This project explored the interface between art, regional planning, traditional Chinese medicine and the health of a city.


Needles appearing across the city brought attention to the some of the city's most challenging problems, greatest assets, as well as places with enormous potential.


From April-October 2010, needles moved from site to site in a roving city-wide installation.


The project coincided with a series of public workshops to help steer the Portland Plan, a guide for the city's growth over the next 25 years. 

(portland, oregon)

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“Using the body as a metaphor for the entire city, Kuby hopes to identify those places in the landscape that are important to us as a community, drawing attention not only to the significance of each focal point but also to the inter-connectedness of them to each other as well as to ourselves.”


Susan Anderson

Director,  Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability

Point Name: “Space In Between”

Location: Gateway Green Site - I-84 & I-205

Yalcin Erhan