TRASH: anycoloryoulike is a remarkable art intervention for urban beautification and environmental awareness.

The project is developed by the New York based artist Adrian Kondratowicz who created colorful trash-bags and distributed them to members of his local community.

By using the new bags instead of the traditional ones, the standard piles of trash on the streets were transformed into vivid sculptures of color.

The project has been a massive success and the community around it seems to be growing and spreading to other cities.

And naturally, the bags are 100% biodegradable.

• www.anycoloryoulike.biz

Oeps Crew are two anonymous girls (supposedly) from Copenhagen who create small graffiti-inspired motifs using plastic beads

Their work can be found in galleries as well as urban spaces around the world. However, their unique urban tags are never up for long as they are quickly removed - or 'stolen' - by fans.

Check the Oeps Crew website for documentation as well as gallery updates.

• www.oeps.dk

The Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal is currently running the excellent looking exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City.

The exhibition documents and presents 99 actions - or 'urban interventions' - that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world.

Common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition.

Two of my favorite actions included in the exhibition are (P)LOT by Michael Rakowitz and Football Field by Maider López (see images). The exhibition also includes the brilliant Camera Surveillance Players and the excellent PARK(ing) project by Rebar.

If you can't make it to Montreal, you can view the 99 actions on the exhibition website. The site also contains a user-generated section which makes it possible for anyone to submit their own actions. The most popular ones will be featured in the physical exhibition later on.

• www.cca-actions.org

Moving Forest is a park on wheels. The park is made of trees in shopping carts that allow the public to rearrange their own little park.

The forest is created by Dutch architect firm NL architects in response to the lack of green nature in contemporary urban environments - which in the case of the Netherlands, more or less amounts to whole country.

Moving Forest was recently installed at the Experimenta Design event in Amsterdam.

• More images of the intruiging project is available here.

'Haircuts by Children' is relational performance orchestrated by Toronto based art-collective Mammalian.

In collaboration with communities around the world, Mammalian work with groups of local kids to give them the skills and confidence to give public haircuts.

After a ten-day period of workshops in art, politics and hairstyling, they set up shop in a salon for day of haircuts - free of charge for adults.

Related: A fashion brand created by youngsters.

• www.mammalian.ca + YouTube documentation

"I left this here for you to read" is a magazine-project by the artist Tim Devin.

About once a month, the magazine is printed in just 50 copies that are left for random people to find at public places, such as park benches, on buses, in airports etc. The magazine is distributed on Boston, New York and L.A.

Issues are not reprinted and cannot be ordered. The only way to have a copy mailed to you is to help edit, write, design, or distribute it. According to Tim, he prints everything he receives.

Related: Lost sculptures

• i left this here for you to read

A bit of self promotion: A new souvenir concept that I have developed for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark just launched. Here follows a description:
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Social Souvenir is an installation and souvenir concept that creates links and social experiences between museum visitors.

The concept is based on 300 T-shirts that are exhibited and put on sale at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. Each T-shirt is imprinted with a text fragment inspired by 15 renowned artists represented in the museum's collection, such as Yoko Ono, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and Per Højholt.

Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they share a bit of personal information about themselves, or more precisely: their name and address. When paying for the T-shirt at the museum-shop, the information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after leaving the museum.

During the course of the exhibition, the 300 T-shirts will gradually disappear from the physical museum space only to re-appear on the web. Consequently, by buying a T-shirt visitors do not simply get a personal piece of the installation - they also help contribute to its collective development and distribution.

• www.socialsouvenir.net

This week, more than 100 international + local artist will transform New York City into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment.

In other words, it's time for the annual Conflux Festival, a four day event devoted to contemporary psychogeography (the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice).

The theme will be investigated through an impressive array of lectures, guided tours, performances and projects. Following this post is a shortcut to some of the great-looking projects listed on the Conflux website.

Image: Manhattan's Urban Fabric. A collective mind-mapping and knitting project by Liz Kueneke.

• confluxfestival.org

Conflux:2008 #1

Sit Projects by Paola Mojica and Daniel Clapp is a series of service-oriented installations inspired by the pressing need for seats at bus and subway stops in New York.

The installations are based on disposed chairs that are recycled and placed at selected bus and subway stops.

By adding something practical and at the same time unique to the otherwise generic world of public transportation systems, the idea is not just to meet commuter's practical needs but also to create a situation for surprise and social interaction between commuters.

• Sit Projects