A Music Album You Can Only Listen To In A Forest
John Moose is a Swedish folk band that has chosen to pre-release their debut album and make it publicly available for free! But here's the catch: you can only listen to it when you are in the woods.
Wecup Lets You Vote With Trash
Public installation Wecup offers a simple and interactive solution for dealing with the large amounts of waste left after festivals and outdoor events.
Year-Long Tour De France Inspires New Pop-Up Urbanism Book
Collectif Etc. is a group made up of architects and designers who set off on a year-long cycling trip around France to encounter examples of citizen-led urban development and experiment with temporary urban interventions in a variety of settings.
Tweeting Potholes Complain To City Officials To Fix Them
Potholes in Panama City are tweeting at government officials to fix them, thanks to a project launched by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather.
Super-Temporary Restaurant Serves Dinners In Trains And Bathrooms
Just when pop-up restaurants were starting to bore the hell out of us, we received an email from the people behind Wilddineren (Wild Dining), a super-temporary not-for-profit restaurant that serves unconventional dinners at even more unconventional locations.
Amsterdam Music Venue Opens Netherlands’ Smallest Museum
Located in Amsterdam, music venue and cultural center Paradiso has become quite famous in the nearly 50 years since it first opened. Now, it can add one more function to its resume, as host of the smallest museum in the country (possibly the world).
Rotterdam Festival Explores Another Level Of Urban Space
From June 11-14 a new festival is taking over the rooftops of Rotterdam. Rotterdam Rooftop Days offers a new perspective of the city and a chance to explore previously unused spaces in creative and entertaining ways.
Start-Up Lets People Rent Out Their Windows As Advertising Space
Dutch company Add My Window offers people the chance to rent out their windows as advertising space in exchange for some extra pocket-money.
Your House Is The New Shopping Street With Amazon’s Dash Button
Amazon's latest invention Dash Button is another step in the service-based economy. Just hit a button and get your favorite household commodities delivered to your doorstep. Will this change the game for the shopping street?
A Text-Based Concierge Service That Works Like Magic
Magic is a start-up that offers to bring you anything you wish, no questions asked. By sending a text along with your request, it is possible to get anything done, for a price. It’s yet another app that is fuelling the new on-demand urban economy, think Uber, but for anything you can think of.
World’s First Virtual Reality Theme Park Opening In 2016
Move over Nintendo Wii, the new age of virtual reality entertainment has arrived in the form of a virtual theme park. A Utah-based startup is taking on the noble task of creating the world’s first virtual reality playground called The Void.
What3words Wants To Change The World’s Addressing System
What3words wants to do away with the inefficiencies of modern addressing systems by giving every 3 meter square on the planet a unique 3 word address.
Five Interactive Games That Turn The City Into A Playing Board
Whether it is an old school board game like The Game of the Goose, or maybe a Playstation game of the Grand Theft Auto variety, games are fun, and we like to play them. But it appears that there's another type of game that is getting increasingly popular: interactive games where the city is our playing board.
Beam: Projecting The Future
Beam is a smartphone-controlled portable projector that fits in any light socket, and allows you to turn any surface into a projection screen.
Empty Office Floor Becomes A Temporary Airbnb Hotel
As part of last month's Ruimtekoers Festival in the Dutch city of Arnhem, the Woonpioniers collective transformed an empty office floor into four intimate temporary shelters that were rented out on Airbnb.
