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“The shopping mall could probably be called the DNA of our times.”

July 12th, 2007

That’s his final sentence in this interesting article by Robert Misik. Basically he touches good points about malls, how they are transforming our public spaces into private ones, how city center are trying to use this approach as well. It made me think to question what’s a city center really? How did a city […]

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5 Courts

January 3rd, 2007

A revolutionary multi-player, multi-site game and arts space to be played across all five cities. Players use their own bodies to send balls of projected light across the playing space, aiming for goals representing the other cities. Entirely interactive, it’s a competition to see which city has the least light balls in their square when […]

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