An essential archipelago of opportunity
Nicholas de Monchaux’s WPA 2.0 entry, Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial data to map the thousands of abandoned city-owned lots scattered across North American cities. But this is more than just a data viz project: de Monchaux conceives of these spaces as “an essential archipelago of opportunity” for making cities more livable, functional, and sustainable.
Nicholas Demonchaux
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, urbanist, writer, and Assistant Professor of Architecture & Urban…
Cambridge Talks
Posted 14 May 2012 | 4:02 pm
Dan Clowes
Posted 12 April 2012 | 6:22 pm
SFMOMA
Posted 28 March 2012 | 5:22 am
Sci-Arc Lecture
Posted 28 March 2012 | 5:19 am
Kalil
Posted 26 February 2012 | 11:19 pm
Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
Adam Greenfield: “To me the Speedbird symbolizes many things: the lost glamour of travel, the high Modernist…
Nurriture [Flickr]
Posted 22 May 2012 | 8:07 pm
Bloated pupal modest proposal [Flickr]
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
How do you say "Müller-Brockmann" in Italian? [Flickr]
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
The epic of Sofamesh [Flickr]
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
Dystopia Acres USA, or: "I Am Curious (Orange)" [Flickr]
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:02 pm
The Wooster Collective
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral…
Wooster in Sheboygan
Posted 11 May 2012 | 9:48 pm
New Work from JORGE RODRÍGUEZ-GERADA
Posted 10 May 2012 | 4:08 pm
New Work From Specter
Posted 10 May 2012 | 3:46 pm
One Not To Miss: Prune’s Holy River
Posted 10 May 2012 | 3:40 pm
Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth an Experience by Kenji Williams
Posted 8 May 2012 | 8:13 pm
Serendipity, ubicomp, and “over-coded smart cities”: an interview with Mark Shepard, creator of Serendipitor
Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose post-disciplinary practice addresses new social…
Serendipity with an edge: A chat with Benrik about Situationist App
Situationist is an iPhone app that injects surprise and serendipity into everyday life. The app uses geolocation…
The Pop-Up City
The Pop-Up City is an online magazine by Amsterdam-based design agency Golfstromen which presents new ideas,…
Design In Helsinki — Turn Table: An Urban Farm And Restaurant In The Middle Of The City
Posted 22 May 2012 | 2:22 pm
Meet Vancouver’s V-Pole
Posted 22 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
Chicago’s Elevated Park Ready To Bloom
Posted 22 May 2012 | 9:28 am
Design In Helsinki — Have Your Own Pop-Up Restaurant On Restaurant Day
Posted 21 May 2012 | 4:12 pm
Forget Tents: It’s Pop-Up Lodging!
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
Pasta&Vinegar
This is a blog by Nicolas Nova. I study people’s practices as well as usage of technologies and turn them…
Monster sticky note on cell-phone screen
Posted 21 May 2012 | 1:49 pm
http://betaknowledge.tumblr.com/ as a compilation of weak signals about the future
Posted 16 May 2012 | 8:15 pm
Virilio on “statistical image” and perception #newaesthetic
Posted 14 May 2012 | 8:34 pm
Z/Z/Z/ describing the dimension of cultural artifacts that are difficult to explain using natural language
Posted 12 May 2012 | 3:24 pm
Robot Mori: a curious assemblage from the Uncanny Valley
Posted 4 May 2012 | 2:19 pm
Serial Consign
Serial Consign is an online writing project dedicated to cataloguing provocative examples of information…
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Pruned
Alexander Trevi on landscape architecture and related fields.…
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a drone
Posted 23 May 2012 | 4:58 am
72 Hour Urban Action in Stuttgart (and Imagining Kowloon Skyfavelas)
Posted 21 May 2012 | 8:54 am
Kerb 20
Posted 8 April 2012 | 8:39 pm
Harvesting at the Biogas Farm
Posted 28 March 2012 | 6:15 am
A New Anti-Tsunami Archipelago for Japan
Posted 26 March 2012 | 2:58 pm
John Geraci
John Geraci has “spent the past seven years making cities better with web and mobile technologies.”…
Note To TED, Local Projects and DIYcity: Nobody Owns the Web (Not Even You)
Posted 6 March 2012 | 9:12 pm
My TEDxBigApple Talk [Video]
Posted 2 March 2012 | 9:15 pm
What Is Happening at johngeraci.com?
Posted 20 February 2012 | 5:16 pm
Read This Article To Understand What 2012 Is Going To Be About
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Drones: Coming Soon To The Skies Near You
Posted 14 December 2011 | 3:31 pm
Subtlemob creator Duncan Speakman on “framing everyday realities”
Duncan Speakman’s Subtlemob project, “As if it were the last time,” will be taking place…
Another City for Another Life: the unforeseen games of the city of the future
ARGs, pervasive games, and location-based social games echo and reiterate a range of earlier experiments in ambient and locative art. Graffiti, sticker art, mail art, and other kinds of analog methods for creating distributed narratives paved the way for the kinds of practices that are today exploding in number and purpose thanks to ubiquitous computing and the real-time web. Lettrism and Situationism redefined urban space as a canvas for experimentation, play, and collaborative production.
Try to remain invisible: Subtlemob
Duncan Speakman’s As if it were for the last time is a soundwalk and street performance wherein audiences are “invited to download an MP3 and turn up at a secret location to listen to the track at a specified time.”
Version 2010 Chicago: Sustainable tactics and strategies for communities, resources, and networks
Chicago’s Version 2010 (April 22 to May 2, 2010) is “now seeking proposals and presentations about tactics and strategies that help sustain our communities, find better uses of our resources, and maintain and expand our networks.”
Postopolis LA
Dan Hill at City of Sound recently announced the next iteration of Postopolis, which will run this Spring in…
Rephotographing Atget
Christopher Rauschenberg writes:
Eugene Atget documented Paris from 1888 until his death in 1927. Like many…
The Most Ridiculous City in the World
Geoff at bldgblog articulates what makes living in Los Angeles so confounding, liberating and existentially…
Seven City Symphonies (1921-1931)
One of the projects I’m working on involves crowdsourcing video clips to construct a database for a “recombinant…
Liberty City Pics and GTA IV Review Roundup
Check out this great photoset by Flickr user and virtual flâneur Matthew Johnston comparing locations…
Vertical Farms for NYC
New York magazine asked four architects to dream up proposals for a lot on Canal Street and Work AC came up with…
Ground-Up City
Ground-up City. Play as a Design Tool maps the continuing history of an urban design strategy for play in the…
BLDGBLOG
Architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures by Geoff Manaugh.…
Vitamin C and Aloe
Posted 21 May 2012 | 8:14 pm
Under Angeles
Posted 21 May 2012 | 3:26 am
Astrobiology and Drowned Nations
Posted 18 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
SubBrit
Posted 18 May 2012 | 3:12 pm
Perhaps it is not a city
Posted 18 May 2012 | 2:13 pm
Los Angeles 2106
As the second phase of The City of the Future challenge, IBM and The History Channel, in partnership with the…
Projection Bombing
Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the…