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,…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged application, ar, augmented reality, bigapps, city, datamining, lifestyle, metro, new york, open data, path, subway, taxi |
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, internet, magazine, media, michael jackson, new york times, news, newspaper, web |
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged digital, gml, graffiti, graphics, language, markup, new york, programming, street art, Technology, xml |
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged amsterdam, art, film, la, los angeles, manhattan, new york, pecha kucha, public space, rembrandtplein, screens, times square, video |
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,…
Humans are curious, and they love their curiosity being triggered. In regard to this, the New York-based Museum of the Phantom City does a very good…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged app, city, festival, gps, iphone, museum, new york, public space, secret, Technology, ubicomp, ubiquitous, utopia |
In an era in which the disciplines of architecture and urban design are injected with technology, we see new innovative software for urban design and modelling being launched.…
Reading on the subway is a New York ritual. “Even without a seat, even while pressed with strangers into human panini, (…), even when stumbling home after a…
How to make something out of nothing? According to NYC-based artist Justin Gignac, “one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. But New York City’s garbage, well,…
On October 16 the movie ‘New York, I Love You’ will hit theatres in the United States. The movie is about the love for a city, and, in…
The following is inspired by the book ‘The Mole People’. For the ignorant amongst you; The Mole People is a book by Jennifer Toth that came…
On the Urbanophile blog I stumbled upon an interesting graphic that gives insight in the huge differences between New York’s day and night population density…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged brooklyn, commute, data, data visualization, day, density, graphic, manhattan, new york, night, population |
Today I stumbled upon the work of New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani, who invented a no-nonsense, effective and creative form of sticker art by taping up the walls and streets…
During my holiday I read Jennifer Toth’s ‘The Mole People’, a terrific book published in 1993 about the urban legend of homeless people living in the huge…
