Last Friday I had an interesting talk with landscape designer Ronald Rietveld about temporary urbanism and flexible strategies for the city of Amsterdam. He revealed a great design…
Posted in Architecture, Headline | Also tagged amsterdam, event, experience, flexible, floating, landscape, lifestyle, modular, pop-up, public space, scenes |
One of these days Soundpiece will be installed in downtown Rotterdam. Soundpiece is a major permanent open air sound installation, meant to transform the Schouwburgplein into a permanent…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged art, audio, city, experience, festivals, program, public space, rotterdam, sound, soundscape |
The iPhone app Pizza Hut has launched to order and get meals delivered is nice. But even more incredible is the story of Mumbai’s hot lunch…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged dabbawalla, delivery, distribution, food, logistics, lunch, management, metropolis, mumbai, network, subway, train |
Die Wende and the German reunification twenty years ago inspired us to look back and find out about pop-up culture in the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR). One of the…
Our friends of Mediamatic and Partizan Publik recently launched the Amsterdam Biennale last friday, which is the first crowdsourced, user generated biennial in the world. In…
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…
The work of the famous Improv Everywhere group is now captured in a book and has become mature as a new form of performance art. The book ‘Causing…
The contemporary web creates opportunities for for new types of content produced in completely different settings and styles. Every Internet user has the ability to make good stuff…
How often did I fuck up a whole afternoon of working being unproductive due to immense tiredness? Drinking coffee is not the only solution. Taking a 30 to 40 minutes…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Also tagged amsterdam, flexible, innovative, lips, london, power-nap, sleeping, stuttgart, tokyo, working, working nomads |
Well, it’s Christmas, so let’s talk about pop-up religion. We’ve found a nice temporary cathedral in Belgium…
33.000 Crates of Belgian beer brand Jupiler are being used to build a…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged Architecture, art, beer, belgium, brussels, cathedral, construction, design, installation, temporary, world expo |
The collection of pictures is the result of an excursion to Berlin, the City of Space. It shows the inverse spatial situation compared to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam,…
—Photo: Simon Köppen
Kubik is a temporary light-room-installation created to inspirit unused urban space with an arrangement of water tanks, light shows and electronic beats. Stacked up tank-walls…
Carl Rohde is a trendwatcher and the leader of a network of ‘coolhunters’ across the world. After many years of working as a professor at the University of Utrecht, Rohde…
