Dupont Underground is officially a thing. Archotus spent much of 2015 consulting with the Washington DC arts non-profit to develop a curatorial plan, in part to stir fundraising and municipal and community support, but also to have the opportunity to do something really cool. That cool thing became Re-Ball!, a design competition asking entrants to repurpose the 750,000 ball-pit balls from the National Building Museum's Beach exhibit and create a unique installation within the Dupont Underground.

The Re-Ball! competition had over 150 entrants from 19 different countries. Archotus assembled an awesome jury, and five finalists were chosen. Hou de Sousa's Raise/Raze was the winner, and now the hard work begins. Archotus will spend the next six weeks wrangling volunteer installation assemblers and building a massive reconfigurable environment. Hou de Sousa projects we will need about 3000 work hours just to build the components, let alone the environment. Archotus will be directing the effort and the build out. Citylab's Kriston Capps understands what this is going to take...