This year, Urban farming is a hotter topic than ever before… “In February, Mayor Mike McGinn and Seattle City Councilmembers announced the “2010: The Year of Urban Agriculture” campaign to promote urban agriculture efforts and increase community access to locally grown food.” … and not only in Seattle. September this year, at the Rotterdam Harvest [...]
In 2009, american geographer Richard Florida, wrote a post at The Atlantic website about brand new homes being demolished in California, due to the real estate crisis. Dozens of suburban houses were being destroyed by the Guarantee Bank of Austin because appartenly it was cheaper than maintaining them empty. In fact, the abandoned McMansion type [...]
Het Eilandje (The little Island), in the middle of a swampy tidal stream connected to the Schelde river, became part of the harbor of Antwerp in the golden age, when large numbers of cargo ships sailed into the city´s docks. When the port area consolidated later on, the island remained, between the Willems- and Bonaparte [...]
At the expert meeting ‘The Seriousness of Play’ the question was asked how art can be used to improve access of the population to cultural heritage. The meeting was meant to bridge the gap between artists, curators and heritage institutions such as museums. Merten Nefs was invited to shed light on the matter from the [...]
Invited by Mediamatic, Coen Rens and 21 artists, for example Golfstromen, spent the summer of 2010 mapping the borough’s visible and invisible locations, people and data flows, and research its history and future. The work resulted in an exhibition and gave rise to the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. They created the game [...]
