Activating Urban Space With A Button
Launched a few weeks ago, Bt.tn is a neatly designed button that can be connected to the Internet in order to trigger any specific action.
How To Move An Entire City
Have you ever thought about moving a complete city of 23,000 inhabitants? It's probably not on your mind, but the people in the Swedish city of Kiruna can't think about anything else.
Rotterdam Stadium Becomes Campsite For The World Cup
A little less spectacular than this stadium in Berlin that was turned into a giant living room for the FIFA World Cup, but a neat idea nonetheless: last Friday car brand Opel transformed the pitch of one of Holland's biggest stadiums into an orange campsite.
Berlin Stadium Turns Into The World’s Biggest Living Room
The 2014 FIFA World Cup (that started yesterday for those who missed it) inspired a German event agency to turn the stadium of football team Union Berlin into a giant living room for people to watch the games together.
Miniature Kiosks Pop Up In German Cities
"It's the little things in life that make us happy." That's the slogan behind Coca-Cola's recently launched campaign to promote Coca-Cola Mini. The love for the little things in life was playfully translated into a series of mini kiosks with tiny vending machines inside of them, that were installed on the streets of five major cities in Germany.
Shopping Center Offers Life In The Fast (Or Slow) Lane
For anyone who knows the frustration of getting stuck walking behind leisurely strollers or being jostled by speed demons in a rush, the Meadowhall center in Sheffield, UK has implemented a simple but clever solution.
These Cities Are Made For Watchin’
Watch Dogs, by Ubisoft, has finally come out. In this game, you play an urban hacker in Chicago, who can hack into the operating system of the city and turn the very built environment into a weapon. We have talked about the game earlier in the context of how data-driven urban infrastructures create new possibilities of looking at the city and acting in it -- for governments, citizens and hackers.
Urban By Nature — An Introduction To IABR 2014
On Wednesday 28 May, the sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) was officially opened. The central theme of this year's IABR is 'Urban by Nature', with various venues across Rotterdam featuring appealing exhibitions and events. As an official media partner we will report the most interesting projects of the IABR in the coming three months.
Pop-Up Library For Indie Zines Hits The Road
Running a magazine shop with independent publications may be profitable in New York or London, but in the rest of the world the market for alternative zines is quite small. Zines of the Zone overcomes this problem by popping up at places where temporary audiences for alternative zines can be found.
Pop-Up City Live — Wednesday 28 May In Brussels!
We are delighted to announce that on Wednesday the 28th of May Pop-Up City will be hosting its second live event! Come and join us in Beursschouwburg, Brussels, where you can expect an evening of innovative, creative and diverse ideas about urban life and city-making.
How Mobile Kiosks And Craft Beers Can Drive Urban Transformation
On 26th May, artist and urban curator Sabrina Lindemann will be leading a Stadsklas session in Binckhorst in The Hague, a former industrial site that's undergoing a process of transformation. Lindemann's project agency OpTrek aims to play a substantial role in the urban revitalization process by opening up the area through a number of varied and creative interventions, varying from a kiosk strategy to the launch of a local Binckhorst beer brand.
Wearables For A Modern Urban Lifestyle
Personal space can be a rare thing in overpopulated contemporary cities. Metro systems in cities like London, Tokyo and Hong Kong can be so overcrowded that you're forced to share that space with strangers. That's why Hong Kong-based artist Kathleen McDermott created a dress that automatically expands when someone gets too close.
How Indie Architects Revitalize An Area From The Inside Out
The most effective way to bring positive change to an area is through personal understanding of problems as well as involvement and investment in solutions, but how does one go about accomplishing this? Architecture firm ZUS and urban strategist team Stipo have been responsible for extensive bottom-up spatial planning projects in Rotterdam. Together, they will utilize the city of Rotterdam as their classroom to explore these concepts in the fifth installment of Stadsklas on May 22nd.
Turtle Taxi: Push The Button To Slow Down Your Ride
The Turtle Taxi is a new kind of taxi service that has recently been launched in Yokohama. The cabs bring passengers from A to B like any other taxi service, but they don't necessarily do it as quickly as possible.
Turning Street-Side Trash Into Nomadic Homes
The overload of dumped waste on the streets of Oakland has inspired Gregory Kloehn to create a series of tiny mobile houses. Created from all sorts of trash, the artist's one-of-a-kind accommodations are meant to give the city's homeless a modest accommodation. With the Homeless Homes Project, Kloehn wants to prove that building an own house is possible without money and with a lot of creativity.
