Some time ago we already paid attention to the great and inventive Pop-Up Lunch initiative by New York-based Alexandra Pulver. She changes public urban…
Brooklyn-based interaction designer Brett Camper did some great work with these pretty 8-Bit city maps. The maps are designed with 1980s video games…
The technological revolution increasingly change the way people work, live with each other and deal with time and space. Due to modern information technologies, labor becomes flexible and…
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To improve the speed on the New York sidewalks and prevent pedestrian accidents Improv Everywhere came up with yet another urban prank. Slow tourists are seperated…
As one of the students participating in an interface design program, Berlin-based artist Fabian Brunsing designed this rather remarkable privatized bench in public space.…
During Arbor Day Weekend QR codes were seeded across New York City’s Central Park, transforming it into a mobile interactive experience. The QR codes we formerly used to…
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Soon a mobile pop-up laundry truck will drive the streets of New York City. It will not only facilitate mobile laundry services but also asks people to donate…
‘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…
Our highly appreciated reporter in Hamburg Rudolf from Urbanshit recently wrote about a project by graphic designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann, who’s currently living…
Last October I wrote about some initiatives that aim to improve the so-called user-generated city. One of those initiatives is the New York BigApps competition,…
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Does the Global Village have its own newspaper? Maybe the New York Times is, considering its international coverage. As one of the few of…
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Some of you may already know the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, a New York-based group famous for its technological approach to graffiti, expressed in…
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Last week I came across designer Justus Bruns who told me about his ambitious idea to temporarily transform New York’s Times Square into Art Square. ”Times Square…
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Improvement of public space is a hot topic these days. All kinds of idea makers seem to expand the function of the public realm by adding new objects,…
