Tag Archives: urban

Indoor Biking At Amsterdam’s Temporary Bike Bar

Over the last weeks, trend and idea magazine PSFK published some articles about the developing bicycle culture in metropolitan areas around the world. Particurarly interesting is the rather…

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Transformable Mercedes Pop-Up Stage

Dutch artist Kevin van Braak transformed an old six meter long Mercedes van into a traveling performance stage. By tilting one side of the van the…

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3D Facade Projection In Amsterdam

Last Thursday, Samsung introduced a large-scale commercial 3D Outdoor projection at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, to promote their new 3D screen technology. The audience was able…

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Berlinomat: Street Art To Go From Berlin

Rudolf from Urbanshit recently discovered this amazing ‘street art to go’ vending machine at Berlin’s Central Station (Hauptbahnhof). The so-called Berlinomat provides the book

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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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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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Take A Look Into The Wohnzimmer Bar


Over the last years we visited a lot of so called ‘Wohnzimmer’ bars. The Wohnzimmer (‘living room’) bar is a unique typology in bars which gained popularity over…

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New: Cities The Magazine

We just received some information about the launch of a brand new magazine about the urban sphere, entitled Cities. The first edition, which is a test issue (

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Lock Your Bike With Your iPhone

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…

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Drop Spots: Turning Public Space Into A Secret Mailbox

Speaking about a city that has to become more exciting, online applications can do a job that’s worth a million. I recently stumbled upon this website called

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The Playstation Bus Stop Experience

Waiting for the bus is boring. That’s what Sony brought to the idea to sponsor bus stops and make them more enjoyable with their Playstation 2 ad campaign. This bus…

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New: Knitted Phone Booth Sleeve

Sleeves for the iPhone are available in every single material and colour. The ‘WePhone’ (the public phone) on the contrary never had such a fancy jacket.
Of course…

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Acoustic Ecology: Endangered Soundscapes

Under the name of ‘Save Our Sounds’, the BBC is currently building a huge digital user generated collection of sounds and soundscapes of the world. All…

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The Inkjet City

Recently we wrote about Contrail. This project even goes beyond that! Some guys have invented an amazing city printer called the Chalkbot. The Chalkbot is a…

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Darmstadt’s Pop-Up Theatre

The architects of Berlin agency Convertible City have designed a great theatre transformation project in the German town of Darmstadt. During the recontruction of…

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