Frame form the film “HOME” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. 2009 Food is indisputably one of the biggest challenges facing cities in 21st century that is seldom discussed. As cities grow at an unprecedented rate, food prices hit the roof and demand outweighs supply. So what can cities do to reintegrate food systems into the urban context? [...]

On July 4 2009 Cluster posted a link to a photo story commissioned by the The New York Times documenting the US real estate collapse ‘Ruins of the Second Gilded Age’, a few days later we received an e-mail from Simon Owens of bloggasm explaining that the photo essay had been removed and why. The [...]

Candy Chang is an urban planner, artist and graphic designer based in Helsinki, Finland where she is a design specialist for Nokia. Before moving to Finland Candy lived in New York City (2001 -2009) where she carried out diverse collaborative community-based projects aimed at making information sharing more accessible and engaging through design and the [...]

Ruins of the Gilded Age is a photostory by photographer Edgar Martins, text by Charles Wilson on the real estate bust in the US. Commisioned by the The New York Times magazine last autumn. Edgar Martins travelled from Giorgia to California capturing foreclosed construction projects that begun during the speculative boom years. Incredible images at [...]

Take a run down, semi-derelict, working class periphery neighbourhood on the Sardinian coast and transform it into a destination with no new designs and very little infrastructure. How? Sant’Elia Resort is an initiative, an imaginary place, and a project proposal by architects Cristiano Pistis and Gricelys Rosario for Cagliari’s farthest stretching periphery: Sant’Elia. In 2006 [...]