DailyGood

For the last 27 years, DailyGood newsletters have offered a daily email that inspires you to respond to life with creativity and kindness. To join a community of 148,429 subscribers, subscribe here.

Feb 26, 2007

"Each moment of the everyday, every action of living, poses the question: how it might be lived differently, more truthfully and respectfully." -- Markuz Wernli Saito

Outside-the-Box Service

For eight weeks straight, every day of the week, Swiss-born designer and conceptual artist Markuz Wernli Saito carried out 'At-Your-Service', a relational art experiment on the streets of Kyoto: for an hour, he offered citizens a chance to participate in outside-the-box interventions in urban areas. Every Tuesday, for example, was "I Love Trash" day, when people left thank-you notes on trash bags, appreciating the work of garbage collectors. Mondays were mobile tea ceremony days, offering traditional Japanese hospitality -- and a break in the day -- in unexpected settings. His purpose? To ignite our streamlined, hyper-functional lives with meaningful everyday encounters and fresh discoveries of beauty. The project's website lists the week's other activities.