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Date: August 9 2009, Location Beiteddine Festival, Bierut, Lebanon.
“images of the ‘new middle east’ ” is a commission by international artist and composer Guy Manoukian for an upcoming concert in Beiteddine, Lebanon. Beiteddine Festival is one of the oldest and finest festivals in the Middle East and is held in a 200-year-old palace in [...]

In a seven minute talk at the Reboot Britain conference on July 6 2009 in London, Alexander Rose a battlefront campaigner and founder of the STOP Campaign - a youth movement committed to resolving the problem of youth violence in the UK - explains how instrumental digital platforms are in engaging young people in [...]

This has been around a bit, but if you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty amazing as an example of the ingenuity of folks in the emerging megacities, where poverty and extreme density combine to generate all sorts of new possibilities.

via World Changing

Given the current day state of the suburbs Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com have co-produced the first design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.
“In a future where limited natural resources will force us to find better solutions for density and efficiency, what will become of the cul-de-sacs, cookie-cutter tract houses and generic strip malls that have [...]

Image Liminal Institute, Amsterdam
Recreating The Berlin Wall is a project by performance artist and co-founder of the Liminal Institute, an international performance unit in Amsterdam, Martin Butler.
The artist aims to orchestrate a ‘Flash mob’, organized through the social networking sites ‘Facebook’, ‘Myspace’ and ‘Twitter’, that will recreate the Berlin wall with the physical presence of [...]