Last week Craig and Jen from Yurt Empire took part in the latest in late night library nights spreading across the City of Sydney. The title of this chat fest was Sketches … Continue reading
Yurt Empire at LATE NIGHT LIBRARY GLEBE: SKETCHES OF LAND

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Last week Craig and Jen from Yurt Empire took part in the latest in late night library nights spreading across the City of Sydney. The title of this chat fest was Sketches … 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
In association with the exhibition User Generated Architecture, Christof Mayer and Andreas Krauth, from raumlabor berlin, will be running an intensive 2 day Generator Workshop in Sydney. And some of us from Yurt Empire will be participating! The Generator Workshops are international, experimental … 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
The map on the left shows which bits of Sydney have access to some form of public transport within 400 metres walk. The map on the right shows which bits of Sydney have access to some form of public transport … 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
Earlwood Farm: an urban agriculture/sharehouse project on 1018 m2 of rented land.
“We all love it here. It’s like a bohemian theme park. And we all look the part. We all get some support and encouragement for doing what we do… [while the rest of the country is undergoing a process of Talibanization]”