urban exploration
Who doesn't love a field trip? I know, I know, the arctic winds of late make urban exploration less of a priority. But the post-holiday winter cityscape offers some singular opportunities to check out what makes this city what it is. Our friends at WNYC Culture have invited the Omnibus to share some field trip… 
Here on Urban Omnibus, we are all about urban exploration, maps and interdisciplinary approaches to examining and designing our physical, urban environment. Leni Schwendinger is a designer and artist who works with light to combine all three, always asking the crucial, and often unasked, question: what happens to this environment after…
Saturday afternoon, a group of Omnibus readers, WNYC listeners, and assorted unbuilt city enthusiasts gathered in Bryant Park to listen to Museum of the Phantom City designers Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder talk about how their app works, what happens when architects collaborate with app developers, and their curatorial process.
The app, thanks to Irene…
11 03 09 • by Rachel Aland • architectural history, iPhone, live event, locative media, meet-up, mobile media, public art, recap, urban exploration
People are pretty psyched about the Museum of the Phantom City, the iPhone app that Brett Snyder and Irene Cheng developed and discussed with us here. So we're going to get together with Brett, Irene and our WNYC friends this Saturday, October 31, to explore the app and talk about…
10 26 09 • by Urban Omnibus • iPhone, locative media, manhattan, meet-up, mobile media, public art, to do, urban exploration, WNYC
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Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder share the inspiration behind their iPhone app and pose questions sparked by their research. Read their story and then go tour the unbuilt city.
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Two weeks ago I came across Sarah Nelson Wright's compelling statement about Brooklyn Makes published here on Urban Omnibus. A thoughtful text for a contemplative project. I stopped by when she presented the project recently on the streets of North Brooklyn. Wright made three short videos of three different manufacturers in the Williamsburg-Greenpoint…
10 19 09 • by Kirsten Hively • art review, brooklyn, greenpoint, industry, public art, review, street, to do, urban exploration, williamsburg
For the past year I have been working on a project called Brooklyn Makes, a site-specific video installation in the Greenpoint Williamsburg Industrial Zone. On October 9th and 10th, streets that normally seem dark and deserted at night will be activated with three large, colorful video projections revealing the highly skilled and creative labor that takes place inside during the day. Captured inside each business, the videos and sounds bring North Brooklyn’s hidden labor onto the public streets...
10 05 09 • by Sarah Nelson Wright • brooklyn, greenpoint, industry, public art, street, to do, urban exploration, williamsburg
Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder are launching a mobile media project this weekend that allows people to browse proposed, visionary, but unbuilt designs for New York City on your iPhone. (Reason #172 why I love having an iPhone.) Museum of the Phantom City: OtherFutures is a project Cheng…
We're always tickled by the weird and wonderful places Omnibus content pops up across the world wide web, but especially flattered when posts beget sophisticated analysis and commentary. Ulrich Franzen's Street, made in 1969, spurred some passionate commentary when we posted it back in February, but just this…
08 28 09 • by Urban Omnibus • critics, environment, psychogeography, public art, street, to do, urban exploration
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Interactive design student Sara Bremen investigates the NYC Info Center, designed by WXY and Local Projects, and some of its implications for information design, geographic awareness, and the shifting distinction between tourist and local.
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