Imagine you are walking on the streets and you see instead of posters hanging on electricity boxes, books hanging there. That’s what we did yesterday in the city of Arnhem. We got plastic bags that are being used to put custom documents in and that you put on packages that you want to send. We had too many of them and then I put a book in it and it fitted perfectly and made a joke that we can put up books in public space to spread them. Before I knew it I walked outside to test if the plastic bag would hold on an electricity box and it did. One hour later on different crazy places books where hanging for people to take home.
A day later still several books are hanging, maybe people don’t dare to take them home. Photos of it I will put later online, but I can say to you that it looks funny.
If you also want to do such action you can go to the post office (at least in the Netherlands) and say that you want to send packages abroad and need those plastic bags. They give you as many as you want for free and on the back of the bag you just have to remove the paper and then it will stick on many surfaces without damaging it.
It’s an easy action but fun to do and especially watching how other people react!
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