April 2012
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March 2012
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Amazing project by Karolina Sobecka, It’s You is an interactive storefront-window projection that explores the mechanisms of public behaviors and the line between the real and constructed social actions.
The installation, while being a literal display, simultaneously takes part in the pedestrian’s reality, the characters responding to the social space they help to create. At the same time it...
February 2012
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“Genève, ville vivante”
A dynamic cartography of the digital traces created by our mobile phones.
Crowd funded urbanism, a major trend to come ?
I Make Rotterdam is a crowd funding initiative launched by the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and the architecture firm ZUS. The objective is to raise money for a pedestrian bridge connecting the city’s Central Station with one of the prime biennal locations.
The main idea of crowd-funding urbanism is making projects possible that are not interesting for the government...
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January 2012
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d’où venez-vous ? où allez-vous ? qui êtes-vous? dans le métro parisien: du sens de la ville au sens de la vie, par les Bricoleurs.
December 2011
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En cet empire, l’art de la cartographie fut poussé à une telle perfection que la...
– Suarez Miranda, Viajes de Varones Prudenes, liv. IV, chap. XLV, Lérida, 1658 (livre imaginé par Borges)
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Which nations are really responsible for climate... →
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What defines the identity of Copenhagen ? What makes the urbanity of this city ? What are the danish reference landscapes ? This pretty short movie by Matthew Donaldson featuring electro pop songstress Nanna Øland Fabricius questions also these issues...
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November 2011
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Un article intéressant sur l'impact du numérique... →
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La communication de masse a déjà changé la démocratie depuis longtemps. Mais...
– Manuel Castells via OWNI
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October 2011
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Notre enquête se propose de montrer comment les formes de vie nouvelle et les...
– Walter Benjamin in Paris, capitale du XIXème siècle
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Since its first appearance in the second half of the 1990s under the impetus of...
– Alan Kirby in Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture
New-York: the pegleg
“New York: The Pegleg,” by Timothy Speed Levitch is the latest book from LOG607, an Italian publisher that has already produced a series of playful guides to Italian cities combining books with games users play through text messaging.
The app is an entertaining addition to the Manhattan walking tour and an example of an increasingly popular concept in the technology world called...
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Der Prinzessin Garten
The Princessin Garten is located in Kreuzberg, Berlin on a square rent by the city to Nomadisch Grün, a non profit organisation run since 2009 by Robert Shaw, a filmmaker, and Marco Clausen, a bar owner and photographer.
The project’s objective is not only to produce and sell locallly produced food but also to provide the community with a place to have a cofee in the green, learn ...
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September 2011
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