The premier edition of the Human Cities Festival will take place in Brussels from May 6 – 16 2010. The main theme of the 10 day festival in Brussels, Bozar and around will be public space specifically celebrating public space as a common good. The content of the festival will explore socio-cultural dynamics of sustainable [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]