The BMW Guggenheim Lab is expanding its exploration of privacy and public space in cities with this week?s launch of a new online interactive, Public/Private. The feature is an extension of two research projects conducted over the past seven months as part of the BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai. Show More Summary
David van der Leer, who with Maria Nicanor developed and headed the curatorial team of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, will take the helm at Van Alen Institute beginning May 6. The NYC-based nonprofit architectural organization, whose mission...Show More Summary
MUMBAI.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab, in collaboration with Mumbai Environmental Social Network (MESN), today announced the winning entries for ?Rethinking Kala Nagar Traffic Junction,? a call for innovative proposals to redesign one of Mumbai?s most congested transportation hubs. Show More Summary
The BMW Guggenheim Lab, that UFO of urban experimentation that took up residence in New York City and Berlin, has just published a helpful guide to the most recent trends in city activity. Here are some of the major trends contained therein.
MUMBAI.- Today, Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Frank-Peter Arndt, member of the Board of Management, BMW AG, announced that the BMW Guggenheim Lab will open in Mumbai on December 9, 2012, and will operate through January 20, 2013. Show More Summary
A project of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Dynamic Connections is an interactive cycle map of Berlin.
The problem with cycling in a big city is that many maps are outdated, and certain routes aren’t exactly ‘cyclist-safe’. With this in mind, BMW Guggenheim Lab and Lab City Project have created ‘Dynamic Connections’ – a crowd-sourced bike map of information for cyclists in Berlin. The map was created for German cyclists in order [...]
This content is brought to you by GOOD, with the support of the BMW Guggenheim Lab In June, GOOD and the BMW Guggenheim Lab teamed up to announce the project Transform a Public Place, a call for ideas on how to make a public space in your city more comfortable. Show More Summary
This content is brought to you by the BMW Guggenheim Lab Before I make my way to Mumbai—the next stop on the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s journey—I will be visiting Naples to report on the sixth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF), from September 2-7. Show More Summary
BERLIN can breathe a sigh of relief. The BMW Guggenheim Lab, a well-meaning project to heighten urban consciousness, has struck camp after six action-packed weeks and moved on: next stop Mumbai. When this prefabricated centre, designed...Show More Summary
This content is brought to you by GOOD, with the support of the BMW Guggenheim Lab A month ago, GOOD and the BMW Guggenheim Lab teamed up to announce the project Transform a Public Place, a call for ideas on how to make a public space in your city more comfortable. Show More Summary
NEW YORK, NY.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin has concluded its six weeks of programs exploring issues of urban life, with a focus on the importance of ?doing and making? to activate change. The Lab, which operated from June 15 to July 29, was located in Prenzlauer Berg in the Pfefferberg complex. Show More Summary
This content is brought to you by GOOD, with the support of the BMW Guggenheim Lab A month ago, GOOD and the BMW Guggenheim Lab teamed up to announce the project Transform a Public Place, a call for ideas on how to make a public space in your city more comfortable. Show More Summary
This content is brought to you by GOOD, with the support of the BMW Guggenheim Lab A month ago, GOOD and the BMW Guggenheim Lab teamed up to announce the project Transform a Public Place, a call for ideas on how to make a public space in your city more comfortable. Show More Summary
So I’m back from my time in Berlin at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. As announced previously, I was there to give a talk about how perception works, and how cities control our perception. If you’re a regular mindhacks.com reader nothing I said would have been earth-shattering – it was a tour through some basics of [...]
Photo: BMW Guggenheim Lab/Flickr via AOL Real Estate Hey, Mayor Bloomberg, you and your new NYC "micro houses" (and other similarly sized 250- to 300-square-foot mansions can step aside: there now exists in the world a house that measures one-square-meter....
This content is brought to you by the BMW Guggenheim Lab Just how small is the smallest place you’ve ever spent the night? As of last weekend, my answer is “one square meter.” For one night, I slept in a house that was hand-made, portable, and about the size of your average phone booth. Show More Summary
How would you transform a public space in your city to make it more comfortable? The BMW Guggenheim Lab, freshly installed in Berlin (the second stop on the project’s six-year global tour), wants to know. The joint initiative of the Solomon R. Show More Summary
This content was produced by GOOD with the support of BMW Guggenheim Lab the OBJECTIVE How would you transform a public space in your city to make it more comfortable? Send your ideas for creating a more comfortable public space through...Show More Summary
BERLIN.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab opened in Berlin, the second stop on the project?s six-year global tour. Offering free programs from June 15 to July 29, 2012, the BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin is a temporary public space and online forum encouraging open dialogue about issues related to urban life. Show More Summary