Marcia Caines JARDIN MANDALA, Gilles Clément, environmental art, PAV 2010, photo Mattia Boero The Earth’s carrying capacity is finite, which means that in order to avoid an ecological overshoot society needs to create new social, economical and political models. Our current models are limited because they require the consumption of ever more resources to grow, [...]

The Astoria Scum River Bridge created by urban artists Jason Eppink and Posterchild is an exemplary unauthorized city intervention. The problem, Astoria Scum River, was a pool of filthy stagnant water, caused by a leaky pipe, which had been submerging a busy city pavement for over twenty years causing a hazard to pedestrians. Jason Eppink [...]

MONU, is a bi-annual magazine on urbanism from Rotterdam that connects artists, writers and designers on topics of urban culture, development and politics – probably one of the most forward-thinking contemporary magazines on urban issues and the future of cities about. The next and 13th issue of MONU will be released in the sumer of [...]

Street With A View, 2008, image taken from CCCS, Florence, Courtesy Ben Kinsley & Robin Hewlett ©Google, Inc. Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World If you visit the Street View section of Google Maps and type in “Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh” you’re in for a big surprise, because who would have guessed that this one-way [...]

Playlist, an exhibition on the relation between videogames, music and art kicks off this afternoon at LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creaciòn Industrial in Asturias, Spain. The exhibition will run through to May 17 2009. Images from PLAYLIST courtesy LABoral Playlist traces a paths through the works of those creators that, during the 90s, worked [...]