Category: berlin

Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion

April 15, 2012 by thornet

The [99% Invisible](http://99percentinvisible.org/post/20439848501/episode-51-the-arsenal-of-exclusion#disqus_thread) podcast recently featured an episode about **[The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion](http://arsenalofexclusion.blogspot.de/2012/04/arsenal-of-exclusion-inclusion-on-99.html)**, a glossary of the many visible and invisible tactics used by urban planners to bring people together — or keep them apart. From armrests on public benches to Hamsterdam, the…

Awesome Foundation Berlin: ACPad Guitar

February 4, 2012 by thornet

A modded acoustic guitar snapped up the most recent [Awesome Foundation Berlin](http://awesomefoundation.org/chapters/berlin) grant. The €1000 cash was handed over in a brown paper bag to Rainer from [RobinSukroso](http://www.robinsukroso.de/) to further develop his **stringed axe meets drum machine, the [acpad guitar](http://www.robinsukroso.de/?page_id=43).** Rainer spent the last 3…

Politics

February 4, 2012 by thornet

One of the joys of working out of [betahaus](http://betahaus.de) is that whirling, creative projects unexpectedly sweep you up into their world — even if for a second. Last week a few betahausers & I joined in for a scene in Diego Agullo and Dmitry Paranyushkin’s…

Iron Blogger Berlin

December 18, 2011 by thornet

Inspired by [Joi](http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/11/22/iron-blogger–.html), who in turn was inspired by [Mako](http://iron-blogger.mako.cc/), my jacket-twin [Nicole](http://www.antischokke.de/2011/12/18/ich-werde-iron-bloggerin-echt-jetzt/) & I are tying ourselves to the mast and taking up the Iron Blogger challenge. The set-up? >Iron Blogger is a blogging and drinking club. The rules are pretty simple: > *…