The Fractured City

August 15 - 16 | 10am-7pm

The Fractured City is an interactive public art experience that invites festival-goers to explore how cities evolve through design choices, social dynamics, environmental pressures, and community influence. Featuring a series of large-scale, hands-on fabric installations, visitors can rotate, swap, clip, and rearrange painted textile elements to transform evolving cityscapes throughout the day.

One installation reveals contrasting visions of a city in disarray and harmony through rotating fabric panels, while another allows participants to build entirely new neighborhoods by repositioning painted fabric strips along tensioned chains. The Fractured City transforms festival-goers from observers into active participants in reimagining the future of the urban environment.

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123 West Design Collective

Kyle Zimmerman, Roxanne Greeson, Mary B. Truly, Baillieu Lewis