Modern farming is increasingly becoming an urban lifestyle. All over the world residents of metropolitan areas seem to feel the need to reconnect with food and food production. In San…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged agriculture, ecological, food, gardening, landscape, lifestyle, open source, san francisco, social network, Society, tool, urban, website |
Nothing new about a flagship store. Which brand doesn’t have one at the moment? Indeed, the flagship stores form an interesting retail concept in the context of pop-up city development,…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged design, flagship store, flexible, interior, lifestyle, london, metropolitan, running shoes, shop, shoreditch, sneakers |
If you’re the cashier of a city where no-one ever walks on street by night (a so-called boring city), you can easily save money. Just turn off the street lights…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged city, cool, flexible, germany, innovation, light, mobile phone, public space, space, Technology, town, village |
On Wooster Collective I found out about an exhibition on the work of Graffiti Research Lab artist Evan Roth in Vienna. A…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged activism, art, downloading, graffiti, online, open source, piracy, public space, stickers, street art, Technology, vienna |
A city consists of a hard side and a soft side. The hard side tells us something about the physical structure of a city. Too less people realise that what…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged app, application, city, data, digital, experience, graphics, internet, mac, mapping, parallel, physical, public space, software, tagging, tags, visualisation |
A growing development concerning space is the devaluation of the concept by digital ways taking over space functions. The following iPhone app simply shows how…
The ‘Pop-Down Project’ is a funny urban movement from France that brings pop-up blocking to real-life advertising and other annoying elements you find on the street. Through a…
A new smartphone application developed by Sense Networks tells you where to find the most crowded spots at a specific moment. Nice for deciding where to go out,…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged city, exploring, flexible, gps, metropolitan area, mobile phone, navigation, pop-up, public space, san francisco |
How do we handle death in the early 21st century?
An ambitious team lead by Ingo Niermann is making plans for the building of a giant mass grave for mankind:…
Yesterday I realised how many articles on this blog apparently deal with the topic of urban guerrilla movements. This is another interesting one that makes people aware of privacy infringement…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged activism, Architecture, cameras, cctv, design, guerrilla, nottingham, privacy, resistance, street |
On Sunday March 1, a new pop-up art market will take place in the Wijdesteeg parking garage in Amsterdam. Here you will find young leading artists selling their products, fresh…
New York’s Museum of Modern Art running art project Atlantic Pacific is a nice gift to the city’s subway travellers. For more than a month, MoMA…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged art, gallery, metro, moma, museum, new york, nyc, pop-up, station, subway, temporary |
Living in bike city Amsterdam I can hardly imagine how it is to fight for bicycle lanes in your city. In Toronto a group called the Urban Repair…
I came across an online article about a pricewinning Finnish environmental art project called ‘Nuage Vert’. Nuage Vert makes use of laser technology to transform clouds…
Copenhagen-based design platform N55 recently created a sustainable house which can walk. Awesome! The designers state their modular dwelling system enables people to “live a peaceful nomadic live,…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged Architecture, copenhagen, design, ecological, flexible, future, house, mobile, movable, transportable, walking |
