Urbanism

Urbanism through street-level observation—documenting how cities actually work through photography, video, festivals, and cultural moments. Discover urban culture unfolding in public spaces, from carnival celebrations to architecture evolution captured in timelapse.

This collection captures city life in action, examining urban culture, street events, festivals, and the social dynamics that animate public space. Explore how gentrification changes neighborhoods, how communities gather and celebrate, and how cities continually transform through human interaction and intervention.

Book of Urbanism

Did you ever heard something about the “Book of Urbanism” before? I do not, but I like it! “Book of Urbanism” is a projects platform for interventional art projects in urban landscapes, temporary architecture, media architectures, architectural art, public art, interdisciplinary projects and city development projects. The central question is how public spaces will looks like in future? Everything is about urban design, city interior and art in the public space! ...

Audiovisual Facade Projection

As I told you some weeks ago, light art and facade projection are in vogue this year. More and more audiovisual art installations can be found worldwide and more and more artists use modern technologies for their works. Today I got an e-mail including a link to a superb audiovisual facade projection, made by the Telenoika Cultural Association at the “Ingravid Festival of Contemporary Culture” in Figueras, Spain. I was impressed while watching it. The sound, the lights, the shadows, everything dovetails nicely! ...

Giants in Berlin

For the last three days, the giants visited Berlin! I was on the streets today to take some photos of the big and very impressing marionettes. Me and thousands of other people were astonished about the vitality, the giants radiated. The parade was a huge spectacle with live music, confetti and cheering people… If you want to get some impressions, take a look at my photos! “spielzeit’europa | Berliner Festspiele and the legendary French street theatre company Royal de Luxe present The Giants Arrive – A Fairy Tale for Berlin: an open-air theatre spectacle to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...

Spacemag #2 - “Gaffa-Urbanism”

Call for papers - The SpaceDepartment calls you up to co-design the Spacemag #2! The second Spacemag issue will, under the working title “Gaffa-Urbanism”, thematize urban phenomena and principles: “Gaffa-Urbanism is the result of a spontaneous and improvised combination of objects and ideas in a urban context. Often, the Gaffa method leads to new cultural forms and patterns of urban functions. “Gaffa-Urbanism” extends the concept of informal city.” (SpaceDepartment) Improvisation, unusual, under the hand, appropriation, just in time, MacGyver, unplanned, pockets-innovation, non-conforming, need to be undesirable, hobby room, underground economy, life plan, experimental, compromise, temporarily, enough… With these thoughts the SpaceDepartment calls you up to submit contributions of any form, which capture the “Gaffa-Urbanism”! ...

Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition

Two week ago, Chris Weeks published his street photography documentation series, which is simply named “Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition”. The three parts of this documentation give an insight into the manner of taking photos in the urban, public space and tries to get to the bottom of how street photography changed the view of seeing the world around us. “I think I started to forget things and […] when I’m taking a picture of something it helps me not to forget. I start to shoot a lot. I started to shoot people […] I just need to save it somewhere. An dif you have a photo you can also share it to others. That’s a good thing about it. You just share, what’s happening in your world, what’s happening around […]. So I think, everybody who takes street pictures has their own view of it.” (Severin Koller, photographer) ...

Metropolis Art Prize - Win $5,000

Attention! I recently got an e-mail by Claire from Babelgum Metropolis, who wrote about a great creative video competition in which you have the chance to win $5,000 for your street art video: “We have just launched the Metropolis Art Prize offering artists the chance to upload a video of their art to win $20,000 and get their work displayed on giant monitors in Times Square. There is also special Street Art award of $5,000. (Although Street Art is still eligible for the Grand Prize) ...

The Urban Cookbook

Do you know “The Urban Cookbook” by writer, author and filmmaker King Adz? It brings together what not fits together at the first glance - street food, street art and street style! Creative recipes for the graffiti generation! In addition to 50 urban cookery recipes, the book also contains interviews with 25 street artists like Wooster Collective from New York, E-Boy from Berlin, JR and Invader from Paris, Helmut Smits from Amsterdam and D*Face from London. ...

Urban Morphing

“Collapse Times” is the name of an interesting urban time lapse video clip by Luis Simione and Marcelo Demari. In contrast to these two city portraits, this short film’s focus is not the city character, but a special morphing effect. This effect makes the night light time lapse more dynamic and livelier. Take a look and enjoy urban feeling!

24h Berlin

“24h Berlin – A Day in the Life” is television’s longest program ever! Without actors and tricks, about 80 camera teams filmed a whole day in Germany’s capital Berlin a year ago. The film makes it possible to get impressions of the life in this modern metropolis. Today it firstly comes to television, for exactly 1440 minutes, that’s 24 hours! You can watch “24h Berlin” in real time via life stream! ...

Hongkong Time Lapse

Yesterday, Hamburg based photographer and filmmaker Max Moos uploaded with his fantastic Hong Kong time lapse video clip the next part of his series of lime lapse city portraits! As in the city portraits of New York and Istanbul, this video impressed with interesting snapshots of the architecture, urban landscape and street life of the métropole! ...