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This was the year New York restaurants became obsessed with poutine, Montreal's signature comfort food mash-up of french fries, cheese curds and gravy. No one did it better than Mile End, where savory bits of Montreal-style smoked meat brisket are added to a flawless concoction of fresh Maine curds, chicken-mushroom gravy, and perfectly crisp fries. NYC Tour De Poutine.

What does comfort mean to you? City dwellers describe their own ideas of comfort in the urban setting, and their desires and dreams to make city spaces more comfortable to live in. If you had your way, how would you change the city that you live in?

Social Bits is an international research group based in Linz, Austria and Tokyo, Japan focusing on the artistic output of social interactions in real world locations; specifically in urban environments, public spaces and unique architectural complexes. Social interaction is a sustained presence in all societies throughout history; however, the methods of interaction have radically evolved in recent years, aided and augmented by both technological developments and the sense of comfort generated by these developments.

Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, props, and holds up. It is a manual for those things that encourage, give comfort, approval, and solace; that care for and provide consolation and the necessities of life. It is a manual for that which assists corroborates, advocates, articulates, substantiates, champions, and endorses; for what stands behind, underpins, frames, presents, maintains, and strengthens. Support Structures is a manual for those things that give, in short, support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world.

Once we decide to go for PUT instead of POST, we step out the comfort zone of django, there is no mapped form filed, no validation, we have to deal with the raw WSGI interface by ourselves.

This ingenious design called “Le Clochard” by SNURK is a great way to be reminded of the daily plight of the world’s homeless.