-
Exclusive Economic Zone
November 30, 2009Regardless of how the economy is doing, natural resources are hot. Many of the easily accessible resources on the mainland are exhausted and more and more effort is being put into off-shore exploitation. Today, a country’s marine economic area is defined by its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), a 200-nauticalmile-wide...
-
Symposium: ‘Networked Cities: Governance, Trust, Design’
November 30, 2009On the last day of ‘Stadtstaat. A Scenario for Merging Cities’, a project by Metahaven at Casco, a public forum with international thinkers and practitioners is organized in order to further discuss the issues prompted by the project: urban governance and politics in the light of network power and the...
-
Totally Monopoly
October 17, 2009Without a doubt, Monopoly is the world’s most commercially successful board game, with over 200 million games sold in 82 countries, translated into 26 languages, and with more than 750 million players.* The earliest version of Monopoly (called ‘The Landlord's Game’) was patented in 1904 by Elizabeth J.
-
Different Repetitions by Medic & Puljiz
October 17, 2009The book “Different Repetitions - Buildings & Projects 1999-2009” by Medic & Puljiz was released in September 2009. Project stories by Theo Deutinger; designed by Mevis & Van Deursen; published by 010 Publishers. English 240 pp.
-
"The Slow Web"
October 17, 2009Impakt Online exhibits art projects designed for the Web. We invite and support artists to create new work. During the Impakt Festival, Impakt Online will officially launch the new online exhibition "The Slow Web" with a talkshow.
-
World at Work
September 27, 2009The project the "World at Work" rediscovers the earth as ‘Time Machine’. Its rotation around its own axis gives us our days and its course around the sun determines our earthly year. To achieve a higher degree of accuracy in organizing their life, humans divided one day in 24 hours...
-
Ostrale in Dresden
September 27, 2009Theo Deutinger presents the Average European as life size installation at the Ostrale 2009 in Dresden. Curated by Lukas Feireiss.
-
World At Work in WIRED
September 27, 2009The semptember 09 issue of WIRED UK presents a silver edition of World At Work.
-
Walled World
September 17, 2009Accelerated through the fear from the attacks of 9/11 and all what followed, the so called ‘Western Society’ is constructing the greatest wall ever build on this planet. On different building sites on all five inhabitable continents, walls, fences and high-tech border surveillance are under construction in order to secure...
-
Lost Cities, Lost Empires
August 20, 2009The decline of cities is of all times. However it is of utmost significance when this decline goes hand in hand with the decline of an entire civilization. Their disappearance remains sometimes a mystery, very often it is a result of war but also climate changes and natural disasters...