Recently the Dutch town of Castricum was been changed into a temporary open air campsite. Between August 19 and August 29, camping was made possible all over the place —…
VR/Urban is a Berlin/Glasgow-based collective of ‘public media interventionists’ that works together to create real-time installations. The aim of all their projects is to reclaim urban…
Swedish artist Michael Johansson (who in general makes the most brilliant series of heavily packed regular objects) created this handy packed city. The so-called ‘Umedalen Skulptur’…
Everyone is invited to play football new style. Spanish artist Maider López (1976) will be transforming the Dutch polder landscape into a football field with natural…
Reading ‘Urban Interventions’, a recently published book by the ever inspiring German publisher Gestalten is like re-experiencing last two years of The Pop-Up City. The book…
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During the annual art fair Art Pie International/Kunstvlaai 2010 (taking place between May 15-23), Amsterdam-based artist Brian Kersbergen aka ROYALSTEEZ showed his biggest work…
This week, Amsterdam-based artist Leonard van Munster will be opening a squeezed vertical campsite in Amsterdam. The Camping is a project in a series of…
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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…
‘Walking Men 99′ is a site-specific Public Art Installation, surrounding the site of the upcoming Four Seasons Hotel in NYC’s Downtown area. It features a photographic collage of…
This week Hamburg’s urban intervention and critical lifestyle blog Urbanshit reports about a great project made by the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov. The project called ‘Private…
‘Fire with Fire’ is an installation by Isabelle Hayeur, a Montreal-based artist working in the fields of landscape design and architecture. The installation, which…
Thanks to Herrjaapmans I found out about Michel de Broin’s installation ‘La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel’. For the occasion of the…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged disco, disco ball, festival, mirrors, night, nightclub, nightlife, nuit blanche, paris, stars |
After fashion design had to save Amsterdam’s Red Light District back in 2008, now it’s the jewellery designers turn. Talented jewellery makers were given cheap spaces…
In case all dogs will extinguish, interaction designers Karolina Sobecka and Jim George have a solution. They’ve created Sniff, a brilliant lifelike projection of a dog…
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Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.
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