New York / Young Architects Program. Ecocity World Summit. INTERROGATING PUBLIC SPACE.
Yes, That’s a nice Urban Data Visualization. So what? Report of City_Play_Data – Expert Meeting on Digital Media and ‘Ownership’ in the City As you may have noticed, over here at the Mobile City we have recently shifted the focus of our program somewhat.
Rather than addressing the role of digital media in cities in general, we decided to focus on a number of issues that we feel are particularly urgent in urban design. One of them we have labeled ‘ownership’. For us ‘ownership’ is about bringing about a sense of engagement with urban life and providing citizens with opportunities to (collaboratively) act. How can we design or employ digital media in such a way that they may contribute to such a sense of ‘ownership’? We are very happy to address this question in a partnership with Virtueel Platform who has asked us to conduct a study on this issue (to be published at some point later this year). Design Approaches Public Space For Coleman and Goldkrand, Public space is (in my own words) about creating places of contact or zones of friction. Education. Local Projects. The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients.
Local Projects. Street Festivals and Programs. Landscape Design Partnership - Garden and Landscape Architure: Creating a living space. Furniture. Landscape Architecture « Jacques Abelman, Celine Baumann (celinebaumann.tumblr.com), YukaYoshida The Wildpoints strategy creates a new form of urban green by actively seeking out new places for nature to colonize the city.
The end result of found nature and design interventions adds up to an urban biodiversity network. Discovering Wildpoints The small presence of uninvited nature in the city – where wild grasses and plants come up through the cracks, providing food and shelter for insects, birds, and other small urban animals, are almost never created intentionally. They spring up at construction sites in disturbed soil, in quiet alleys where wind-borne seeds settle and thrive between bricks, or under bridges where mosses and ferns find the humidity and darkness they need.
These sites are reservoirs of genetic diversity as well as habitats for uncounted species. What is biodiversity in the city? Biodiversity can have many interpretations. 4 New Biotopes for Urban Sites Results and Benefits. Earprint Productions. Meter Obsession by Jason Reinier I have been obsessed with meters, water and gas, for many years.
I first noticed meters when I was at Colorado College. When I was a freshman taking an electronic music course, we created “musique concrete” pieces from tape recordings. We went out into the world with just our ears and went on walks, listening to different sounds. My First Encounter On one very special walk with my professor, Steven Scott, we stopped and listened to a gas meter. The Original Earprint.