"Public Art is an interdisciplinary practice, one that refuses to settle as simply art or design. If design can be considered a form of practice that is usually conducted in response to a brief or a set of requirements, and if fine art is defined by its independence from such controls, then public art, in drawing on both approaches, can construct a series of differing responses to sites, forming a continuum of practice located between art and design. If designers are expected to provide solutions to problems, albeit creative ones within a given set of parameters, and artists are encouraged to rethink the terms of engagement, then public art practice, by operating in a place between them, is well positioned to address the procedures of both art and architecture."
--Jane Rendell, Critical Spatial Practice
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