How Online Media Become City-Making Tools
Together with The Hague architecture institute Stroom we’re organizing the Stadsklas, a spring school that teaches innovative and curious individuals interested in cities and design the ins and outs of DIY urbanism. The series will span six days of learning in May, with each day set in a different location. Trend-setting city-makers will take the participants on a […]
Mellowcabs Shows That Taxis Can Be Free
In an age of traffic congestion, carbon emissions and poor public transport integration with high costs, cities around the world are being forced to rethink traditional means of transport. In response to this, Mellowcabs have emerged in South Africa, electric vehicles with advertisements on them that provide free 'micro transport' for commuters within a three-kilometer radius.
Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms Of Japan
Some time ago I found a ten-years old book at some flea market called Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan. I really wanted to have it as the book uncovers and extensively documents one of Japan's most remarkable urban phenomena: love hotels. Created by photographer Misty Keasler, Love Hotels shows you a glimpse of those places that you (probably) never enter, let alone know of.
FlightCar Wants To Solve The Empty Car Problem
Most airports are surrounded by endless parking lots loaded with cars of travelers that are not being used. At the same time, many people who arrive at the airport immediately need some form of transport. So why not rent these temporarily empty cars to the people who need them?
Neighborhood Box Shop Boosts Local Economy In Rotterdam
How to create neighborhood involvement and participation, how to keep it? And how can this local involvement and participation eventually contribute to the quality of a city? During the first Stadsklas course on Thursday May 8th, artist Jeanne van Heeswijk will tell you all about it in Rotterdam, where she founded the Freehouse foundation, an initiative to boost cultural consciousness and economic capacity.
App Helps You Find Calm Spaces In The City
Stereopublic is an art project in the form of a website and an app, that crowdsources information about calm spaces in cities around the world.
Artist Orders Drone Strike on Canvas
From Amazon’s promise for drone deliveries to pocket drones on Kickstarter, drones are becoming more relevant and ubiquitous to contemporary society beyond military usage. The Hole, a contemporary art gallery in New York City featured a new use of drone technology by artist KATSU: a series of abstract paintings done by drones.
Playing Giant Jenga With Shipping Containers
Hong Kong-based OVA Studio has designed a unique hotel concept that can grow and shrink in size dependent on the demand for the rooms. The result is The Hive Inn, a hotel made out of shipping containers stacked in a modular fashion, much like the game Jenga, but on a giant scale.
iPhone App Provides Roadside Assistance For Cyclists
A simple flat tire on your bicycle can easily turn into an entire afternoon of walking your bike to a repair shop and having to come back for it on foot. Damn, A Flat Tire offers a way to circumvent this inconvenience by providing a mobile bike service in Amsterdam that brings the repairs to the bike, rather than the other way around, for no extra charge.
German DIY Store Embraces DIY Urbanism
DIY chain Hornbach’s most recent marketing campaign has adopted the idea of DIY urbanism, a way of fixing up your street or neighborhood in the bid to make it a more pleasant place to live.
New York Subway Drivers: An Exploration In Portraiture
Any contemporary urbanite knows the frustration of waiting for a late subway, or sprinting downstairs to catch the doors before they close, but have you ever considered the people who keep track of it all? Photographer Janus van den Eijnden pays homage to those that keep the system running as smoothly and efficiently as possible in his photo series entitled 'New York Subway Drivers'.
An Elevator For Cyclists In Trondheim
Trondheim, that calls itself the Bike Capital of Norway, has re-opened its famous CycloCable. This innovative and clever piece of infrastructure is a self-service bicycle lift for hilly roads comparable to a ski lift.
Represent Your Neighborhood With These Stylish Scarfs
Amsterdam-based We Are Dimension have designed a great and stylish way to represent your neighborhood and to show your pride through the wearing of their district scarves.
Turning Public Space Into A Nightclub
Dutch street furniture and playground design company Yalp created the Fono, the world's first outdoor DJ booth. The grey concrete-like booth can be placed anywhere in the urban realm and can be easily used by anyone who wants to show off his or her mixing skills in public.
Vending Machines For Shrinking Communities
Residents of the picture post card village of Clifton, Derbyshire, have welcomed a new addition to their community: a giant vending machine, or 'electronic shop', as designer Peter Fox prefers to call it.
