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Street Pianos - Play Me, I'm Yours - The Plaza in London

By Luke Jerram - Why is it that when I go to the laundrette I see the same people each week and yet nobody talks to one another? Why don’t I know the names of the people who live opposite my house? Play Me, I’m Yours was designed to act as a catalyst for strangers who regularly occupy the same space, to talk and connect with one another. Listening to the radio programme made by NPR about this project it seems to have worked.

 

Disrupting people’s negotiation of their city, the pianos are also aimed to provoke people into engaging, activating and claiming ownership of their urban landscape.

 

Photo taken at The Plaza, Oxofrd Street, London.

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Uploaded on July 1, 2009
Taken on July 1, 2009