Candy Chang is a young street-artist and designer who seeks to make cities more comfortable and contemplative. One of his ideas, titled Before I die, is an interactive public art project that invites people to share their hopes and dreams in a public space ...
Be a part of the Before I Die book, published by St Martin's Press in 2013!
Candy Chang.
Candy Chang is an artist, designer, and urban planner who explores making cities more comfortable and contemplative places. She believes in the potential of introspection and collective wisdom in public space to improve our communities and our personal well-being. She is a TED Senior Fellow, an Urban Innovation Fellow, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and was named a “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero by Oprah Magazine. By combining street art with urban planning, social activism, and philosophy, she has been recognized as a leader in developing new strategies for the design of our cities.
This participatory public art project is currently expanding to cities around the world, including Amsterdam, Portsmouth, Querétaro, Almaty, San Diego, Lisbon, Brooklyn, London, and beyond - see other walls on the project site!
