Solar-Powered Trikes Delivering Food In Amsterdam
FOODLOGICA is a system where food is transported throughout the city of Amsterdam using electric bikes.
The Craft Of Making Urban Neon Signs
Luxury Mindz created this mini-documentary about neon artist Todd Sanders who makes truly beautiful neon signs.
Wanted: Coolhunters For A Future Brabant
Pop-Up City is looking for savvy students and professionals to form a team of coolhunters that will search for inspiring innovations, ideas and trends in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant.
3 Seconds Of Art In A Parking Garage Gallery
You probably already guessed that '3sec.' in the name refers to the time you'll be able to look at the artworks on the walls of this gallery. But what may not come to your mind at first when you see the name is its specific location. 3sec.gallery is a gallery in a parking garage entrance in Dutch city Breda.
Konnektid With Your Neighbors And Learn From Them
Konnektid is an online network of neighbors willing to share their knowledge of sports, language, or some other expertise.
Reclaiming The Streets By Cargo Bike
Last year Copenhagen art collective N55 and designer Till Wolfer created the XYZ Cargo, a cargo bike that's able to take on a wide range of functions due to flexible modules. Now, Brussels-based collectives Urban Foxes and Soft Revolution are taking that further by developing new modules under the name of Vélo M2.
Tokyo Void: Possibilities In Absence
The recently published book Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence explores unused spaces in Tokyo as well as the opportunities that lie in them.
BenchesCollective Turns Streets Into A Giant Outdoor Café
Every first Sunday of the month, the BankjesCollectief (BenchesCollective) turns the streets of Amsterdam into the 'largest' outdoor café in the world. The owners of the benches decide what they offer and the visitors determine the value afterwards. Of course, the offerings can be food and drinks, but also activities like salsa classes, knitting workshops, and (clothing) swap sessions.
Plot: An On-Demand Private Urban Garden
Owning a garden in the city is usually considered a privilege. But people of Manchester don’t have that misfortune any more. They have PLOT at their disposal, an on-demand private garden that can be booked for two hours a day, whenever they need it.
Bringing New Life Into A Slaughterhouse
Antwerp-based urban design office NDVR (pronounced as 'endeavor') is working on the redevelopment of the Slaughterhouse site in the city's Damwijk district. Their continuous search for a new role of the urban planner in contemporary society got them involved with Stadsklas, a spring school on DIY urbanism hosted by Stroom The Hague. We spoke with Tim Devos and Seppe De Blust, both from NDVR, about how you could use problems to make a change.
Interactive Exhibit Showcases Hong Kong’s Neon Cityscape
M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture, is engaging the city’s residents with an attempt to preserve and appreciate the art, culture, and history behind the signs. Launching an interactive online exhibition of some of the best examples of the city’s neon signs, M+ is documenting and mapping an iconic part of the city’s streetscape, before it disappears.
Traffic Light Man Dances For Safety
Urban interventions aren't the sole domain of urban interventionists any more — big brands have started to hack the urban landscape. Car brand Smart, for instance, that wants to entertain pedestrians in Lisbon with a tweaked traffic light that starts dancing every time right before it changes to green.
Print Van Takes To The Streets Of Paris
Food trucks are hip and happening, but also non-food businesses discover the potential of the food truck as a new way to reach out to customers. In Paris, a collective of designers converted an old ice cream van into a screen printing shop on wheels.
Spotting Circles Around The World
Cucalu is a new photo app which encourages its users to interact with the outside world, before making it digital.
App Replaces Billboards With Digital Art
The metro is a popular place for advertising. People are just standing and waiting with their eyes focused on the opposite wall. The digital artists of The Heavy Projects think it's a great place for art too. They developed NO AD, an Augmented Reality app that replaces billboards with artworks.
