A Chat With Luc Harings (Ilovenoord)
In advance of Blogging the City, we’re publishing a bunch of short interviews with some of the speakers to get you in the mood. Last one: Luc Harings. On his blog ilovenoord he collects things and places that make you happy in the upcoming district Amsterdam Noord (North Amsterdam). In two years the online and offline community grew into the biggest bottom-up initiative of Amsterdam. The blog’s heart-shaped logo is seen everywhere in the North. Tomorrow, Luc will talk about the role of new media in making a shift from ‘top-down’ thinking to ‘bottom-up’ thinking when it comes to city-making.
A False Creek: Visualizing Sea Level Rise In Vancouver
Artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky just finished an installation in Vancouver dubbed ‘A False Creek’. Partly a geographical pun (the Cambie Bridge crosses over Vancouver’s False Creek), the piece is a visualisation of the projected changes in sea levels over the coming years.
A Chat With Antonia Märzhäuser (Freunde Von Freunden)
Tomorrow we're bringing together a selection of Europe's finest city, design and culture bloggers in Amsterdam at Blogging the City, a one-day conference where the 'blogosphere' discusses the urban future. Counting the days to the event, we're publishing a series of short interviews with some of the speakers. Today: Antonia Märzhäuser of Freunde von Freunden, a Berlin-based international interview magazine that offers a unique view into the lives of the creative class in the German capital and other big cities around the globe. In 2011, FvF launched its first book, Freunde von Freunden Berlin. A second book is in the making.
Kevin Cyr Transforms Shopping Cart Into A Tiny House
We've been talking a lot about tiny homes lately, but artist Kevin Cyr takes the concept to the extreme. For his latest crowd-funded project, Cyr found a ubiquitous shopping cart and inserted his pop-up camper design to create the Camper Kart. Don't be fooled by the compact exterior — Cyr has managed to pack storage, table and seating space, as well as lighting inside the space of a shopping cart.
A Chat With Wouter Boon (Amsterdam Ad Blog)
We're counting the days to Blogging the City with a series of short interviews with some of Thursday's speakers. Today we publish our chat with advertising strategist and writer Wouter Boon, founder of Amsterdam Ad Blog. Amsterdam Ad Blog is a blog about Amsterdam, its people, and the coolest places in the city that is also known as the world’s Advertising Capital.
A Knitted Playground In Japan
While some are still active knitting the city, we have focused on other projects and trends shaping the future, but Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam’s 'Woods of Net' project deserves special attention. Woods of Net, exhibited at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, is a structure entirely knitted by hand, designed for children to play with: children are invited to crow in, roll around and jump on the net.
A Chat With Mikael Colville-Andersen (Copenhagenize)
This Thursday we're bringing together Europe's leading city, design and culture bloggers at Blogging the City in Amsterdam. Ahead of the one-day festival, we publish short interviews with some of the speakers. Today: Mikael Colville-Andersen! Mobility expert Colville-Andersen is Denmark’s bicycle ambassador. His blog Copenhagenize highlights bicycle culture in Copenhagen, and placed the Danish capital on the map as a prominent green metropolis and one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities.
Magic Boxes: Disappearing Street Art
You know the old cliche "stop and smell the roses". How about "stop and look at the boxes"? If you can find them! American urban hacktivist Cayetano Ferrer is a magician of sorts, transforming ordinary urban objects — usually boxes and signs — into feats of magic. Using stickers printed with high-quality photographs, Ferrer creates an illusion of transparency.
A Chat With Régine Debatty (We-Make-Money-Not-Art)
Ahead of next Thursday's Blogging the City festival in Amsterdam, we publish short interviews with some of the speakers. Today: Régine Debatty, blogger, curator and critic based in London and Turin. Her provocatively named and internationally acclaimed blog we-make-money-not-art, which features art, science, culture and society in general, was one of the first in its field.
Temporary Street Interventions Spice Up Amsterdam River Bank
On one of Amsterdam’s most scenic streets, a local art gallery initiated a manifestation named ‘De Weesperzijde Leeft’ ('The Weesperzijde is alive') to involve the neighbourhood into the artscene. The gallery collaborated with a group of artists to create streetart in the most literal meaning of the word. Artists designed temporary zebra crossings, which reflect the identity of the street itself. Most of them refer to the influence the adjacent Amstel river had over the years.
A Chat With Martijn De Waal (The Mobile City)
Next week, on Thursday 4 October, we're bringing Europe's finest city, design and culture bloggers to Amsterdam for Blogging the City, a one-day festival where the 'blogosphere' discusses the urban future. Ahead of the event, we'll introduce you to some of our speakers through a series of short interviews. First one is Martijn de Waal, Amsterdam-based journalist and researcher and one of the founders of The Mobile City, a blog run by an independent research group that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and the implications for urban design.
Blogging The City: One Week To Go!
Ladies and gentlemen! Next week, on Thursday 4 October, we bring together Europe’s most trendsetting bloggers at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam for Blogging the City, a one-day conference where the ‘blogosphere’ discusses the urban future. What are the major trends in the contemporary city, and what is the role of bloggers in setting the agenda for urban development?
A Recipe Book For DIY Urban Farming
Antonio Scarponi likes to cook. But only if it does not take more than 20 minutes. Surely, he understands the value of a great recipe book that does not only have great recipes but also explain the process in clear terms. Now being an architect, information designer and a passionate activist for urban farming, he produces the obvious recipe book that was missing from the shelves -- a book for building your own micro-infrastructures for urban farming in easy steps using readily available IKEA components. The project, named ELIOOO, plans to develop an instruction book for building and configuring indoor (can be kept outside too) hydroponic systems for growing herbs, vegetables etc. Scarponi and his team also plans to build some of the systems described in the book and make them ready-to-order in case some urban farmers are in real hurry. The project is on display at Indiegogo and looking forward to crowdsource sufficient funds to begin developing the book and devices.
Art On Track Turns Chicago Metro Trains Into Mobile Art Galleries
Created in 2008 by students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art on Track is basically a mobile art gallery that allows local artists to transform an entire train car on Chicago’s busy subway system.
Pop-Up Pianos: Play Me, I’m Yours
Starting in Birmingham, UK back in 2008, then spreading to São Paulo, Sydney, and a myriad of cool cities around the world, funky street pianos have been popping up in conspicuous public spaces, free for anyone to play or spectate. These pianos come from UK artist Luke Jerram‘s ongoing installation ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’. The […]
