UrbanoActivo

Restaurant Day! publicdesignfestival: Created in Helsinki...

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:45:08 -0400

Restaurant Day!

Created in Helsinki (Finland) in 2011, Restaurant Day is a one-day event that celebrates food culture. Everybody can participate setting up a pop-up restaurant in a park, on a street corner, in a sitting room or anywhere else. Next Restaurant Day will be on 19th August 2012 and will invade new cities.

Photos by Tuomas Sarparanta, Roy Bäckström, Henri Ilanen, Hanna Anttila and Heidi Uutela - All rights reserved.

Bookyard - an outdoor library. floresenelatico: massimo...

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:09:45 -0400

Bookyard - an outdoor library.

floresenelatico:

massimo bartolini

Is public art a crime? Who decides over public space use? The...

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:10:00 -0400

Is public art a crime? Who decides over public space use? The recent event of a world renown Brooklyn based artist put today’s public art into question. Takeshi Miyakawa was arrested this past may19 and charged with the class D felony of reckless endangerment, placing of false bombs, and criminal nuisance. After the misunderstanding he was released today, May 23rd from Rikers Island jail. For more information visit here or here.

CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS. Hello to all followers and followed tumblr...

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:55:00 -0400

CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS. Hello to all followers and followed tumblr friends! We will be visiting Berlin and Rotterdam during this next month on June, from the 6-27 to be exact. We would love to learn from any events, exhibitions, lectures, special places or particular things that will be happening in these two cities around those dates. We want to make sure we don’t miss anything. In return we will place a sticker that says you recommended us that spot with a link to you and feature it in a collective post when we get back. Please feel free to give us your suggestions to andrea@urbanoactivo.com or leave us a message in our submit link.

Bubbles! urbanistin: looks like a lot of fun!! the Bubble...

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:52:29 -0400

Bubbles!

urbanistin:

looks like a lot of fun!!

the Bubble Building by DUS Architects

read more about the project here

MAKING CITY IS MAKING POLITICS / ROTTERDAM BIENNALE

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:30:05 -0400

MAKING CITY IS MAKING POLITICS / ROTTERDAM BIENNALE:

The 5th IABR: Making City is open to the public from 20 April 2012 and features seven exhibitions at different venues, a conference, debates and lectures, publications, and television and radio programmes made with the VPRO broadcasting corporation.

Bike Rack Design Competition 2012. For more details please...

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:57:35 -0400

Bike Rack Design Competition 2012. For more details please visit http://www.bicirack.com/

urbanistin: lovely playground- not only for...

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:24:40 -0400

urbanistin:

lovely playground- not only for children…

caitinka:

Dymaxion Sleep by Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell

I loved it since I saw it: you’re lying on a meadow, but you’re actually not, you’re above it. Then I read in the project description the plants are aromatic ones, which made it even more interesting for me.

ilgirodialice: SKY DECK BY TORAFU ARCHITECTS in collaboration...

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:09:59 -0400

ilgirodialice:

SKY DECK BY TORAFU ARCHITECTS in collaboration with Ishinomaki Laboratory

This is a small table made to hook onto handrails, and it uses just enough pieces of wood to do so. You can put your mobile phone or a radio on it while you hang out your laundry, or it can be used as a counter when you have a beer on your balcony on a nice day. Floating in the air, sky deck stretches a narrow balcony space out by just a little bit, into the city beyond.

publicdesignfestival: Straatlokaal is a process of building...

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:15:41 -0400

publicdesignfestival:

Straatlokaal is a process of building social encounter by Foundation Projects. During the whole month of April the group worked with people and waste materials in three different district of Utrecht (The Netherlands), turning containers into small houses. From 5 to 10 May the brand new structures will be transfered in Neude neighbourhood and will become Straatlokaal: a public space with a daily programme of events.

Siiiiiiiii! We have been selected!

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:58:42 -0400

“Congratulations! We are pleased to include your project in Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, the official U.S. presentation at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale”

This years U.S. pavilion was commissioned to the New-York based Institute for Urban Design. Their project Spontaneous Interventions will archive all sorts of DIY urbanism and guerrilla interventions around the US. Their open call for submissions ended this past February. We feel honored to be selected and are extremely thankful for IFUD’s initiative. Congratulation to all that have been selected too!

urbanbricolage: When IKEA changes your bus stop into an...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:26:42 -0400

urbanbricolage:

When IKEA changes your bus stop into an improbable living room, is that urban bricolage or just clever marketing?

(Paris 2010)

Architecture students form the Polytechnic University of Puerto...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:37:26 -0400

Architecture students form the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico re-activate la Loiza’s precious vacant lot. Lead by professors Omayra Rivera and Yazmin Crespo, the workshop developed in building urban furniture with discarded material for the various activities, including the event Cinema Paradiso in la Loiza. A much needed do it yourself initiative to restore good social quality into our neglected urban spaces. For more information and further interventions visit here.

Works of urban and social relevance at the 3rd Trienal...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:09:34 -0400

Works of urban and social relevance at the 3rd Trienal Poligráfica of San Juan, Puerto Rico- this years theme, The Hive. Here are some examples from Michelle Gratacós, Edgardo Larregui and from Buró de Intervenciones Públicas. The trienal opens on saturday, April 28. For more information go here.

ianbrooks: Ginormous Inflatable Beasts by Joshua Allen Harris A...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:08:27 -0400

ianbrooks:

Ginormous Inflatable Beasts by Joshua Allen Harris

A little tape, some shopping bags, and an open air vent are all you need to create these inflatable chimera, something street artist Harris is especially adept at. Way better than arm-flailing inflatable tube men. The bad part? When there’s no air, they die horrible, disfiguring deaths:

(via: lostateminor)

labespaciopublico: Xylo[phone] by Anuardi and Yailene with the...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:18:00 -0400

labespaciopublico:

Xylo[phone] by Anuardi and Yailene with the help pf Wilfredo, Jubilee and Bea. First exercise for the project Thoughtless Monuments created by Isabel Ramirez Pagan in collaboration with UrbanoActivo for this first experiment. The project transformed an unused and broken down phone booth into a musical instrument using pvc tubes to create an urban xylophone.

humanscalecities: For the people, by the people. A visual story...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:49:01 -0400

humanscalecities:

For the people, by the people. A visual story of the DIY city

For the People, By the People by Afaina de Jong is a visual story about how people influence change in the city. The collapse of faith in top-down planning has been followed by a renewed interest in the self-generating wisdom of bottom-up urban initiatives. What does it mean when people act as the urban change agents that direct the life and death of the world’s cities? Fusing her photography with a manifesto-like text, architect Afaina de Jong marks the people in the streets as the starting point of all urban trends and cultural innovation. And calls upon us all to become architects of our environment.

Kolotoc, Merry go round. Four artists from Prague turn...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:20:00 -0400

Kolotoc, Merry go round. Four artists from Prague turn a rotating billboard into a carnival ride. Must watch Video.

Cloud Cities by Tomás Saraceno for Berlin’s Hamburger...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:30:55 -0400

Cloud Cities by Tomás Saraceno for Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. January 2012.

bionicaarquitectura: ‘Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:10:42 -0400

bionicaarquitectura:

‘Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture’, The Strip, project by
Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.

1972. Cut-and-pasted paper and painted paper with ink, pen, and graphite on photolithograph (map of London)