural solid pigments of color are introduced, a different pigment on each easel among Cian, Magenta, Yellow and Black. This tank collects rainwater, which is dyed by the pigments and passes to the cells of the polycarbonate, which has a cap/injector at its bottom that allows to open and manage the watercolor according to the technique to be used: Lines resulting from the dragging of the easel, recovery of the material in buckets for later use with brooms, brushes or directly with the body/hands… creating any kind of image on the ground, large scale game boards, messages, etc

The Human Printer-Art Easel allows people to interact and paint over Vancouver’s public space, turning the city into a great artistic canvas. With the bottom caps of the polycarbonate you can regulate the amount and intensity of "ink" you want to use and thanks to the wheels you can move easily throughout the space.

The Easel’s triangular shape, the fact that it can be folded, its wheels and the use (rechargeable) of clean natural pigments, will allow easy transport and storage of the easels. People of all ages can paint Vancouver with color in the rain - creating a spirit of community and a social fabric in which people collaborate together to fill the city with life.