Urban Culture: Exploring Street Art, Graffiti & More

Delve into the fascinating world of urban culture with our archive of insightful articles. We explore the diverse artistic expressions that thrive in cityscapes, from the bold strokes of graffiti artists to the intricate details of street murals. Discover the stories behind iconic pieces, learn about the artists who shape urban landscapes, and understand the social and political contexts fueling this vibrant movement. Explore the history, evolution, and impact of urban art forms and uncover the hidden narratives etched onto the city’s walls.

Concrete Chair - Urban Interior

I love to have urban-inspired interior around me. That’s why you can not just find street signs and slot-machines already in my apartment, but that’s also why I would love to have this beautiful concrete chair made by Swiss architect and designer Stefan Zwicky! Zwicky, who took Le Corbusier’s LC2 armchair and transformed it into a monolithic piece of furniture which expresses the weight and cold nature of concrete (as was mentioned by designboom.com), created in that way a must to have for every fairfaced concrete enthusiast like me. ...

Urban Farming: Roof-Top Garden in Berlin

The urban farming project Himmelbeet (sky patch) is currently planning an extensive roof-top garden over Berlin! On the top of a former multi-storey car park in Berlin-Wedding, the nonprofit project is going to open an open gardening zone as from May 2013… In addition to the crops a beekeeper will supervise beehives. Workshops, cultural events and a coffee shop will revive the environment. We take a stand for maintaining of regional varieties, and want to grow organically and by the principles of permaculture. Gardening will take place in mobile raised beds. In addition to the community garden space, it will be possible to lease an own bed for a season. (loosely translated) ...

Urban Culture Talk: Graffiti equals Gentrification?!

Is urban art influencing urban development and planning? How does creative street culture cause social restructuring? And does graffiti equal gentrification? With its new monthly Culture Talk series, the network for cultural development Platoon is going to discuss those and similar questions! Furthermore, the NGO for culture, art and communication is going to open the doors of its new headquarter in Berlin for the first time… Urban Art vs. Gentrification? The discussion about street art and graffiti triggering first beginnings of a gentrification process is not new, at least in Berlin. Nonetheless, almost everyone in town, being threatened by gentrificational impacts has a different opinion and blames someone else. Platoon is now going to bring together artists, scientists and scene players, who all are probably part of the extensive social, economical and cultural shiftings taking place here and elsewhere… ...

Uebergrund #3 - Urban Exploration Magazine

In addition to the fantastic Klebstoff #4 Sticker Magazine, I also just received the third issue of Sebastian Linck’s urban exploration magazine Uebergrund! Like the previous two issues (#1 and #2), this latest photo mag presents urbanex impressions from different cities in Germany and Europe. This time, Uebergrund mainly focuses on the beauty of almost demolished and decaying houses and factory buildings in East-Germany, Darmstadt and Lisbon! More Urban Exploration Photography: Sebastian Linck’s Uebergrund magazine is one of the few German contributions for the international urban exploration scene. If you like to see some more urbex impressions, check out some other photo-taking urban explorers from around the globe! ...

Best Places in Berlin, Posters

The best places in Berlin are now marked as such by students of Communication in Social and Economic Contexts (Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation, GWK) at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK)! The group placed several controversial posters throughout the entire city, presenting slogans like - *U8 is the best place for buying heroin in Berlin. Amen.*, - *Mustafas is the best place for waiting in line in Berlin. Amen.*, - *Kastanienallee is the best place for dying on your fixi in Berlin ever. Amen.* or - *Revaler Straße is the best Technostrich ever. Amen.* For those of you who already visited Berlin, these best places in Berlin should not be that unfamiliar… ...

Top Of Shard Tower

Top of Shard Tower The Shard Tower already dominates London’s skyline and will become Europe’s tallest building when construction work is finished. Nevertheless, some urban explorers (as you could already watch in the Crack The Surface documentary) entered the Shard’s construction site and took some astonishing photographs, as Sky News recently broadcasted… Urbex Photograph: Around the globe, urban explorers discover secret places, document decaying buildings or walk along subway tracks. If you’re interested in the resulting photographs, check out the Top Urban Exploration Photographers! ...

Uebergrund - Urbex Photography Magazine

The third issue of Sebastian Linck’s self-made urbex photography magazine Uebergrund is coming soon! After issue one (published in 2009) and issue two (published in 2011) I’m really curious to see what impressing locations Sebastian explored this time…I’ll keep you posted. Furthermore, the Uebergrund photography mag finally got an own website, presenting not just insights from the different issues, but also selected shots from the photographers portfolio, what makes it worth to check out now! Those of you, who didn’t ordered their magazine copies yet, should do so in near future for two reasons: ...

Urbex Photography Special

Urban exploring becomes more and more popular for young people from the cities around the world, who want to discover hidden places, explore abandoned houses, and climb on the highest buildings in town. Documenting their achievements with often amazing photographs, the urban explorers built up distributed communities (and published urbex guides) in the web for the last years, for what reason even more boys and girls (including me) were influenced to join this movement and to push urbex photography. ...

Skateboard Fireworks Mayhem in Vancouver

That’s what I call a great skateboard event: In Vancouver, BC a few hundred people partied Halloween with an extraordinary skateboard fireworks jam in an abandoned skate-park tunnel! This event attracted that much attention throughout the entire galaxy that in addition to Harold Green, Vampires Dream, Banana, Lemmy, the She Wolfs, Manwolf, Ladyman, Scarecrow, Werewolf, Long Underwear Man, Clumsy Lumberjack and Dirty Hippy even Mr. Zaphod Beeblebrox himself came back to earth for a short skate-session! ...

Urban Exploration Documentary: Crack the Surface 2

The first part of the urban exploration documentary Crack the Surface was a great success and is still one of my most favorite urbex videos! Luckily, SilentUK recently published the second part, focusing on urban explorers from America and Canada and their participation and experiences within their local and global exploring community… Urbex Photographers from around the Globe: Already watched both Crack the Surface episodes? Then you should definitely check out the stunning shots by some of the greatest urban exploration photographers! ...