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On June 19, three and a half weeks after MovingCities kickstarted research and design for Beijing's short and intense two-day Line13 Redux-workshop, the students of the School of Architecture and Community Design (University of South Florida, Tampa) presented their first analysis and design proposals. An overview.

On May 25 and 26, 2009, MovingCities was invited by Shannon Bassett, Assistant Professor at School of Architecture and Community Design | University of South Florida, Tampa, to give a short design workshop. After dealing in last years' 'Line13 Superlinearity'-workshop with the Northern section of Beijing's elevated subway line, 'Line13 Redux' focussed on the intersection of the Badaling Expressway and Line13 as the locale for research and intervention. ...

With 38 participants hailing from 18 different countries, the City Move Interdesign Workshop attracted a wide variety of designers, architects, consultants, academics and artists from all stamps. A first introduction to the work of Gavin Baxter, Dia Batal, Tony Fry, Nikola Uzunovski, Aleksander Petrov and Lance Rake.

The second week of the City Move Interdesign-workshop mainly consisted of fine-tuning and structuring the concepts around which each group were working. After a week in which some groups tried to find a common ground (which not seldom led to meta-discursive situations in which the prime question was "how to talk about what we want to talk about"), there were short presentations, visits from the local community, interviews ...

In search for a location where a new city could be build, the Green Group went exploring the area North of Malmberget. On March 27, a 250 kilometers road trip to the border of the Gällivare and Kiruna region ended in the a small city called Svappavaara where another LKAB mine was found. LKAB is an international high-tech minerals group, one of the world’s leading producers of upgraded ...

There is a hole in the city of Malmberget. Since a couple of decades the underground mining activity created an expanding crater in the heart of this small city. Due to its growth, some drastic measures have been taken in the past; the population that once lived around the pit had to be moved, but not only people moved, but also their houses. Snail-wise (both in speed of ...

On Monday March 23, the City Move Interdesign workshop was launched. On our first day we were informed about the workshop assignment and undertook our first fieldtrip. Destination was the city of Malmberget and the mines that are hollowing out the grounds underneath its territory.