This spectacular urban art project sits at the intersection of guerrilla installation art, recycling, upcycling and freeganism, from interactively mapping empty dumpster locations and full dumpster contents to providing tools for converting materials within them and the skips themselves into new objects and useful spaces. One of the easiest and yet most impressive of these so-called skip conversions is quite simple yet equally compelling: a swimming pool created simply by lining the interior of a dumpster, adding a latter and filling the result with water. A few pieces of bent plywood and some tape and one of these dumpsters can also be turned into a miniature skate ramp complete with curved slopes and side rails.
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