Two days ago I wrote about the importance of the kiosk to the urban realm, especially the quality of public space. It seems that the world of urban…
Under the name of ‘Save Our Sounds’, the BBC is currently building a huge digital user generated collection of sounds and soundscapes of the world. All…
We all know the kiosks on the busy streets of our world cities — those small, neat pop-up booths that sell about everything, from newspapers and magazines to cigarettes…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Tagged berlin, city, design, kiosk, metropolis, pop-up, public space, shops, street, trend |
During my holiday I read Jennifer Toth’s ‘The Mole People’, a terrific book published in 1993 about the urban legend of homeless people living in the huge…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Tagged activism, gallery, graffiti, mole people, new york, nyc, street art, subway, tunnel, underground |
Singapore’s Telok Blangah Hill Park is an amazing park structure consisting of different landscape types connected through a fly-over-like infrastructure. Within the context of the Weak…
This single post can be considered a preambule of our upcoming series about the so-called ‘Erotic City’. Get prepared.
According to the Times, the blog
Posted in Headline, Theory | Tagged bicycle, city, copenhagen, erotic city, lifestyle, social, Society, trend, trendwatching, urbanism |
Could you live without a car? In the neighbourhood of Vauban, near the German city Freiburg, they can. This innovative neighbourhood is almost car-free, except for…
Controlling a car with your mind… it sounds unrealistic, but just imagine, in 20 to 30 years this will be the new way of driving your car. Just…
It’s holiday time! But how to find cool places, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants in a city you’ve never been to? The only way not to land up…
Joop recently wrote about the floating camping in Sausalito Almere by the Amsterdam-based ‘floating everything’ gurus that are working on these kinds of concepts since…
Last summer we reported about the Flying Grass Carpet, the huge pop-up landscape entirely made of artificial grass. The project of our friends, Rotterdam-based architecture and…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged aachen, art, berlin, budapest, city, flexible, grass, landscape, landscaping, pop-up, public space, rotterdam, temporary, urbanism |
After a decade of neoliberalism selling off public services, local governments are taking matters into own hands again? For example, Amsterdam and the other shareholders of
Matt Brown, a student Interaction Design at the Swedish Umeå Institute of Design, is the guy behind the project ‘Food and the Future of…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology have presented new futuristic bus stops called EyeStop. The EyeStop is entirely covered with touch sensitive E-ink and screens.…
Mapping the most simple stuff can be amazingly interesting. Recently I found this map, which doesn’t need any explanation. During the holiday season this might be a handy tool…
