Dumpsters can be a real eyesore, which is why one New York City art group has decided to transform these giant bins into an inflatable community space where people can hang out.



The project called “Inflato Dumpster” comes from The Department of Urban Betterment, in which these dumpsters will be transformed into a pop-up learning center. In 2012, the group made headlines after coming up with a pop-up phone booth library project.



The group plans to deploy the temporary installation on a New York City street, which involves covering it with an expansive inflatable roof:
As public space in New York becomes increasingly privatized and commodified, The Inflato Dumpster seeks to counter that tendency by serving as an open, engaging street-level structure that acts as a mobile learning laboratory. For five days this fall, the temporary, dome-like structure will confront the tendency of city space to limit public exchange by serving as a large scale urban intervention in which workshops to create and explore the possibilities for smaller, targeted urban interventions will be produced and deployed from within.
For more on this project, check out the official Kickstarter page.