Tag Archives: community

Wheel Chair Beach: Nice!

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday August 27, 2010

The city of Nice takes well care of the disabled. Here at the city’s central beach, I spotted this special section kept for visitors in wheel chairs. For them it…

Posted in Headline | Also tagged beach, disabled, nice, swimming, wheel chair | Leave a comment

Freiburg’s Tolerance Pillar

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday August 25, 2010

Since 2009 the city of Freiburg in South Germany has a tolerance zone. On the Augustinerplatz in the center of the city, a perplex pillar spreads colorful light…

Posted in Headline | Also tagged city, culture, freiburg, public space, square, tolerance, zone | 1 Comment

The Grassroots Mapping Community

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday July 22, 2010

Since BP’s oil incontinence in the Mexican Gulf the company tries to avoid brand damage by controlling media and by censoring maps and pictures. Photographers are told what…

Posted in Headline | Also tagged balloon, bp, disaster, environment, grassroots, mapping, oil, open source | 1 Comment

A Woman’s Answer To Modernism

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday July 15, 2010

Under the name of Wild Beamen, Dutch artist Hester Scheurwater has projected images of herself on some post-war apartment blocks in Rotterdam. The work belongs to…

Posted in Headline | Also tagged Architecture, art, censure, erotic city, modernism, public space, rotterdam, social media | 1 Comment

BlockChalk: Forget About The Neighborhood

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday March 9, 2010

BlockChalk is a new locative media tool made by former Delicious people Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer. BlockChalk is available for different…

Posted in Headline, Society | Also tagged api, city, flexible, foursquare, gps, locative, neighborhood, open source urbanism, smartphone, social media, Society, urban | 2 Comments

Build An Upgradeable Future With Grid Beam

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday February 5, 2010

Grid Beam is a building system which enables anyone to construct a variety of objects quickly and easily without expensive wood shop services or equipment. All…

Posted in Architecture | Also tagged building, construction, diy, flexible, future, grid beam, ideology, lego, meccano, re-use, recycling | Leave a comment

The Urban Underwater Experience

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday September 20, 2009

I often get jealous at advertising creatives. They are able to create atmospheres, situations and places that are unthinkable of in the real world. They are able to create illusions…

Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged city, commercial, cool, creative, design, experience, illusion, inflatable, street | 1 Comment

San Francisco’s Street Park Plan

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Wednesday September 9, 2009

Recently heard about a plan by the San Francisco Parks Trust that aims to reclaim so-called ‘unaccepted streets’ as public parks. The programme’s goal is to…

Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged gardening, green, landscaping, park, san francisco, streets, transformation | Leave a comment

Mapping the Fruit!

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Tuesday July 7, 2009

“To my delight I found serviceberry trees in several places, as well as mulberry bushes and trees, two cherry trees I didn’t know about, and even a plum tree!”
The…

Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged ecological, food, free, fruit, google maps, green, mapping, sidewalk harvesting, social, Technology, usufruct | 3 Comments

Akoha: the World’s First Social Reality Game

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Sunday March 15, 2009

I came across something very cute called Akoha, which is described as the ‘world’s first social reality game’. Akoha (launched into public beta in December) lets you earn…

Posted in International Practices, Theory | Also tagged game, internet, iphone, kindness, reality, social, Society, Technology | Leave a comment

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