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Future Tense | ABC radio interview

movingcities — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:16:00 +0000

FutureTense | ABC National Radio FutureTense is a weekly half-hour podcast program aired on Australian ABC National Radio that takes a critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking. This week’s theme is “Urbanisation and our relationship with the city” and includes interviews with Adam Greenfield, Bert de Muynck, Professor Richard [...]

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City Move Workshop | participants

movingcities — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:47:47 +0000

Nikola Uzunovski | My Sunshine (Malmberget 2009) 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. Gavin [...]

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City Move Workshop | part IV

movingcities — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:31:51 +0000

The Sports Arena | Malmberget 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 [...]

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City Move Workshop | part III

movingcities — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:42:53 +0000

The Green Group | road trip Gällivare - Kiruna 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 [...]

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City Move Workshop | part II

movingcities — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:28:39 +0000

The Pit | Malmberget 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 [...]

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City Move Workshop | part I

movingcities — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:52:08 +0000

City-Move Workshop | visit to the open mine 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. Malmberget is [...]

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Stockholm >> Gällivare

movingcities — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:56:19 +0000

Robin Edman | chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) On Sunday March 22, all participants for the City Move Interdesign workshop gathered in Stockholms’ Arlanda airport. After a short introduction by Robin Edman, chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID), the group entered a small airplane which took us from [...]

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City Move Interdesign workshop | announcement

movingcities — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:40:26 +0000

City Move Interdesign Workshop During the coming two weeks MovingCities will be participating in the City Move Interdesign workshop in Gällivare, Sweden. In a partnership with Icsid, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) and the community of Gellivare, City Move Interdesign will be the main activity in a project about relocating people and societies. The [...]

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