Inga Anger T

Title: Interventions in Downtown Holyoke

Medium: Water, sand, rubber duckies, balls, towels

Location: Holyoke, MA, (2007)

Holyoke has approximately 11 miles of waterfront. Nobody seems to understand the urban quality that water represents. I want to put the canals back on the agenda and motivate the inhabitants of Holyoke to reclaim these neglected urban spaces - playfully.

First stage: releasing rubber duckies on the canals puts the canals back on people's radars.

Second stage: changing surfaces along the canals lets people rediscover and reclaim the waterfronts. They close a spatial gap and re-centralize Holyoke 's urban identity.

Third stage: re-kindled taste for the waterfronts initiates its long-term use.

Inga Anger was born December 26, 1982 in Muenster , Germany . She moved to Berlin in 2003 to enroll in the Architecture program at the Berlin Institute of Technology, where she is planning to graduate in 2009. Since fall 2007 she has been on exchange, studying art and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Interestingly, her work in Berlin and Amherst has focused on the interfaces between the two disciplines.

Most of her practical work experience has been focused in architectural firms, but she has also worked in other fields, such as graphic design and publishing.

Inga Anger