Does the Global Village have its own newspaper? Maybe the New York Times is, considering its international coverage. As one of the few of…
Posted in Headline, Theory | Also tagged data visualisation, digital world, geodata, infographic, magazine, media, michael jackson, new york times, news, newspaper, nyc, web |
Hi fellow Flying Dutchman, good news for us here. A new wheel makes it possible to lock your bike with your iPhone. The Copenhagen Wheel is…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged bike, city, copenhagen, cycling, environment, exercise, iphone, lifestyle, locative media, mit, social network, sustainable, Technology, urban |
Last week we mentioned this Sealing the City project by Cedric Bernadotte. I don’t know whether this is a coincidence or not, but some days ago…
Last week we entered our new office located in a villa that is part of the formal Shell laboratory in Amsterdam. As we wanted to have a better…
Two days ago Twitter platform developers announced to launch a new, revolutionary component in Twittersphere: location. A geodata team is working on an API that makes it possible to map…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged augmented reality, constructivism, geodata, geography, geotagging, location, soft city, Technology, twitter, ubicomp, urbanism |
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology have presented new futuristic bus stops called EyeStop. The EyeStop is entirely covered with touch sensitive E-ink and screens.…
The New York Times and Bright report about a new, free, smartphone application by Dennis Crowley called Foursquare. Foursquare seeks to turn…
The creator of this three-dimensional pixel map of Hong Kong has put big efforts into this fantastic artwork. The unknown artist entirely pixeled the city of Hong Kong…
Buying second hand stuff, especially at websites like eBay, has some disadvantages. For instance, you cannot try or feel the product you plan to buy beforehand. Albert Richters, a student at…
Publicity Plant is a social interaction installation designed by Sander Veenhof. The installation lets plants grow through us writing about it on the Internet.…
The local government of Athens must have been concerned about the pale skin of the local nerds. Flickr user Tribalddb.Athens made these pictures of…
City marketing is hot for already 20 years. I believe this is not a hype but a necessary consequence of the fact that cities…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Also tagged Architecture, city branding, city icons, city marketing, communication, design, icon, spatial, urbanism, world |
Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti.…
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…
