‘happy medium’ was a collaborative project between a-RT, DCOOP and RGB Architecture Studio as a collateral project for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. It proposes an intersection between public space, discarded or reusable objects & the events of the biennale. By assembling and re-programming discarded and re-usable objects and assigning them new programmatic functions, the project hopes to foster an experimental engagement between spectators, visitors & locals, exploring how communities interact with their existing context and environment and, in many ways, are forced to interact or participate in the ‘new events’ of the city, which appear temporarily for the period of the biennale’s presence. These new poly-programmed infrastructures, communal in nature, create a series of ‘collaged’ or ‘recycled’ social spaces at various venues of the Biennale where people can meet, gather, relax, ideate, play, nap and enjoy the outdoor activities in Fort Kochi. Besides promoting notions of sustainability, flexibility, recycling and design, the project provokes the viewer to re-imagine how these elements can add alternative value to the way cities are produced and enables art, architecture & design to critically intervene, questioning the processes that currently produce our infrastructure and public spaces.