Tag Archives: installation

CityCamp In Public Space

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 —…

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Digital Paint Bombs

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…

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The City In A Suitcase

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’

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Polder Football

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…

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Book Review: Urban Interventions

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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Urban Playground To Sleep On

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…

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Squeezed Vertical Campsite In Amsterdam


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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‘Das Manteltier’ And The Robotic Zoo

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…

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99 Walking Men Worldwide

‘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…

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An Instant Private Moon

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…

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Burn Motherf*cker, Burn

‘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…

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Parisian Disco


Thanks to Herrjaapmans I found out about Michel de Broin’s installation ‘La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel’. For the occasion of the…

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Be Nice To A Girl, Buy Her A Ring


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…

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Meet Sniff The Digital Dog

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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Terrarium, A Sonic Experience Dreamscape

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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