Scott Burnham – Page 11

Take 1 abandoned housing estate, add 90,000 litres of copper sulfate…

Creative re-use of existing urban areas is something of an obsession for me – I’m even moderating a dinner on the topic in a couple weeks. While my radar is tuned mostly to re-use done outside of formal cultural structures,Continue Reading

Urban Play Focus 01: Gilberto Esparza – Urban Parasites

As part of the lead-up to the launch of the Urban Play project I am doing with Droog Design in Amsterdam, I will be writing a series of focus pieces on the urban intervention artists and designers I have selectedContinue Reading

Who really designed Beijing’s Olympic Stadium?

I was reading an article yesterday that asked this question in reference to the role of artist Ai Weiwei vs architects Herzog & de Meuron. For my money though, the original designer isn’t even one of those two. Here’s theContinue Reading

Mark Jenkins in Barcelona: the story

photo by Mark Jenkins Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of Mark Jenkins‘ work. What always impresses me about his body of work is not only the quality of the finished pieces, but the way in which he integratesContinue Reading

Lisbon Street Art Tribute to Pessoa

Photo Credit: Joao Pina for The New York Times The New York Times just published a fine article about the dilemma facing Portugal that a collection of the famed Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s papers might be sold and leave theContinue Reading

New Work From CutUp

Last night CutUp installed their latest batch of work throughout London. For those of you not (yet) familiar with CutUp, they specialize in physically remixing the urban visual, taking down billboards, cutting them up into pixels, and re-installing them toContinue Reading

Report Out: Urban Intervention as Design Masterclass

Give 31 exceptionally talented design students a week to play with the city and design, and see what it gets you?Continue Reading

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