Two years ago I stumbled upon Banksy’s pet shop in New York City. It was amazing. Not only the statement made by the street artist from…
Fresh and colorful stuff from adbusting land! Thanks to Rudolf from Urbanshit I stumbled upon the interesting creations of French street artist Ox. To…
How would it be to drive in the Google Street View car? The designers of F.A.T. built a fake Google Street View car and successfully provoked…
“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main…
Yesterday, I discussed the emerging social unrest in Hamburg caused by the current neoliberal city-branding campaign and the ongoing policy focus on the creative class instead taking…
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Richard Florida’s ghost roams throughout Europe these days. We live in a world of global cities that are involved in an interurban competition to attract investors and the so-called international…
This year we’ve often been writing about all sorts of installations made by designers, by architects, by artists, or cross-discipline collectives, and even by ourselves. The installations we chose to…
Activism Doubt is a vibrant new book by Dutch Artists Harmen de Hoop and Jonas Staal. The book published by Onomatopee is the result…
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…
This blog’s aim is to report about the flexible city. This is not only about moving physical shapes and patterns, but also about the institutional context. On this blog we’ve…
New chapter of the Gecekondu and Sausalito Almere story! Last week we reported about the Gecekondu summerhouse hotel built by DUS Architects at the beach…
At the ‘beach’ of Amsterdam’s new suburb Almere, our friends of DUS Architects have built an illegal temporary summer house slash hotel which opened its doors three days…
Are highly commercial megastores and supermalls the new domains of guerrilla artists?
Encastrable is an interesting urban project intiated by Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet of the…
No outdoor advertising. No billboards, no neon signs, the electronic panels. No posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. That’s São Paulo these days, Brazil’s largest…
Urban Camouflage is a project by a group of German creatives who are inspired by the camouflage suits of snipers and hunters. The idea is simple: camouflage…
