City of Sydney is presenting a talk next month titled ‘Solving Sydney’s Housing Affordability crisis‘. Here’s the blurb: “Sydney homes are among the priciest in the world. It costs nearly 5 times more to buy a house or apartment today than … Continue reading
This August, while Yurt Empire took a well-deserved rest, Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan spent a week in residence at the Summer School for Applied Autonomy, Berlin, doing some hands-on research into what it takes to live off the grid … Continue reading
Yurt Empire artist Tessa Zettel is currently on assignment in Belgrade, as a guest of Belgrade – The Toolkit Project, which is part of the Urban Incubator initiative. Tessa is accompanying Marjetica Potrc, whose team of students from Hamburg University … Continue reading
Read a nice summary here of the Practical Utopias summit held late September, 2013 on the faraway shores of Istria, written by participant Maja Kuzmanovic (Foam, Brussels). Described as “a site-specific reality game inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s World Game simulation”, Practical Utopias aimed to be … Continue reading
New from Yurt Empire’s Cartography Dept., as published in the forthcoming atlas-catalogue for Baadlands: An Atlas of Experimental Cartography “Yurt Empire treats cartography as another space of occupation, as a device for looking, for positioning and for remaking. The map depicted in this atlas … Continue reading
Next month Yurt Empire Ambassadors Tessa & Sumu will be spending a week in Berlin as residents of this excellent new project by Berlin Farmlab artist Valentina Karga. The ‘Summer School for Applied Autonomy’ is: “a research initiative interested in capturing … Continue reading