Temporary Public installation, realized for the duration of the Angewandte’s Festival, Oskar Kokoschka Platz became the Piazza Novissima. Oskar-Kokoschka- Platz was transformed by a series of brightly colored patterned columns, arranged to form gateways, seating, colonnades, and social settings that reclaimed the street as a civic space. Here, the column’s symbolism was undermined by their ephemeral cardboard materiality and the pop-graphic patterns that wrapped them. The columns featured expressive capitals designed by students that developed a kind of civic order made up of plants, lights, weather vanes, and other symbolic agglomerations. Variations in height allowed the columns to act in different ways—from landmarks to social infrastructure, as places to sit, discuss, and come together. The design played on different ideas of publicness: the ad hoc assemblage of a street party, the formal rigor of the classical agora, and the folk symbolism of the midsummer festival. With echoes of Hollein-esque columns, Piazza Novissima argued for streets as an inclusive and expressive public realm. The columns, tables, and seats were formed using typically infrastructural materials: cardboard tubes usually used to cast columns, concrete tubes used for pipes, and pallets used to transport goods. Here, they were reassembled and dressed up for a celebration.