What: Book Release ‘Highwaying’ editor Guy Lafranchi, authors Lukas Ingold & Fabio Tammaro Where: Cinématte, Bern When: November 11 2010 Who: RIEA.ch Research Institute for Experimental Architecture & Springer ‘Highwaying’ is a publication by professor Guy Lafranchi and designers Lukas Ingold and Fabio Tammaro of the experimental design studio HighwaING’, at the Berne University of [...]

Interview by Marcia Caines version pdf ‘Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend’ is a comprehensive handbook by Aida Esteban Millat, Sascha Haslemayer and Jakob H Rasmussen that illustrates through a selection of handpicked case studies how innovation in services and mobility can contribute to improving the economical, environmental and social values of our cities [...]

image of Villa 31 from Villa 31 – Retiro, Buenos Aires In this article The Permanent Slum, Jordana Timerman, a political aide in the Argentine government’s Secretariat of Human Rights and a researcher at Centro de Estudios Perspectiva Sur of Generación Política Sur, reports on how an artist from Buenos Aires has engaged in a [...]

image from Africa the good news website In this conversation Stephen Becker and Robert Holmes of mammoth talk to Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and editor of the book The Infrastructural City about how the infrastructural city and “network culture” are [...]

screenshot from the Foreign Policy website We live in an urban age, for the first time in history the human species has become prevalently urban. The general assumption – backed by figures – is that the number of people set to live in cities will continue to grow, the acceleration unstoppable. In this article, Urban [...]