The collaboration that turned a city square into a giant interactive performance and forum for changing public spaces. 

Aiming to encourage engagement with the arts, cultural space and public realm, YourSpace a recent temporary transformation of Exhibition Square in York was the exciting culmination of a collaboration between architects of the award-winning architectural studio DSDHA [...]

British musician Davide Byrne gives his vision of a perfect city, a combination of size; density; sensibility and attitude; security; chaos and danger; human scale; parking; boulevards; mixed use and public spaces.
Here’s an excerpt of the his article “A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City” published on the Wall Street Journal september 11 2009
“There’s [...]

An evalution of the largest art project in public space in the Netherlands.
Nai Publishers releases ‘Art as Urban Strategy’ beyond Leidshe Rijn, editors Tom van Gestel, Henriëtte Heezen, Nathalie Zonnenberg.
The Beyond programme of art is utterly unique in both concept and scale. Launched in 1997 in Leidsche Rijn, the largest new-style housing estate in 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 [...]

Posted by Cluster, written by Nadia Somekh and Carlos Leite

By comparing São Paulo’s realities with international examples of urban regeneration, Nadia Somekh and Carlos Leite explore the constraints and opportunities to deliver high quality design in the city’s major urban projects.
When it comes to the realisation of major urban interventions, São Paulo is lagging behind [...]