OFF OLYMPIAD – London culture 2012
02.12.2012
Kick-starting a new generation of public spaces: Canning Town Caravanserai (CTC) lies close to the Olympic venues and is expected to have both local and global impact, before, during and after the Olympic Games. This East London grass-roots project brings together community, art, enterprise,
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27.08.2012
In only a few days all the energy and excitement, the passion and the tumult of the games has drained from the Olympic Park: There is a melancholy silence over the olympic stadium. Des Smith, the head gardener of the Park, feels that it’s almost ghost-like: “There are phantoms of the
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19.08.2012
In the shadow of the short-lived ‘Coke Wall’, a collective of designers have transformed wall running the full length of a block in Hackney Wick into a community mural project celebrating the area’s industrial heritage.Mint Creams- painting in progressBreaking breadBread
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12.08.2012
Recently some of London’s biggest summer festivals had difficulties - and this not just out of festival fatigue. In Hyde Park Bruce Springsteen and Paul Mc Cartney were performing a raucous encore, at least until the promoters cut the power mid-song. Another one: The Bloc 2012 in London
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12.08.2012
Hackney Marshes, the spiritual home of amateur football, are being redeveloped as part of the Olympics. Not everyone is happy about it.The MarshesFor a major city, London has surprisingly few full size football pitches. And most of them are Hackney Marshes, a distant and bleak park - with 88
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11.08.2012
ONE hour before the Games officially were launched we gathered FOUR experts on urban planning, architecture, digitization, social design and creative economy to raise to them TEN questions about the ON and OFF Olympiad via TWITTER. Here are the participants: Cany Ash, Ash Sakula architects,
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11.08.2012
Will the London Olympics be where citizen journalism really takes off? It should be. Press coverage of the London Olympics has been controversial. Only one of the local newspapers around the Olympic Park has received official press accreditation, despite the huge impact the event will have on the
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05.08.2012
In the last week, a long-standing piece of graffiti by Sweet Toof covering the yard wall next to Hackney Wick station has undergone a transformation, much to the dismay of local residents and lovers of street art.The yard as it was...Coca-Cola, who are rather comically along with McDonalds’s
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05.08.2012
The Olympic Torch was produced by a collaboration of designers, architects and sculptors. Is working across sectors always more effective?Trained as a designer, a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and best known for his sculpture, London's Thomas Heatherwick is hot right now
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01.08.2012
A gentle breeze pulling the spectator through the gallery space of the Fridericianum - 'I Need Some Meaning I Can Memorise (The Invisible Pull)' by Ryan Gander at the dOCUMENTA(13). Supported by Lisson Gallery, one of the world's leading contemporary art
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