Mind Igloo is a Temporary Shelter Made of Recycled Hot Air Balloons

<a href="http://dusdus.nl/projects.php?categorieid=curating">DUS Architects</a> have transformed two disused hot air balloons into Mind Igloo—a temporary shelter and projection screen in the Netherlands. The idea—commissioned by <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/244670/en/mind-igloo">Mediamatic</a> as part of the fourth New Order festival—was to explore the creation of new urban spaces through collective thinking. As such, visitors to the installation are asked to remove their shoes, hand over their <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/smartphone/">smartphones</a> and relax in the second, padded bubble, where a selection of images taken from their phones are randomly projected on the interior walls of the balloon.

This is a temporary art/architecture installation in the Netherlands

Two disused hot air balloons are blown up into an igloo space

Inside, participants are asked to hand over their smartphones

Once they are in the second bubble, random images are taken from the phones and projected on the interior walls

DUS likens this to a lie-in instead of a drive-in!

The project is designed to get us thinking about the importance of creating urban spaces through collective thought!