Urban Interventions: creative activation of urban spaces

Well if you loved our bus shelter and all other wonderful city installations that popped up and then away in Newcastle back in 2008, then get your inky fingers ready to play in the city again!

23rd to 27th Feb 2010, City Switch will happen in Newcastle, Australia.

Bringing Architects, artists and activists from Japan to Newi, City Switch will be several days of fascinating guest lectures, four days of intensive workshops for ANYONE who wants to join in and work with a group to create a city installation, then the 27th the works will be installed in the city!

"The CitySwitch Lab transfers people between cities to collaborate on the creative activation of urban spaces." so says the CitySwitch website

This week of fun in the inner city of Newcastle is connected to the lovely ReNew Newcastle initiaitve.

Fractal Furniture

I am currently wrtiting papers about fractals and architecture thus I came upon this delicious table, which is a proper geometric mathematical fractal in 3D form. Cool.


The design is by WertelOberfell in Belgium, who say:
"Fractal Table is a table which derives from studies into fractal growth patterns. Treelike stems grow into smaller branches until they get very dense towards the top. Fractal Table, developed by Platform Wertel Oberfell together with Matthias Bär, is impossible to manufacture unless rapid prototyped.The table is a single piece SLA made in epoxy resin."



and I found the bait on MoCo LoCo , a The Modern Design And Architecture Web Magazine from Taiwan.. and from my short stay in Taiwan and poke around at the Yun Lin design school, there is some fun and very clever design coming out of Taiwan too!