October 2007. Visitors to Penrith witness parking rules with a difference - instead of penalty notices and fines, some car owners received an award for examples of their creative parking.
Pink Wardens – employees of The Ministry of Creative Parking - patrolled the streets of Penrith looking for examples of good, creative parking, and rewarded car owners with a lollipop and certificate.
A picture of their parking effort was added to the Ministry website for visitors to compare parking efforts, comment and offer the Pink Warden’s services to other towns with parking issues.
The ‘Pink Warden’ project was a light hearted way to raise discussion about rules and regulations that we live with. The project responds to hundreds of letters that have appeared in the papers from visitors claiming they will never return to Penrith because they received parking tickets. Local businesspeople feel the parking regulations are damaging trade and ruining the town.
“A lot of my work is based on ideas about rules and systems, how our world is organised accepting or challenging it.’
Pink Wardens – employees of The Ministry of Creative Parking - patrolled the streets of Penrith looking for examples of good, creative parking, and rewarded car owners with a lollipop and certificate.
A picture of their parking effort was added to the Ministry website for visitors to compare parking efforts, comment and offer the Pink Warden’s services to other towns with parking issues.
The ‘Pink Warden’ project was a light hearted way to raise discussion about rules and regulations that we live with. The project responds to hundreds of letters that have appeared in the papers from visitors claiming they will never return to Penrith because they received parking tickets. Local businesspeople feel the parking regulations are damaging trade and ruining the town.
“A lot of my work is based on ideas about rules and systems, how our world is organised accepting or challenging it.’
Ministry of Creative Parking visits Penrith
The Ministry of Creative Parking is a department of the Ministry of Creative Existence.
This project took place as part of FRED07.
This project took place as part of FRED07.
'Pink Wardens' prepare for a day's ticketing