Pulling the strings to open or close a wooden shade, every pedestrian walking on Mauritsstraat in Rotterdam’s city center can now easily take control of the street light in front of  the Piet Zwart Institute building. Özalp Eröz (TK), first-year Master student in Networked Media with a background in illustration and street art, designed a simple but effective participatory medium and hacker intervention into the urban space. His construction has already survived one week out in the open, but we advise Rotterdam residents and visitors to check it out quickly before the police or someone else might take it off.

More information and images can be found on Özalp’s Wiki pages. The Street light project was his trimester work for Rui Guerra’s  September-December 2009 Thematic Project Open Events.