first intervention - nature in a cup

in the night between wednesday 21st and thursday 22nd, the first intervention took place at webgasse.

with the first step of introducing the project to the public in an indirect way of communication, we aimed to heighten people's awareness of their environment by planting "nature in a cup" around the area. for this we collected 21 plastic coffee cups, filled them with soil and plants from the wienerwald and stuck them in obvious and less obvious places. each cup is numbered and forms a circle starting from where mariahilferstrasse crosses webgasse, down webgasse, along gumpendorferstrasse and back up stumpergasse to mariahilferstrasse where we started.

around 30 to 40 people have crossed our ways while placing the cups around the area, also three police cars. noone stopped to ask what we were doing. only a man on whose doorstep we placed a shivering plant came out around 1:30 in the morning, asking after a couple of minutes of observation what we were doing, finally admitting he feared we were attempting to break into his shop. anyway it's not really his shop - he has to ask the actual owner, his collaborate who is said to have studied product design at the angewandte - for permission for placing the coffee cup with the plant in his shop window.