Roundabout dog

A roundabout dog (Swedish: rondellhund) is a form of street installation that began in Sweden during the autumn of 2006 and continued for the rest of the year. There have been sporadic subsequent occurrences. The phenomenon consists of anonymous people placing homemade dog sculptures, typically made of wood (or sometimes plastic, metal or textile) in roundabouts. Occurrences were reported all over Sweden, and the phenomenon also spread to other countries, including Spain after it was mentioned on television.[1] Swedish tabloid paper Expressen even placed one at Piccadilly Circus.[2]

Roundabout dog on the huge Vallarondellen roundabout (~200m in diameter), in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden

History
Roundabout dog on the Piccotts End roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK

The roundabout dogs started appearing in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden after a sculptured dog that was part of the official roundabout installation Cirkulation II (English: Circulation II) by sculptor Stina Opitz had been vandalised and later removed. The original dog had been made of concrete,[3] and Opitz was planning to make a new version of it after the vandalism,[4] when someone placed a homemade wooden dog [5] on the roundabout. The dog was given a concrete dogbone[6] by another anonymous artist. Soon after the media reported these developments, roundabout dogs started appearing in various places around the country.

In some smaller towns where there were no roundabouts, dog sculptures were placed in ordinary intersections with traffic islands.

In 2009, similar dogs appeared on some of the roundabouts in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.[7]

References
  1. Ekstedt, Annika, Rondellhundar– nu i Spanska medier, retrieved 2007-09-04
  2. Börjesson, Robert, Rondellhundens Londonrapport, retrieved 2007-09-04
  3. Photograph, archived from the original on 2007-03-10, retrieved 2007-09-04
  4. Photograph, archived from the original on 2007-03-10, retrieved 2007-09-04
  5. Photograph, archived from the original on 2007-03-10, retrieved 2007-09-04
  6. Photograph, archived from the original on 2007-03-10, retrieved 2007-09-04
  7. Georgia Anderson (14 April 2009). "You ain't nothing but a hound-about dog". Hemel Gazette. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
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