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Painting as Protest: Rainbow Stairs Spark Guerilla Reaction

It started with a single person painting one public staircase, but when city workers of Istanbul, Turkey covered this brightly-colored street art with dull gray paint, citizen activists picked up ...

Reconstructed Destruction: Flyover of Bombed WWII Warsaw

It took 1 year, over 1000 photographs and extensive archival research to construct The City of Ruins, a digital stereoscopic reconstruction of Warsaw, Poland in its most devastated state. With ...

4-Dimensional Photography: Artistic Time-Lapse City Collages

Motion pictures aside, the nature of photographic representation implies freezing space in time - a moment captured and preserved, independent of what comes before or after. Yet, as ...

Live Between Buildings: Narrow Micro-Homes Fill City Gaps

Playful yet thought-provoking, this project asks: what do we do with small leftover spaces in cities ... particularly in urban areas where even a few square feet of real estate can cost a ...

Human Interest: Homeless Dogs Given Hope-Filled Balloons

In a unique urban intervention, two college students took and attached a series of balloons marked with written phrases to stray canines Santiago, Chile. The messages encourage people to feed, ...

Dark City: Giant Mirrors Aim to Illuminate Town in Shadows

A lovely little settlement in a lush valley of Norway sounds like a slice of paradise - except that the surrounding hills keep it out of sunlight for nearly half of the year. This incredible ...

Self-Sufficient City: Zero-Waste, Carbon-Neutral & Car-Free

It sounds like a conceptual design or science-fiction fantasy, but it is already under construction. Rising in the desert outside of Abu Dhabi, Masdar City will be the world's most sustainable ...

Paper City Animation: “Rise & Fold” of a Fragile Metropolis

Unfolding like a pop-up book in real time, this incredible little built landscape of buildings and bridges, trees and mountains, lampposts and benches rises from nothing then fades back into the ...

Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion

Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...

Floating on Ephemerisle: Seasteading Event ala Burning Man

For all its art and controversy, the desert is perhaps the most unique defining characteristic of Black Rock City, home of the Burning Man Festival in rural Nevada. Potentially even more ...

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