Tag Archives: diy

Build An Upgradeable Future With Grid Beam


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…

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Book Review: Spacecraft 2, Part 2

Last Friday I paid attention to Spacecraft 2 by showcasing some of the more than 150 projects covered in the book. Under the slogan ‘more fleeting architecture…

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Book Review: Spacecraft 2

In 2007 we fell in love with Spacecraft, a fantastic book published by Gestalten which presents inspiring “projects that meet the changing spatial needs…

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Flexible Living The Russian Way


Today we celebrate article number 300 on The Pop-Up City. No champaign though at our office in Amsterdam, but a serious article about Russian pop-up culture.…

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DIY Nomadic Living

A few days ago I got remembered of Ken Isaacs’ classic book ‘How To Build Your Own Living Structures’ (which you can find in our online library) when I…

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Urban Intervention: Sealing The City

Wonder how to make easy DIY furniture for the urban realm? The French artist Cedric Bernadotte came up with this interventions made from stretch…

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Mediamatic’s Crowdsourced Travel Guide

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…

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Crowdsourcing: The Future Of Our Cities?

The next battle for international cities might be the competition for open source-ness. Which city has the most initiatives using words like ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘city 2.0′, ‘open source’ and…

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Free Classic: ‘How to Build Your Own Living Structures’ by Ken Isaacs

Check out this PDF version of the book ‘How To Build Your Own Living Structures’ by Ken Isaacs, published in 1974. This classic is about…

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