Art installations popped up in Perth Road parking spaces in Dundee as part of a student-led global takeover.
Students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) transformed six spaces much to the bewilderment of motorists.
This is third successive year Dundee has taken part in world-wide PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform public spaces.
Around 80 students studying interior environmental design worked to create six environments outside DJCAD’s Crawford Building and adjacent to Airlie Place, further along the Perth Road.
It contributed to a global debate about cities by raising public awareness of the loss of urban green space and how we can temporarily reinvent the city in new and novel ways.
DJCAD’s interior and environmental design programme director, Andy Milligan, said: “PARK[ing] Day is part of a wider international folio of modules and projects which we have been pioneering for some years now.
“Our students are putting Dundee on the global stage alongside 900-plus similar PARK(ing) Day projects across the globe, each synching on the same day.”
The open-source event which was invented by REBAR in San Francisco, USA, in 2005 attracts companies, institutions and creative citizens from around the world to create new social experiences in the city.
Andy added: “It provides our students with a unique global challenge set in a local context. We’ve been delivering PARK[ing] Day in Dundee for the last three years now and asking interior student teams to improvise by designing temporary urban interventions in public car parking spaces along Perth Road.
“Design activism is something we have been developing in interiors for some time. Indeed, ‘interiors’ is something of a misnomer that needs to be challenged by doing external projects, but this offers dynamic, challenging learning experiences for our students’ that reflects the collaborative nature of industry.
“It’s a reminder of the very different forms of spatial practice transforming the sector internationally.”