http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:25:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/london-street-no-sidewalk.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:35:03 +0000 PSFK walks along an urban experiment in neighborhood planning.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/transit-map-circuit-board-posters.html Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:07:44 +0000 John Breznicky's designs re-imagine how we experience cities through their transportation networks. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/optical-illusion-street-art.html Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:17:11 +0000 Isidro Blasco's Deconstructing Ways in an art intervention that inspires more imaginative relationships with a city's geography.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/city-models-recycled-material.html Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:36:32 +0000 An urban planner in Long Beach is trying to make his craft more sustainable and accessible by turning the modeling process into a local art project.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/mit-releases-toolbox-for-urban-network-analysis.html Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:47:07 +0000 The new urban planning software will help architects and designers build in cities.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/can-the-vertical-urban-factory-return-to-our-cities-headlines.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:20:53 +0000 In a new article the idea of reimagining the design of our urban factory spaces is explored.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/place-pulse-brings-a-collaborative-image-to-the-city.html Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:47:05 +0000 A new urban interface uses social reaction to judge urban spaces, creating a new experience of city life.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/car-free-suburbs-promote-active-and-happy-living.html Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:06:56 +0000 This new urbanist movement would have suburbanites using public transportation, bicycling and walking more.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/swiss-city-fights-litter-with-trash-can-games.html Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:02:06 +0000 A urban renewal project, was restarted this summer in an attempt to motivate people to keep their city clean through the gamification of recycling.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/biking-in-cities-lessons-from-europe-headlines.html Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:03:32 +0000 To create a thriving bike culture in America’s cities, people must begin to view bicycling as Europeans do — not just as a way of exercising, but as a serious form of urban mass transportation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/dont-take-the-stairs-take-the-slide.html Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:54:17 +0000 A new outdoor installation gives commuters a little jolt of happiness in the often gloomy morning ride by putting park slides on train platforms.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/data-from-taxis-propels-public-transit-problem-solving.html Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:05:26 +0000 A look at taxi pick-up and drop-off points as a useful tool to understand urban mobility.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/psfk-conference-nyc-highlights-new-york-city-as-soccer-club-strategic-design-and-platform.html Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:04:25 +0000 On April 8, 2011, PSFK held its fifth annual conference celebrating new ideas. The audience spanned creatives across advertising, design, marketing and technology listening to various speakers, each emitting the inspiration curated each day on PSFK.com.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/singapore-experienced-through-real-time-data.html Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:41:34 +0000 Does 'Live Singapore!' and other urban data projects help us understand our cities better?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/what-it-means-to-reach-7-billion-video.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:28:59 +0000 In the year 1800 the world held one-billion people on its surface. A mere two-hundred and ten years later and the global population is set to reach a massive seven-billion people. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/urban-codemakers-rezoning-melbourne-through-play.html Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:00:28 +0000 The 'Micronation of Ludea' are a group of three 'guilds' located in Melbourne where 'language and culture are generated via play.']]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/civic-input-stickers-pics.html Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:15:39 +0000 Designer Candy Chang's 'I Wish This Was' project offers a simple tool to help the residents of New Orleans share their opinions on the state of the city.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/tiny-design-pushes-the-limits-of-mircro-architechture.html Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:53:46 +0000 What would living within a nine-foot building look and feel like?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/exploring-life-in-vertical-suburbs-around-the-world.html Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:47:20 +0000 An all-web documentary allow visitors to explore the modern urban world, through the lives of people living in the low-income highrises of global cities. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/monocloumn-the-empty-stadiums-south-africa%e2%80%99s-white-elephants.html Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:40:04 +0000 What should a city do with a football stadium no one uses, sitting on prime land in the centre of town?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/the-solitary-life-of-cranes-exploring-the-invisible-life-of-a-city.html Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:35:57 +0000 A short film about construction workers who are perched atop lofty machines that give them a unique view of life around them.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/sms-led-soup-draft.html Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:00:26 +0000 An art project inspired by street food and local electronics manufacturers aims to help inspire positive new ideas for the social infrastructure of two cities.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/a-soundscape-mapping-of-the-entire-united-kingdom.html Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:27:47 +0000 The British Library aims to produce a crowdsourced map of the UK’s acoustic ecology]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/bmw-guggenheim-lab-a-mobile-urban-forum.html Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:43:05 +0000 A special symposium that will travel to global cities to involve their citizens in addressing issues affecting their life. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/pics-when-animals-walked-the-earth.html Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:24:48 +0000 Artist Shuichi Nakano's paintings look at urban planning from the perspective of Godzilla. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/hoodr-a-hyper-local-platform-for-low-income-immigrant-neighborhoods.html Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:48:16 +0000 Hoodr is a hyper-local community platform built to strengthen the social fabric of marginalized areas, providing its denizens a means to debate and express local events and opinions while combating the often one-sided picture portrayed by the media.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/monocolumn-the-trouble-with-animal-instincts.html Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:29:47 +0000 Creating a new capital city is not easy. Roads must be built, utilities organised and housing constructed. For the government of South Sudan, which is set to become an independent country following a referendum early next year, the task is even harder.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/iconic-urban-design-in-sudan.html Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:04:08 +0000 An optimistic plan to create unusual animal and fruit shaped cities.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/how-public-transportation-improves-communities.html Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:27:19 +0000 APTA's study looks at the tangential benefits of public transportation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/transforming-liminal-spaces.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:57:05 +0000 A public corn maze operates as a stop-gap measure for unused real estate in Amsterdam.]]>