Artist Jan Vormann has been travelling the world using Lego to repair city walls and masonry instead of traditional bricks and mortar and is now calling on the public to get involved.
Vormann, a sculptor from Berlin, has visited nearly 40 cities across Europe, Central America, Asia, and the US. Crumbling walls and buildings are restored with the famous multi-colored plastic toy blocks as part of a project called Dispatchwork.
He sees the project as a voluntary design challenge and a way for people to take back public spaces, making their mark in a playful way.
Many have taken it upon themselves as artists and children-at-heart to contribute to Dispatchwork, aligning with the playful and lofty mission of the work.
Vormann says: “Dispatchwork aims at childhood-memories in abstract shapes and vivid colors, towards a global collaboration of persons unknown to each other. This project is made for all those who identify as one of the others and embrace transitoriness.
“Persons who like to share their time playfully and don’t mind when the unglued structures slowly ‘dissolve’ (friendly to our environment) back into kids toyboxes.”
