Teaching Children about Urban Design and Architecture
As Whitney Houston famously sang, "Children are our future/ Teach them well and let them lead the way." Kids learn about science, math, health and even home ec in school. However, little is taught about building »
The Bread Renaissance
Although most modern breads are made from the same basic grains used in antiquity (oats, barley, rice, rye, corn, and, of course, wheat), our breads are often white breads. In other words, they have a much higher content of starch, which is essentially sugar. The »
RedBall Project at London 2012: Interview with Kurt Perschke
In making a public work I am very conscious of the history of sculpture in public places, its origins in monuments, and how that leads - for better or worse - into a »
Child's Own Brings Kids' Drawings to Life
As children, we all used to draw fantastic creatures and dream that they would one day come to life. Now, Child's Own Studio (and other custom soft toy creators) are making that dream come true. Parents can send in »
How Munch?! The Scream Sells for $120m at Auction
[/caption] Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's 1895 masterpiece, The Scream, was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder yesterday for a record $119,922,500 at an auction in Sotheby's of New York City. Bidding for »
Six of Best British Festivals for Feeding your Brain
Inspired by intellectual gatherings like TED and SXSWi on the other side of the Atlantic, 2012 is proving to be the year where the British ideas festival scene has really hit its stride. New (and not so new) events »
The Colourful World of Spain’s Cuellimangui: Street Artist
Cuellimangui comes from a small city in South East Spain (Orihuela). His complicated patchworks of organic shapes bring life to inanimate objects and the abstract forms »
Raising a glass for Palestine’s Oktoberfest
As we a enjoy pretty damn good cold beer – a welcomed refreshment given the 35 degree heat – Maria Khoury shows us around the small factory explaining the milling, boiling and fermenting process used to create »
An Ideal Future, Or My Bucket List Of Change
Happy birthday, Urban Times. Here’s to working together to turn our bucket lists into a shiny new inspirational world. Thanks for letting me walk, talk, and share with you. I’m looking forward to a whole lot »
Magical Rhythms
Music sooths the soul. Never has a truer phrase been spoken. Throughout the world, all groups of people have expressed their innermost passions in the form of rhythms. The sheer abundance of musical instruments truly boggles the mind, not only for their numbers, but »
Pamphleting Our Street Walls With Art
Pamphlet is a new platform for artists, organisations and galleries to communicate to the public. High quality posters are mounted onto pubic walls (legally) in the hopes of engaging thousands of people everyday and »
Handbags Made From Bottletops: Ethical and Stylish
While visiting Uganda in 2002, Cameron Saul discovered a wire frame handbag made by local craftspeople using recycled bottle tops. Struck by the idea that this could appeal to the haute couture market, he developed the »
Urban Sharing Experiment
If you saw a neatly wrapped package abandoned on the sidewalk, with writing on it inviting you to open it, would you take the risk? A Belgian band, PSY’AVIAH, has been leaving tens of parcels all over the city of Antwerp encouraging passerbyers to take the plunge »
Weird and Wonderful National Favourites
This article is written in honor of Food Revolution Day 2012. To celebrate food revolution day (which happened yesterday!), we’ve pulled together a selection of national dishes from around the world that are both »
Health Suffers Because of Stress [Infographic]
Stress seems to be an everyday occurrence for a lot of people nowadays. The strains of everyday life are brought to the forefront in the following infographic produced by HeartMath. It outlines the more common ailments »