This past weekend Governors Island was host to FIGMENT, an interactive cultural gathering with something for everyone. Over 10,000 people streamed onto the island between Friday and Sunday, to paint faces, play mini-golf, dance, make and enjoy art, and revel in the great outdoors. Read more…

Collaborators test out their inflatable structure before installing it inside the gallery.

Just one month after receiving the top prize in Metropolis’s 2008 Next Generation ® Design Competition, Eric Olsen was on the scene again, this time in downtown San Jose, California. Collaborating with Ga-Ga / Jordan Geiger, Thomas Stephen Bates, and Stijn Schiffeleers, Olsen helped create an inflatable structure that took over a vacant retail space and challenged visitor’s relationships with time and place in cities. Read more…