Parking day, an event which had its epicenter in San Francisco, took place on September 19, 2008. Here artists and people from all over the world occupied and transformed a parking space or a momentarily free parking lot into a small public park with plenty of grass, small trees and benches in order to give pedestrians and cyclists a space to relax in. The parking spaces were paid for, and the tickets were shown to law officials as evidence upon request. Once they expired, the activists quickly disassembled the parking spaces and transported the various parts of the “mobile flower beds” using carts pulled by bicycles toward other free parking spaces.The activity of Park(ing) was invented in 2005 by REBAR, a group of creative individuals, designers and activists who operate in San Francisco and still today have the rights to the creative license.
This is a gesture of protest towards the urban mobility of large cities in which motorized means reign. It compels the officials who sacrifice green spaces and public spaces for parking lots and highways to change the planning of the city.
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