The Marathon of Makers
José Gómez-Márquez is the first Lab Team member on deck to direct the Lab's programs. As his focus is on enabling every-day citizens with technology to hack the city and make their own solutions to...
View ArticleMaking the City: A Look Back at the Berlin Lab
Throughout the Lab’s six-week run, the process of using one’s hands and “making” became a means of empowering the Lab’s visitors—more than 27,000 of them—to create change and shape their own urban...
View ArticleFriday Links: GE Takes on Making, Michael Graves on Hand Drawing, the Beauty...
We’re excited that the conversation about "making," a topic discussed heavily at the Lab in Berlin, is continuing through an initiative of General Electric’s called GE Garages.
View ArticleFriday Links: New York’s Laser Rainbow, Urban Farming, a City Jungle Gym, and...
Two light installations illuminated New York’s skyline this week.
View ArticleNotes from a Neighborhood Called Cuba
In a video inspired by Argentine art critic Marta Traba and shot in Guayaquil, Lupe Alvarez and Eliana Hidalgo explore Ecuadorian art, discussing among other things the contribution of Eduardo Kingman...
View ArticleContrabienal: Art, Politics, and Latin American Identity in 1970s New York
Aimé Iglesias Lukin revisits Contrabienal, an artist’s book that called for a boycott of the 1971 São Paulo Biennial, and documented the influence of politics on Latin American artists in 1960s and...
View ArticleDark Clouds on the Horizon? Camagüey and Havana
Elvis Fuentes visits the FIVAC festival in Camagüey, meets artist Marlon Portales in Havana, describes a new studio initiative, delineates the subtleties of the Havana Biennial and Zona Franca, and...
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