‘There’s land if you want it’: how a hand-drawn map is transforming vacant lots in Brooklyn

596 Acres is a non-profit organisation that seeks for community empowerment and sustained local action. A team of design, law and information technology professionals aims to help citizens transform vacant public land in the city of New York into community

How images shape our cities

“When we make things visible, we make them public and subject to debate. Urban images not only offer insights to help analyse and understand cities, but also point to ways of radically altering their futures.” Could maps lead to more

The power of digital mapping

“in a place where no one has a legal right to anything and everything is claimed by force, the map provided some assurance — if not of actual ownership, then at least of a shared record of the past that

Maps of America’s Racial Segregation

http://www.wired.com/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you/

City Craft event : gamification for area development

As part of the exhibition MozaiekBrabant, this event was about gamification for participatory urban & area development. A mixed crowd of game designers, spatial designers, urbanists, architects and developers gathered to find common ground in a debate around the potentiality