Tag Archives: Society

Eno, The Black Dog And The Airport

This is the first time I will discuss music on this blog. But it’s relevant, and yes, of course we love music. Especially the music that is written, mixed or…

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BlockChalk: Forget About The Neighborhood

BlockChalk is a new locative media tool made by former Delicious people Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer. BlockChalk is available for different…

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Book Review: Public Phenomena By Temporary Services

“Dedicated to all of the uncredited modifiers, inventors, communicators, and public citizens whose work has changed our common landscape.” This is the first line of the publication ‘Public

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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2

“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main…

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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis

Hamburg has its HafenCity, London transformed the Canary Wharf area into a new business district, and Copenhagen built a new cultural center at former navy base. Over the…

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Hamburg’s Manifest Against The Creative Class

Richard Florida’s ghost roams throughout Europe these days. We live in a world of global cities that are involved in an interurban competition to attract investors and the so-called international…

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PIG 05049: Mapping A Pig’s Life

More news about art and animals! PIG 05049 is a project by Rotterdam-based artist Christien Meindertsma. She has spent three years on mapping one single pig, with…

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Spreading Love By RFID Tagged Pigeons

Use a dove to show your love! Starting today, Amsterdam people can use city pigeons to spread their love. Flying from loft to loft, hundred ‘love doves’ contribute to the…

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Sub/City People

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…

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One Minute Glimpses of True City Life

If you’re curious what happens when a regular family in Addis Abeba wakes up, or how people are night clubbing in Hong Kong between four and five in…

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Introducing the Erotic City

This single post can be considered a preambule of our upcoming series about the so-called ‘Erotic City’. Get prepared.

According to the Times, the blog

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Where Are the Blonds?

Mapping the most simple stuff can be amazingly interesting. Recently I found this map, which doesn’t need any explanation. During the holiday season this might be a handy tool…

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What Are New Liberal Arts?

We just have to spend a few words on the recently published book ‘New Liberal Arts’ by the Snarkmarket network.
Andrew Fitzgerald states:
“In this digital…

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Klaus Overmeyer on the Importance of Urban Pioneers

Klaus Overmeyer is a Berlin-based landscape architect. The philosophy of his office, UC Klaus Overmeyer, is deeply rooted in an optimistic attitude towards the contemporary landscape stimulating an…

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PACO: a Second Skin from Tokyo

Japanese architects Jo Nagasaka and Schemata Architecture Office have designed the PACO. PACO is a complete house in a cube of three by three meters.
PACO…

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