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Following the principles of street furniture design, Bouroullec Brothers design a mobile kiosk for Parisian public engagement. Check it out and leave us your views…

ALTO Design's new Équiparc DELTA street furniture collection impresses with the simplicity of its lines, which evokes both robustness and sophistication...

Concrete design studio use post modernism and pastiche elements to recreate Asian street-food themed restaurant in Amsterdam. Check it out and tell us what you think of it…

Delhi's new WIP st+art project is yet another step towards empowering the society via art. How far are we succeeding in this mission? Check out this link and leave us your views…

One of the most fascinating things to come out of the current We Are 99%/Occupy Wall Street protests is the We Are 99% Tumblr.  At the site, people hold up signs that explain their current circumstances, and it tells the story of a whole range of Americans struggling in the Lesser Depression.  It is highly recommended. DATA The site features pictures of individuals holding their signs, and occasionally the tumblr reproduces the text of the signs themselves underneath the image as html text.  Sometimes the text under the image is blank, sometimes it is a different message, but often it is the sign itself. In order to get a slightly better empirical handle on this important tumblr, I created a script designed to read all of the pages and parse out the html text on the site.  It doesn't read the images (can anyone in the audience automate calls to an OCR?), just the html text.  After collecting all the text on all the pages, the code then goes through it to try to find interesting points. It's a fun exercise, pointing out things I wouldn't have seen otherwise.  For instance, I found this adorable little rascal, pictured below, mucking up the algorithm, as the first version of the code assumed all the ages would have two digits.  I found that he, and the sign his mom made for him as a confessional to her son, hit me a ton harder than any of the more direct signs of despair in this economy:

As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding -- indeed, an integral part of it.

A contemporary interpretation of "art as social messenger" calls to mind the historic significance of art and architecture as beacons of cultural ethos. Check out the interesting light installations in Quebec City and leave us your views…

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture brings the larger-than-life cinematic experience to the streets of Paris with their refurbishment of the Alésia Cinema and its new pixelating facade. Check it out and leave us your views

100architects designs a #public #art #installation, #PaintDrop to vivify a mixed-use development space and engage passers-by by guiding them to the new #open-air LifeHub@Daning #retail space in #Shanghai. Read on to know more

Every city has a story to tell, its narratives hidden in every nook and lane. Honest and expressive, #Studio Archohm's metamorphosis of #Hussainabad in #Lucknow rightfully prioritises its culture, history, its people and their pure connection…