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How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps
Just back from a few days in Berlin, where, among many other things, I had a chance to get together with Aram Bartholl to talk about his SPEED SHOW project, a beautifully simple initiative to turn your local internet cafe into a digital art show. As Aram describes in his SPEED SHOW manifest: “Hit an [...]
In Discussion with Jaime Lerner
For most people with even a passing interest in innovative urban problem-solving, the words Jaime Lerner and Curitiba, Brazil will hold special reverence. Lerner is the urban planner and three-times mayor of Curitiba who transformed the once traffic-congested, economically and environmentally challenged city into one of the world’s most livable urban spaces. This Wednesday at [...]
Economic Crisis = Opportunity via Firefox
As someone who is involved in a number of initiatives to use the economic crisis as a catalyst for creating opportunity, the first thing I tell people is to change perspective on how you view this period of time. Leo Burnett Lisbon has taken things one step further, creating a Firefox plugin which scans the [...]
Web Browser as Creative Catalyst: Chrome Experiments
Google Creative Labs’ Creative Director Ji Lee emailed me the other day to tell me about Chrome Experiments, a new product Google Creative Labs has just launched. Now that I’ve had time to play with the site and many of the experiments, I have to report out that not only is it all good, but [...]
Strategies for Tough Times: Focus on the Micro-Entrepreneur
I recently gave a keynote lecture to the World Urban Congress in Riga, Latvia, on creative strategies for difficult economic times. The Congress provided a fantastic overview of what is taking place in urban development across the world, but what I saw and heard also left me a bit cold. The reason is that largely, [...]
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