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Project
Shrinking Cities
Cities are shrinking all over the world!
Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate…
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Project:
MichèleTypogeography
Strategy for site-specific typography
Typogeography connects radical ideas about typography with Jane Jacobs' radical ideas about urbanism.
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BarbaraMushroom Design
A miscellaneous products collection
How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more,…
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DidoAn interview with Kareem Lotfy
Cairo, the tale of love and hate.
Over a big plate of sushi, some green tea and lots of wasabi, we discussed Kareem's experience of Amsterdam, living in Cairo and…
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Rising in the East
Rising in the East: Contemporary Asian New Towns examines not only the urban designs, the architectural and urban character of these…
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AlbertoAn interview with Tunc Topcuoglu
Connecting high and low culture through kebab.
Tunc Topcuoglu on the importance of roots, and being an outsider. "No longer trapped in a specific identity, you are forced to…
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1995
Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
How do homes happen? Are they planned, as we have intuitively tended to believe, or is the process a more messy one? Drawing on…
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Book: 1978
Le Corbusier
Towards a new architecture
A canonical collection of essays written by Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), advocating for and exploring the concept of…
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Love and hate, holiness and cruelty
Diana Marrone talks about Naples
Diana Marrone is of the curators in the Amsterdam Biennale and a guide for Naples (Italy) on the Mediamatic Travel website . She…
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Organisation:Toronto
Evergreen Brick Works
Community + City + Nature
A Canadian charity, Evergreen is raising $55 million to transform Toronto's Don Valley Brick Works into an international showcase…
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Organisation:Toronto
Toronto Public Spaces Committee
Defending public space from private forces
The Toronto Public Space Committee is a grassroots non-profit organisation run completely by volunteers.
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37 Pavilions
First ‘user generated’ biennale
Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We…
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Organisation:Toronto
Evergreen
Canadians + Community + Cities + Nature
Evergreen is a not-for-profit organization that makes cities more livable. By deepening the connection between people and nature,…
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Organisation:Berlin
HOME GAME 2011
Theatre, Workshops, Symposium, Festival
From March 29th to April 3rd 2011, the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Schauspiel Cologne will hold an event that bundles…
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Organisation:Toronto
OpenCity Projects
Urban design
Based in Toronto, we do workshops, exhibitions, research and consulting about design, urbanism and society. As part of our open…
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Organisation:Toronto
Centre for City Ecology
Reading cities
The mission of Centre for City Ecology is to cultivate a broad understanding of how cities – their economies, neighbourhoods,…
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MauriceInfect the Soft
What is really wrong with euclidic geometry? Which objections can really be lodged against integers, straight lines and orthogonal…
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Project:
Properties Font
Radical font for Mediamatic Travel's visual identity!
Properties font is the visual identity of Mediamatic Travel. A radical font for a radical project!
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Organisation:Toronto
Green 13
Green 13 is a new, grassroots community environmental group operating in Ward 13 in Toronto.
