TRACK: A contemporary city conversation
Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam VaradinisTRACK is a unique art experience in the public and semi public space of the city of Ghent. It offers surprising, enriching, and unexpected encounters with the city, its history, and its inhabitants and incites to reflect upon urban realities and the contemporary human condition in a broader ...
Plant tags for public interpretation
Reposted from: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Street-Art/plant-style-tags-for-sidewalk-fixtures Carmichael Collective is a company based in Minneapolis, Mn that creates projects for the sake of creativity, simple objective right? Using the same idea of plant tags, used to identify and educate about a particular specimen, but using them on everyday sidewalk fixtures we are all familiar with. Apparently from the information ...
Roach Memorials: Mini monuments to our fallen, ubiquitous urban cohabitators
Reposted from: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/a-roach-remembered-bug-memorials You know those people who get really mad if you step and/or kill a bug? Well, they will love the work of Minneapolis’ Carmichael Collective, who created this mini-street installation, A Roach Remembered, with the tagline: “This is a tribute to a cockroach that lived its life to the fullest. 2012 — ...
Jim Ricks’ Bouncy Dolmen
At first it’s a platform for laughter, play and utterances of the word “brilliant!”, but Jim Ricks’ Bouncy Dolmen project also points towards a perhaps underutilized tool in the creative mediation of heritage – play and humor. If only giving a whimsical full-body tactile engagement with a somewhat simplified formal representation of the iconic dolmen ...
HEYHEYHEY’s portable postcard machine brings you patiently crafted nostalgia whenever, wherever
A wonderfully fine example of a portable nostalgia machine. Dutch design masters HEYHEYHEY have done it again, inventing amazing things to help us encounter and enjoy the world around us. Check out this and other of their wonderfully inspiring projects here: http://www.heyheyhey.nl/ —— Early 2012, HEYHEYHEY had some time to spare and they felt the need ...
Out of Sth – Changing perceptions of city space
OUT OF STH vol.3is yet another stage of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning projects: External Artists.Out of Sth andOUT OF STH presents (2008, 2010), carried out in BWA Wroclaw and city space. This time the project includes exhibitions, realizations and activities concentrating on the issue of the City in its social and political dimension, City as a source of ...
Pamuk’s ‘Museum of Innocence’ opens in Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk, center, whose novel “The Museum of Innocence” led to the museum, which opened on Saturday in Istanbul. Photo: Jodi Hilton for The New York Times. More Photos » By J. MICHAEL KENNEDY Published: April 29, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/orhan-pamuk-opens-museum-based-on-his-novel-in-istanbul.html ISTANBUL — The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 ...
Hamburg’s Trashcam Project
Hamburg´s garbagemen create portraits of their city in the Trashcam Project – with their garbage containers. Standard 1.100 litre containers are transformed to giant pinhole cameras. With these cameras the binmen take pictures of their favourite places to show the beauty and the changes of the city they keep clean every day. The Trashcam Project ...
Smellscapes of Cape Town
The work of Sissel Tolaas on the smellscapes of Cape Town both may inspire us in thinking about Cape Town, but they are certainly an important point of reference for our upcoming project on the smellscapes of Istanbul this summer. Like this: Tags: smellscapes Article source: http://urbanheritages.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/smellscapes-of-cape-town/
How to: Make Your Own Scratch-And-Sniff Map
This post explains how to make a scratch-and-sniff map, from start to finish.You may question what possible relevance this information has for you. I would reply that I found myself agreeing to make not just one, but two scratch-and-sniff maps of New York City almost entirely by accident earlier this year. And even if you are more sensible than ...