Interactive Enthusiasts in Art
…bi, worldly and raw, blends politics and emotions from the deep fringes of urban Ljubljana. The juxtaposition is evocative and enjoyably open-ended, leaving room for personal choice in a journey. There are always decisions to be made in how to regard newly visible places. Far from preachy or patronizing, the film echoes the words of a third guide and another invisible world: “I don’t help anyone. I give you only a place.” -Don Pierino Despite thei…
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…more popular. Foraging describes the act of looking or searching for food. Urban foragers are looking for food in urban areas. Critics may say that this orginal way of wandering around and searching for food isn´t necessary in our globalized, western civilized world, because there are supermarkets on every corner where you can get everything you need fast and cheap than instead of walking around in urban areas and looking for food. But that is exa…
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…combines modern communication, interaction and eagerness to experiment in urban space. Urban Gaming Festivals exist in different versions. With street games, outdoor spectacles, mass social interaction the festival organisators want to announce the reclamation of public spaces for play and adventure. Popular examples are Come out & Play (New York), Hide & Seek Weekender (London), igFest (Bristol), You Are GO! (Berlin). The festivals are inventi…
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…the world as an archaeologist. For the past four years, he has lived as an urban explorer, photographing off-limits urban places. He is currently developing a new project that will use smartphone and tablet technology to reveal buried urban history. Breathtaking and brilliantly illustrated—reclaiming the city with extreme urban explorations!!! Disclaimer? There is none, do as you wish. Climb bridges, run the subways, play in sewage, go in drains….
Read more…more… Skywalking around the World Thomas Büsch Illegal Photographs That Urban Climbers Risked Their Lives To Take Urban explorers or place hacker are groups of young people illegally scaling buildings around the world to take the most incredible, heart-pounding, vertigo-inducing, one-of-a-kind shots of cities from vantages rarely seen. Russian teenager Marat Dupri began scaling buildings and other high-rise structures in Moscow to take la…
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…rcoming the urban borders as well as the physican borders of your body- an urban transformation. It´s also about retaking urban space in a time where public space gets privatized more and more and used for commerical purposes, as if to say “public space for everyone”. Thus Parkour is an important part of the discourse about using public space. Traceurs create a new-invention of urban space. It´s makes people seeing their city and urban environment…
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…l”, she gives a thought-provoking – and mayhaps scary perspective on this “urban model” – and the urban future it stands for. Do you ever go to the city center? To Istanbul’s center? No. It’s so far. And we have everything we need here. What they have is a main square biased by a shopping mall. What they have is international brands and restaurants with organic halal food. No traffic, no filth, no fools. Basaksehir – a blindfold paradise. A Disn…
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…about the nature of urban planning and the public’s role in actively (re)claiming public space. The artists’ modus operandi of transforming the uses and functions of existing features of the cityscape challenges the functionalism and pragmatism that drive urban zoning imperatives in Singapore. It is in the spirit of play – play as breaking from control, and spontaneous (re)invention or improvisation – that the Urban Play interventions present an a…
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…tistic tools…… Istanbul – good vibes only! May 5, 2020 Places / Topics / Voices A tour from Istanbul’s Taksim Square over Istiklal Street to the pier in Karaköy. This route is usually abound with crowds. Snapshots from Sema Sincap. An artist living in İstanbul. On a stroll through the city she is picturing pieces of street art mainly in Karaköy. The location is undergoing massive gentrification due to the Galataport-Project: it shall become…
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