Projektbericht: Die Stadt der Zukunft der Klasse 5a entstand über mehrere Wochen während des Kunstunterrichts. Nachdem die Schüler über das perfectcity- Projekt informiert worden waren, einigten sich die Kinder auf die Umsetzung einer gemeinsamen Idee. Die Schüler hatten die Aufgabe in kleinen Gruppen gemeinsam ein Haus zu entwerfen, in dem sie in Zukunft gerne wohnen würden. Verwendet wurden ausschließlich Recyclingmaterialien, die die Schüler selbst sammelten und in den Unterricht mitbrachten. Durch das Zusammenfügen aller Häuser entlang des Main, entstand eine Idee davon, wie optimales Wohnen in Frankfurt in der Zukunft aussehen könnte. Alle Ideen entspringen ausschließlich den Überlegungen und der Fantasie der Schüler. Die Kommentare stammen aus Interviews, die mit den einzelnen Kindern geführt wurden.
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Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night cultural festival. The festival lasts from sundown until sunrise on the first Saturday and Sunday in October and has, since its premiere in Paris 2002, spread to many other cities internationally, including Brussels, Chicago, Toronto and many more.
During this festival, an interesting project came to light in Toronto this year – an installation called Stereoscope. Stereoscope is an interactive light installation at Toronto City Hall. This installation by the German group Project Blinkenlights transforms the landmark towers into a huge display screen by arranging lamps behind each of the 960 windows of the building. From October 4th – October 12th, 2008 (from dusk till dawn) the façade served as an ever-changing and evolving kaleidoscope of graphic animations automatically generated. Through a variety of interfaces including smartphones, the web and physical controllers located at Nathan Phillips Square, the public could influence the installation. In other words the City Hall’s windows were turned to pixels to create a giant interactive LED display.
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General @ 16 Oct 2008 12:32 pm by Robert Schmidl
One of our readers advised us of an essay by Dan Hill. Dan Hill is a senior consultant at the renowned and highly innovative engineering firm Arup. Prior to that, he was the director of web and broadcast at Monocle and the head of interactive technology and design at the BBC.
The essay is on recent ideas around urban informatics and urban information design, the impact of real-time data and collaborative planning on urban form, and most of all the changing role and new empowerment of people living in these cities. According to Hill, the essay is on cities as a user interface for governance, in which citizens play an intrinsic role.
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The Public Chance: New Urban Landscapes is a new book from a+t architecture publishers. It is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. It is the first book published by a+t ediciones in the In common series, which came about in 2005 in the pages of a+t magazine to express them concerns for the good use and design of common spaces and was developed over two years, in four issues.
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General @ 09 Oct 2008 03:23 pm by Eurohypo
We would like to remind you of our current pupil competition called “PerfectFrankfurt 2020”. The aim of this project is to generate ideas for the city of tomorrow concerning questions like: How will people live, work and spend their leisure time in Frankfurt by 2020? What will Frankfurt’s urban face look like? Will Frankfurt remain a tolerant and cosmopolitan city? Answers to these and many other future questions still need to be found, so that the Main metropolis remains a modern, liveable city within the next twenty till thirty years?
All pupils in the fifth grade and up, from any school in Frankfurt were invited to take part in the competition whose deadline is extended until the 31st of January 2009.
This week, we published the first entries by our participants. Have a look at these on PerfectFrankfurt. What do you think about these creations?
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PerfectCity Charter @ 06 Oct 2008 07:52 am by Eurohypo
We have closed our poll on social services and we would like thank everyone who has voted for the factors in our poll. Now, we would like to present the summarized results to you:
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General @ 02 Oct 2008 05:00 am by Robert Schmidl
MAD, a Beijing-based architectural design studio dedicated to creating innovative projects, has introduced a new conceptual project. The so-called Superstar is a star shaped, mobile China town.
According to the architects the project is a response to the redundant and increasingly out-of-date nature of the contemporary Chinatown. Even though the Superstar would be moving around the world, the mobile town would be able to produce all its own energy. In addition, it would recycle all its own waste, requiring no resources from its host city.
The town would be home to 15,000 people and include health resorts, sports facilities, drinking-water lakes and a digital cemetery.
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General @ 25 Sep 2008 06:00 am by Robert Schmidl
Delete! was an art project and installation by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf in Vienna in 2005. For a period of two weeks, the artists “deleted” all public sign and signals (advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos), except those necessary for road safety, and covered them in yellow foils and plastic.
The aim of this project was to spark a public debate about just how much advertising society can take. The artists argued there’s too much advertising in Vienna, where billboards line many streets and where scaffolding — even on historic buildings such as the famed St. Stephen’s Cathedral — often is covered by oversized ads. Steinbrenner said "You can’t see the landscape anymore. It hurts the eyes.”. The artists did not set out to just conceal the ads — they want to create awareness about them.
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