Strange cardboard & wood thing hanging below the street at Providence Place Mall. What is that thing? Update (early 2004): Liana Araujo-Lane helpfully wrote in with a scoop, and it's even more intriguing than I suspected--thanks, Liana! "I believe that that cardboard wood thing was a project of a student at RISD for a while. She lived in it and commuted to school with a kayak every day. she had to co-ordinate her commuting times with the tides...it was pretty interesting. I learned about this from a teacher I had over last summer at RISD who was friends with this girl."