Location-Based Chatting With Ding Dong
Ding Dong is a new location-based app that enables its users to set up private communication based on their current location.
Selfridges Opens Drive-Thru For Online Purchases
We mainly know drive-thrus from fast food restaurants, but in London shoppers can now pick up their purchases while sitting in their car as department store Selfridges offers the first drive-thru service for luxury products. Through the store's the so-called click and collect service, customers can buy the items of their choice online and select a day to pick them up.
We Made It!
Today, the Pop-Up City book achieved 100% funding on Kickstarter! Before we open up a bottle of champagne to celebrate (don't worry, we'll save you some), we need to make sure to thank the most important part of this campaign: YOU! We're overwhelmed by the response to our Kickstarter campaign. Not only have we raised enough funds to ensure that the book gets published, we managed to do it in only 18 days! That's pretty cool, folks.
Rowan Moore: ‘Eternity Is Overrated’
British journalist Rowan Moore is an architecture critic who in his book Why We Build explores the relationship between power, time, architecture, buildings, and users of public space. Being one of the UK’s most prominent authors in the field of architecture, his book has received acclaim due to his entertaining way of writing and critical analyses of global architecture.
The First Starbucks On A Train
In order to offer Swiss train travelers some extra service (and, of course, sell coffee), the Swiss railway company SBB has teamed up with Starbucks to create the first Starbucks café on a train. The Starbucks Coffee House on rails was first operational during a train trip from Geneva to St. Gallen in Switzerland.
MakeSpace — The Next Generation Urban Storage
New York-based urban storage start-up MakeSpace offers their service to urbanites who are in need of a more convenient use of the spare square meters in their downtown apartment. MakeSpace is not just another storage unit — no, this is a more sophisticated way of temporarily getting rid of your stuff.
Pop It Like It’s Hot!
Time for an update! When we posted our last update the Pop-Up City book campaign had just reached the 25% mark, and look where we are now! We really couldn't have dreamed that we would be at 80% after such a short period of time. It makes us intensely happy to see that so many people are helping us to convince our publisher to bring the book into print. On behalf of all the editors, we'd like to extend a very sincere THANK YOU! You keep us going!
A Vertical Campsite For The Homeless
Homelessness is a growing problem across Europe and finding new and effective ways to combat social exclusion and help the homeless is becoming increasingly difficult. Malka Architecture, France, have found a way to attract much needed attention towards the growing problem of homelessness whilst at the same time providing shelter for those who need it.
Google Analytics For Physical Environments
If you run a blog or a website, tools like Google Analytics generate loads of useful data that tells you things like where your visitors come from and how they use your website. How interesting would it be to translate that idea to an offline environment? That's exactly what Swedish-born, Amsterdam/Berlin-based artist Jonas Lund did.
Women-Only Nap Bar Opens Doors In Tokyo
Everything seems to be possible in Tokyo, especially when it involves taking a nap. The most peculiar initiatives have been set up in the Japanese capital to help the Tokyoites to get some rest. We all know the capsule hotels that offer ultra-tiny sleeping cabins, but this is the first time we see a nap bar. Located in Tokyo's Chiyoda-ku neighborhood, the recently opened Nap Cafe Corne is a women-only bar where busy women can rent a place to take a power nap.
The End Of The Line
End stops of public transport lines are strange places. Every urbanite knows their names, but scarcely anyone has ever been there. Fascinated by this phenomenon, German film maker and video journalist Janosch Delcker makes short documentaries in which he explores the end stations of subway lines in big cities.
A Big ‘THANK YOU!’ To Our First Backers!
We're pretty overwhelmed here by the amazing support we've received in the first days of the Pop-Up City book crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter. We're very happy and grateful to see that so many people want us to publish the book! It was a real treat to see the first 12 hours get us past $1,000 with ease — and then hitting 15% of our funding goal by the end of first day. Now, right at the moment that we send out this first update, we have reached over 25% of our final goal of $10,000. More than 50 wonderful people have helped us to get to this point.
The World’s First Dentist On Wheels
Pop-up has become mature in the past few years. New types of pop-up creativity emerge that or not initiated by artists, designers or architects, but by other organizations that usually are not the first ones to adopt new trends. Studio Dental, for instance, has concrete plans for the first dentist clinic on wheels.
Suzanne Lacy: Art In The Public
As a child she would organize imaginative games that kept herself and the children in the neighborhood busy for days. Later in life, as an adult, she continues to re-invent arenas of social interaction while she repeatedly gives birth to a hybrid between art and community-organizing. By creating participatory art and politically engaging with it Suzanne Lacy has become an internationally acclaimed and celebrated artist, according to Creative Time perhaps even the most important socially-engaged artist working today.
Take A Chair Anywhere
Young Spanish designer Jorge Penadés recently presented a foldable chair that can be worn like a backpack.
