Public space is valuable and fundamental for people in the city. However, cities are largely made up of streets – space that is also considered public space, but which primarily belongs to the car. This needs to change!

Therefore we made a new type of road bump: a carpet that appear as a multiple of three-dimensional spikes from the cars’ point of view.


The carpet is placed in the streets to occupy space, send a message to the cars and slow them down. This is a simple measure that can be done without legislative consideration as the bump is in reality not a bump, but an optical illusion.

The carpet is therefore a simple tool to reclaim streets as public space for people and not for cars, so we have more space to live, less noise and cleaner air.