Kiosk Collectives
Kiosks as community activators in suburban neighbourhoods.
Type: Design Competition
Date: 2021
Client: Outsider Magazine
Team: Daryl Mulvihill, Emanuela Schrione
Result: 3rd Place
The suburbs need kiosks!
Kiosk Collectives reimagines the urban kiosk as a community activator in suburban environments — a strategic, lightweight intervention at key locations in neighbourhoods that are often overlooked in urban design.
The project targets the monofunctional public spaces that characterise suburban neighbourhoods: generous in area, thin in programme, and designed around single uses rather than community encounter. Kiosks positioned at the right moments can change that — creating recognisable gathering points where people can meet, congregation can happen, and a sense of belonging can take hold.
Where urban centres attract investment and attention, suburban neighbourhoods are the places where most people spend most of their time. Kiosk Collectives argues that these places deserve the same quality of street-level activation — and that the kiosk, reinvented for the collective, is the way to start.
