Keith B

By keibr

The most beautiful rubbish containers in Sweden?

In Härnösand, as in many other towns, rubbish containers pop up here and there as various jobs and projects are carried out. Sometimes they are there for a day or two, and sometimes they seem to have become a permanent feature. What most of them of them have in common is that they are rusty, and usually all the same colour.
Many years ago Ann Hult, a local artist, suggested it needn't be like this and a new project came into being. Different groups of young people designed and then painted their "own" container. The job was done well and for many years these colourful, more interesting containers were seen on the streets.
Time took its toll and eventually it was time for a new project. I don't know the details but today the new containers went on view in the town square.
A simple idea, making public spaces more beautiful and giving quite few young people a sense that they created part of that public space.

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