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Friday Fun: A Colorful Reconstruction

Posted by Toni | Filed under Friday Fun

Something as mischievous as it is functional and brilliant is happening, brick by brick, in several countries around the world, thanks to German artist Jan Vormann. WebUrbanist.com featured a brief article about Vormann’s project, Dispatchwork, which seeks to repair parts of damaged historic buildings using Lego bricks. Vormann says he wants to “repair” every broken wall worldwide – quite an ambition:

Why not? I think it is a fun approach towards conceiving the decay that time brings along. It leaves a positive imprint in people’s mind. As long as kids play, adults will build walls. And those walls break. Let’s patch them up with colorful plastic pieces. Life is serious, so that makes playing sometimes even more important.

The Dispatchwork site includes a map marking sites around the world featuring Dispatchwork repairs (click the links beside the map for more images and detail about each project). I really got a kick out of photos showing people doing a double-take upon seeing tiny plastic bricks inserted into old walls in disrepair. Sure, some preservationists might be pulling their hair out over this idea. But just as having or spending time with kids often reconnects us with our childlike creative spirit and sense of unbridled fun, this project illustrates that thinking like a kid sometimes leads to amazing acts of kindness and creativity.

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One Response to “Friday Fun: A Colorful Reconstruction”

1. Marc Says:
   February 15th, 2010 at 9:59 pm

   Wow, those pictures were great! My kids play with Lego toys all day long, I can’t wait to show them this pictures tomorrow! What a creative idea, and it looks like it adds a lot of fun to some of the buildings. The level of detail matching some of the holes was extraordinary too! Thanks for putting up the post!

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