– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020"/>
Could workplaces give space to schools?
– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020
The education fragility of marginals has always been a challenging issue for any state. The developing nations have an extreme shortage of resource…
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020"/>
Z/Room Society
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020
This image is a “still” of the first step of the quarantine period. The anxiety of the unexpected state of suddenly being alone, forced to be inert…
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020"/>
Children’s hopes and well-being
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020
This is a photo I took from my window of a group of children playing football in the space in between two buildings in Ramadan during night curfew …
– from Ramin Rahman, Kabul, 23.05.2020"/>
The fearless city
– from Ramin Rahman, Kabul, 23.05.2020
My name is Ramin Rahman. I am a freelance photographer in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. After one and a half months of quarantine, I left home fo…
– from Taher Abdel-Ghani, Cairo, 20.05.2020"/>
The spontaneity of the lights
– from Taher Abdel-Ghani, Cairo, 20.05.2020
I was invited for a break-of-a-fast meal (Iftar) on the rooftop of a friend of mine. We did not have a table, but we used the reinforced concrete c…
– from Friederike Landau, Berlin/Vancouver, 19.05.2020"/>
Pandemic (post-)politics
– from Friederike Landau, Berlin/Vancouver, 19.05.2020
is the pandemic infecting us with post-politics
or how long has this virus in politics lingered
is passivity or printing money the winning face …
– from Safa Ashoub, Berlin, 07.05.2020"/>
Ramadan in corona times
– from Safa Ashoub, Berlin, 07.05.2020
Berlin – March 23rd
At the peak of Covid-19 … food shops are offering free products due to closure, disinfectants are triple the price, U-Bahns …
– from Nataliya Sukhova (Transstruktura architects) and Anton (10 Years old), Berlin, 20.05.2020"/>
Open spaces or cubicles?
– from Nataliya Sukhova (Transstruktura architects) and Anton (10 Years old), Berlin, 20.05.2020
In the past few months I shared my home office with my son’s home school. One day we drew a couple of pictures together that illustrated our ideas …
– from Julian Dobson, Sheffield, 19.05.2020"/>
A reward for resilience
– from Julian Dobson, Sheffield, 19.05.2020
My weekend run usually takes me west from my home, away from suburban Sheffield to the moorland that gives rise to the city’s tumbling streams and …
– from Kevin Bennett, Pittsburgh, 10.05.2020"/>
Post-pandemic design and well-being
– from Kevin Bennett, Pittsburgh, 10.05.2020
This is a photo of a sensational rainbow that flashed before my eyes on a recent run to fetch some food and supplies. Unexpected and gone-too-soon,…
– from Camilla Lade, Vancouver, 07.05.2020"/>
Shifting in place
– from Camilla Lade, Vancouver, 07.05.2020
The city is quieter, the birds are chirping, and the streets are clear of cars. As our government aims to increase sidewalk widths through ‘tactica…
– from Patrick Düblin, Basel, 11.05.2020"/>
Borderland: Drift interrupted
– from Patrick Düblin, Basel, 11.05.2020
A stone’s throw away from my apartment lies the river Rhine. It naturally parts Switzerland and France from Germany. The city of Basel, however, ex…
– from Isabella Rossen, Amsterdam, 11.05.2020"/>
The local retreat
– from Isabella Rossen, Amsterdam, 11.05.2020
A postcard from a retreat: Usually this would imply a card sent from a location far away from the hustle and bustle of our “everyday life”. People …
Editorial"/>
The Space of the (Re)Public
Editorial
In October 2011 a group of around 2000–3000 protesters gathered around Paternoster Square in London, shrouded in the shadow cast by St Paul’s Cathe…
– Christina Petkopoulou"/>
Athens Report: a collective archive of life and protest
– Christina Petkopoulou
athensreport.org is an interactive digital platform that maps the urban space through the route of trolley bus No. 11. It collects and archives vid…
– Anthony Maniscalco"/>
A little island on Pier 55: urban austerity and the eclipse of publicly made public space?
– Anthony Maniscalco
They say history is written by the winners. When public space is constructed and regulated at the behest of park conservancies, public-private part…
– Sonja Jankov"/>
Rooftop of the Total Palace
– Sonja Jankov
Total palaces were built all over socialist countries mostly during the 1980s, although examples can be found in prior decades. Originating from sp…
– Stephanie Newcomb"/>
Coopelluvia: facilitating urban water commoning
– Stephanie Newcomb
Southern California—specifically Los Angeles—is no stranger to water scarcity. To sustain a growing population, a hyper-centralized infrastructural…
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki"/>
Pocket parks as spaces of “Re-public”: the experience of the Alexandrou Svolou initiative
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki
It is very common in modern cities to find, within the urban fabric, forgotten/neglected parts,which are pieces of land that have either been abandoned in relation to an earlier…
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno"/>
A street-explorative and interactive-designing laboratory
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno
The current state of participatory planning in Italy tells us that, until now there are few aware and empowered experiences of urban transformative processes…