Ahi Nicaraguita | Leon 2012

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world.

These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually.

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Haitian Documentary LIFT UP Commemorates Two-Year Anniversary of Haitian Earthquake

Starting January 12th, to help commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, we will be having a week-long, commemorative online release during which award winning Haitian documentary film LIFT UP will be available online and for free at http://liftupmovie.com/. 

For LIFT UP, January 12th also marks the end of a successful, year-long international film festival tour during which LIFT UP was honored to receive the Amsterdam Film Fest Van Gogh Award, Documentary Directing and the Williamsburg Film Fest Outstanding Achievement, Feature Documentary award. 

In the coming month, keep on the lookout for the wider online release through Amazon on Demand, iTunes, Hulu, and Netflix streaming.

Profits will be donated to help the rebuilding process in Haiti. 

Las postales de Medellín se han desplazado a sectores de la ciudad que históricamente permanecieron ocultos de la imagen exportada al resto del mundo, en los polos que han dado lugar a las más radicales transformaciones. A través de un nuevo modo de hacer arquitectura orientada a la integración social en una red de espacios públicos vulnerables, se aleja del ranking de las ciudades más violentas de Latinoamérica. Medellín deja de asociarse con sus índices de inseguridad para construir una nueva narrativa, introduciendo el metrocable asociado a espacios públicos de innovación y la aproximación a una arquitectura que posee altas consideraciones sobre el entorno natural y construido.

One-third of Earth’s soil is degraded because of unsustainable farming methods, which could lead to a major food crisis.

Late last year, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the state of the world’s soil and water resources. The bottomline: 25 per cent of the world’s food-producing soils are highly degraded or are rapidly being degraded. Add to that other soils which they say are degrading “moderately”, and the area under threat amounts to one-third of the Earth’s endowment of cropland.

“To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow,” wrote playwright Eugene Ionesco in 1959. 

Ionesco’s metaphor may be violent, but with good reason. Breaking from our usual habits is difficult and often painful – requiring not just willpower and stamina but also the courage to take risks, to fail, and to pick ourselves up again.

1,000 recycled doors are enough for the South Korean architect Choi Jeong-Hwa to transform a dull ten-story building into a fresh-looking landmark. This ‘skyscraper’ in the center of the Korean capital Seoul has become a pixelated landmark, that tells the story of thousand people who once chose a fitting color for a door in their apartment. 

In order to contribute to cities that use their resources efficient, 2012Architecten has been investigating processes that empower local exchange and production. When we want to transform cities into smart environments that behave like ecosystems we need program and buildings that provide an alternative to transporting our resources, products and components around the globe. These connectors between wasteflows and resource demands are called Cyclifiers