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Private Islands
October 19, 2015During the age of discovery, the sight of new islands raised explorers’ hopes for more uncharted landmasses, populated by strange people, plants and animals. In those days islands became destinations of dreams – of new worlds. It seems only logical that Thomas More’s fictional Utopia – a perfect society – was on an island.
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Around the world in GEO
October 17, 2015Issue Nr 10 2015 of GEO magazine - Germany presents an edition of Around the world.
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Refugee Camps
August 24, 2015The political formalization of our planet’s surface into territories through the nation building process assigned every human to a specific territory. This organized the world nicely and granted the people within the territories with specific rights.
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Garden of Modernity
June 04, 2015‘Garden of Modernity’ is a development strategy that focuses on the neglected modern heritage of the city of Marl, while proposing a re-activation of all modern buildings through a productive natural landscape.
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Walls & Fences
June 03, 2015Since the fall of the Iron Curtain a quarter century ago, the world has been busy building barriers at an unprecedented rate: about 10,000 km of wire, concrete, steel, sand, stone and mesh has been employed to keep people out or in.
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Melt - minus20degree 2016
June 02, 2015Inviting all artists to submit proposals for m20d16, the third edition of minus20degree art and architecture biennale. (Jan 28 - 30, 2016) Open Call is now online: Open Call Brief
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Submarine Cables
June 01, 2015Living in the age of Wi-Fi, we float on an illusion of wireless communication, yet over 95 per cent of international communication is routed via submarine fibre optic cables. Data and voice transfer over such cables is not only cheaper but also much quicker than satellite transmission.
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Non Shop City
February 10, 2015Is it possible to imagine a city without shops? If current trends in retail continue, it’s a scenario that seems very likely. Everywhere in the retail-saturated, online shop-obsessed world, the presence of brick-and-mortar stores is waning fast, while digital commerce booms.