The Street Art Museum in Saint Petersburg is a remarkable place in many ways. It’s exactly there where it is needed most. It is making the rights statements. It’s new and it’s exciting. It’s not a museum though. It has the potential to give the word museum a new meaning. It’s a laboratory. A laboratory of… Read More
I went to Recife in Brazil to discuss a future park. Read More
Just south of Leblon, not so very far away from the center of Rio de Janeiro, on a mountain side overlooking the Atlantic Ocean lies a spectacular park. Mauro Quintanilha started to clean the site near the favela of Vidigal around 2006 when he became extremely frustrated with the smell, the sight and the whole… Read More
It’s a song that brings you in a certain mood. It was made in the time that video clips were not common at all. Michael Nesmith made a clip, experimenting a new medium and wrote a song to it. You can feel the breeze, you can hear the ocean, it gives you a longing to go there.… Read More
Eight park managers from different cities around Moscow joined me on a trip to see some parks. We decided to go to the Ruhr area first. The fragmented landscape out there gives some interesting observations and comparisons with the landscape of the region around Moscow. That is what struck me some months ago when I… Read More
Most of my blogs are about attraction. What makes a city attractive, what makes a project attractive. What can we – working in cities and projects – do to accomplish that attraction? The mental map is a method to make us see the differences. Our mental map is the two dimensional result of the world as we experience it.… Read More
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