Tag Archives: bottom-up

Open Source Urbanism With LimeWire Creator

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Saturday August 1, 2009


LimeWire founder Mark Gorton has recently announced to launch an application for open source urbanism, inspired by the peer-to-peer principle. Gorton’s goal is to stimulate “crowdsourced development, freely-accessible…

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Advanced Seed Bombs by Jin-Wook Hwang

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Wednesday June 10, 2009

You might know the seed bomb. Yeah, those small clay balls loaded with seeds. After being dropped in public space, rain will melt the clay to expose the…

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LEGO Dispatch Work in Berlin

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday May 25, 2009

We came across the work of Berlin-based artist Jan Vormann, who combines his passion for both LEGO and dispatch work. Vormann started his own bottom-up reconstruction project fixing…

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Guerrilla Bicycle Lanes

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Wednesday February 11, 2009

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…

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