February 2012
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Art House Co-op: Inspiration in Ingredients →
arthousecoop: The studio isn’t the only place to create artwork. What about the kitchen, the table, the market or the farm? In our excitement for the new FREE Art House project - The Meal - we wanted to share with you a smattering of cool food-related works. From the conceptual to the performative, the…
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vikingpenguinbooks: Feeling the Earth Move: Urban Sidewalk Liquid Intervention The normal urban environment is hard, angular and not often playful. We go about our business with the type of calculated indifference cultivated through years of city dwelling. But when that cold, hard environment suddenly changes unexpectedly, we have no choice but to snap out of our collective reverie and take...
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January 2012
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“Up until 10,000 years ago there were no permanent settlements and all human...”
– Mark Pagel, Cities as Gardens
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“Dr. Jackson, who was then the head of the National Center for Environmental...”
– “America’s Health Threat: Poor Urban Design”  (via youcancallmecaity)
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“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking,...”
– Rebecca Solnit (via lifeonfoot)
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“The city multiplies man’s power to think, to remember, to educate, to...”
– Lewis Mumford
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jessemclean: Landscape architecture never interested me as much as regular architecture did, but this is a game changer. Now to figure out which I’d rather dive into. Wow, such a lovely definition of public space in urban areas: “Intimate immensity is what it’s like to be in a forest—where things are immediate and tactile and intimate—but at the same time you’re...
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“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“We went on Saturday. It was really fantastic, in the most literal sense of the word.” - Alec A house that crumbled in the Bywater neighborhood was resurrected into a musical box installation — the floorboards, and well, you name it, became ‘playable’ instruments with the genius of Taylor Shepherd (I’ve seen his other kinetic installations when I...
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“Imaginative interventions aren’t always technological or expert. They can be...”
–  A new exhibit at the Noguchi Museum called Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City is highlighting how works of art can be transformative. The installments in this exhibit offer suggestions for Long Island City, an area in Queens, New York City, undergoing haphazard and rapid development (and...
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