Cellophane Graffiti: Drawing On A Changing Wall
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 I stumbled upon an article on PSFK reporting about a new graffiti project that doesn’t demolish the city’s walls and buildings by using removeable sealing foil as a graffiti […]
The Urban Cursor
Yeah, we’re living in times of increasing interaction between digital and physical worlds. This public space project by Danish designer Sebastian Campion (also known as the owner of Guerrilla Innovation) is a good example of an idea that tends to stimulate thinking about the urban realm and the Internet as two linked entities. Campion created […]
Zipping From A Winehouse
One of the micro pavilions presented at the Amsterdam Biennale is completely made out of wine boxes. Visitors of the biennial, which is about contemporary culture and art, could tap wine from the house. The winehouse is designed by our friends of DUS Architects, the same folks who made the Gecekondu that we reported about […]
The Cardboard Monster Invasion
Wooster Collective reports about this great animation made by the Dutch artist Sjors Vervoort. The cardboard creatures, monsters and insects show to conquer the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Actually I assume the movie is recorded in Eindhoven, but I’m not sure. There’re a couple of words to read on billboards that make me think so. […]
Sealing The City
Wonder how to make easy DIY furniture for the urban realm? The French artist Cedric Bernadotte came up with this interventions made from stretch plastic that’s usually being used for the sealing of cargo. The ultra flexible addition to the urban environment should be considered as a contribution to the debate about temporary use of […]
Mediamatic's Crowdsourced Travel Guide
Our friends of Mediamatic and Partizan Publik recently launched the Amsterdam Biennale last friday, which is the first crowdsourced, user generated biennial in the world. In fact the biennial is an exposition coming with a broader project entitled Mediamatic Travel. This travel project is a contemporary open source travel network with yet 66 participating guides […]
Big Brother Is Tickling You
I just found out about a great public art project by London-based artist and interaction designer Chris O’Shea. He uses a giant LED screen to create a pretty strange Augmented Reality-like installation entitled Hand From Above. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, Hand From Above encourages the passers-by “to question our normal routine […]
How The Car Drained Detroit
The decline of Detroit is often explained by the fall of the Fordist economy in the city after the global shift to Post-Fordism. In this theory the disappearance of mainly the car industry is directly connected to the vacancy problems that Detroit is facing nowadays. Indeed, during the last decades the fall of the automobile […]
The Secret Behind Great Concept Stores?
During my recent stay in Berlin I visited one of the most interesting concept stores I’ve ever seen, called Supalife. Located in a side street of the Pappelallee in Prenzlauerberg, this cosy little store sells a combination of the best international books about style, concepts, architecture and urbanism, as well as local arty specialities. In […]
Crowdsourcing: The Future Of Our Cities?
The next battle for international cities might be the competition for open source-ness. Which city has the most initiatives using words like ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘city 2.0’, ‘open source’ and ‘DIY’? The ‘user generated’ city is becoming increasingly popular in the debate about the future city. But does it make sense? The discussion about open source urbanism […]
Twitter Trends Localized
Twitter introduced a new way of communicating, but what’s more interesting, is its data openness. And it all gets even better when Twitter can be used to map local trends distilled from geotagged tweets. Information Aesthetics writes about Trendsmap, which is an interesting Twitter-related initiative absolutely worth mentioning. Trendsmap is a real-time mapping of Twitter […]
Mapping Distance To The Nearest McDonald's
The data graphic above illustrates the distance to the nearest McDonald’s restaurant in the United States. In some regions the distance to the nearest McDonald’s is poignant far. Some unhappy US citizens have to travel more than an hour to grab themselves a Big Mac. Poor them! Indeed… this data visual would have had more […]
Paradise Lost: A Newspaper About One Weekend Of Love
I just found the three editions of the newspaper Paradise Lost delivered at my apartment (thanks for that by the way). Paradise Lost writes about a weekend love of two imaginary American tourists, Lucy and Felix, who stay in hotel Paradise Lost in Amsterdam. The newspaper reports in text and images about the three days […]
Passageway House: A Love Baby Of Jane Jacobs And Richard Florida
Speaking about interesting spaces, two weeks ago I joined an excursion through the ‘problematic’ neighbourhood of North Rotterdam. Halfway we passed this incredible semi-public combination of a passageway and a house. How does that work? In order to connect a new permanent indoor style warehouse with a traditional shopping street suffering from vacancy, housing association […]
The Four 2016 Olympic Master Plans
The final decision about the organising city of the 2016 Olympic Games will be made tonight. 115 Voting members of the International Olympic Committee will come together in Copenhagen, Denmark to choose between the four competitors: Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. Bookmakers are predicting Rio or Chicago to win, but all are very […]
