We’ve been busy, and we’ve been hacked by medication spammers - which resulted in a broken site for a few days. But we kicked them out and the site is 95% up again. But now back to the architecture: expect a reinvigorated stream of posts!
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If you’ve thought that Dysturb is a bit quiet in terms of posts lately, please forgive us. We are growing through an exciting phase and our energy is poured into the many changes in our personal lives as well as into the direction of Dysturb itself. Over the past months, the core Dysturb writers of Claudia Strahl and Darrel Ronald and Thomas Stellmach have been moving around the world. Claudia relocated to Cologne, Germany; Darrel has relocated to Montréal, Canada; and Thomas has temporarily relocated to Aleppo, Syria. Given this shift, we asked ourselves how to go forward with Dysturb.Net.
Our conclusion is to grow the site to fit the team. Build a network of architects, urbanists and designers that can cover the design capitals around the globe with first-hand experiences and views into how design is embedded into our daily lives, daily cultures, and cities. In this sense, we will continue the strategy of Dysturb, but we will enlarge its geographical scope to cover more cities than just Rotterdam, where us core writers originally were located. Rotterdam has inscribed itself into this blog, and the architectural energy of the city was instrumental in our creation of this project and our desire to contribute to this debate. That said, we do plan to keep the calendar Rotterdam specific, because this fills a specific need locally; perhaps at some point we introduce local calendars, but for now we will not.
This is still an experiment, and we hope that you feel free to comment on our work, and its ability to share interesting and appropriate content. Of course, we do this for fun, and as I’ve written before, we aren’t CNN. To quote one of our original posts on the goal of Dysturb:
This website is our way to reflect, propose, challenge, get excited about, and SHARE the architecture world around us. We’ve made all the web 2.0 goodness available to you: you can view our pictures via our flickr page, you can subscribe to our links via delicious, you can hook our dates into your google calendar or integrate it in your ical. And there are RSS feeds of all our content, be it the articles, the photos, or the calendar events. But we’d love even more to hear what you think, so comment on our articles, send us that design that made you cry, or be a guest writer!
The core writers and editors are and will continue to be:
Thomas Stellmach (Rotterdam, NL + Aleppo, SY)
Darrel Ronald (Montréal, CA)
Martin Sobota (Rotterdam, NL)
Claudia Strahl (Cologne, DE)
We would like to already welcome these new writers and the list is growing:
Edgar Gonzales (Madrid, ES)
Cornelia Redeker (Munich, DE)
So that you know our direction, we are currently attracting writers in these cities:
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto, Zurich and wherever the architecture and urbanism content pours in from. If you feel the desire to be a part of this project, please feel free to contact us through the info page.
Taco’s new cooking site! (the image above is not Taco, but completely unrelated)
We recently found Taco Kuijers strangely familiar blog (5000 file requests - stealing all our source files - from the same IP within a few minutes don’t go unnoticed).
weekend is yours (photo: flickr-user chillhiro)
We proudly announce the dysturb podcast! Subscribe here
Direct iTunes link
Other applications: http://www.dysturb.net/category/podcast/feed
Expect project presentations, event recordings, interviews in the form of movies, mp3s and pdfs. So far the Associative Design movie and the Al Manakh launch recording are included.
UPDATE: Our podcast has been added to the itunes podcast register!
Welcome to dysturb.net, nice to see you here.
What is this site about? It is about Architecture & Urbanism, Design and Art - all the bits and pieces we stumble upon in the epicentre of the architecture empire. Apart from the latest news in the magazine, you can check out our event calendar, browse the creme de la creme of architecture-related bookmarks or see our hand-picked photo collection, complete with pictures from monday’s Al-Manakh presentation at the NAi. You can always access these pages via the navigation at the top of the page.
This website is our way to reflect, propose, challenge, get excited about, and SHARE the architecture world around us. We’ve made all the web 2.0 goodness available to you: you can view our pictures via our flickr page, you can subscribe to our links via delicious, you can hook our dates into your google calendar or integrate it in your ical. And there are RSS feeds of all our content, be it the articles, the photos, or the calendar events.
But we’d love even more to hear what you think, so comment on our articles, send us that design that made you cry, or be a guest writer!
Freckled Globe: recent dysturb visitors
Four months after launch, we welcome our visitors from all around the world. Thanks! And keep on spreading the word.
By the way, the big ball in South-East Europe is Bucharest. Why Bucharest? Only google analytics knows. Not long ago we knew each visitor by his name.
“approved for destruction” dysturb sticker
Dysturb core member Claudia recently moved from Rotterdam to Cologne, to join ASTOC, KCAP’s partner office in Germany. We’ll miss you, CS!
The picture above is a sample of a couple of stickers we’ve commissioned. You’ll find them soon all over Rotterdam, tagging buildings: a city wide Gault Millau of Architecture.
Tyrrenian Sea (© Hiroshi Sugimoto)
As our dear feed subscribers might have noticed, we’ve been tweaking our feeds (RSS: http://www.dysturb.net/feed/) recently - which led to a lot of double, triple and quadruple posting of the same articles. Sorry for that! We’ve found a solution for these darn special characters. Next in the tweaking queue are the calendar and photo page - expect some improvements soon.
While we’re at it - dysturb readers looking at our feed may also have missed the embedded movie of our recent post of the amazing Berlage master class presentations. Watch their Top-Solid magic here: http://www.dysturb.net/2007/associative-design-berlage/.
If you need some further architainment, why not visit CTTV’s myspace page - or Rem’s. In case you are in the transitional phase like everyone around me and ask yourself grand questions as ‘Which office?’ and ‘What city?’ you could look at wallpaper’s collection of the ‘most exciting architects of the world‘, and decide whether you agree. Then overlap the results with Monocle’s Top 20 liveable cities (login required).
Above photo is by Hiroshi Sugimoto, which I first discovered at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. See his tranquil and pure work at Hirshhorn or his own site. Unfortunately the small thumbnails only convey little of the beauty of his perfectionist imagery.
geolocation of dysturb users on 6 April 07
A screenshot of our statistics page from beginning of April - before we went beta. It is nice that we would be able to tell who is behind of each of these little icons. This will change, though. I’ll post more of these during our next steps until we go public - it will be interesting to see how the dysturb virus spreads.
dysturb.net was founded, designed and programmed in 2007 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It is the space where we think about that which excites us: links, pictures, files, lectures, stories and memories relating to visual culture, spatial culture, urban culture, and foremost architecture. dysturb.net is the shared mindscape of working architects in the global design capitals and our way to spread our digital love.
You are all welcome to support us, fill us in, spy on your office, contribute spontaneously, and tell us what rocks and sucks. Please don’t forget - we do this for fun, we aren’t CNN.
dysturb.net are:
Thomas Stellmach (t@dysturb.net), Rotterdam (NL);
Darrel Ronald (d@dysturb.net), Montréal (CA);
Claudia Strahl (c@dysturb.net) Kologne (DE); and
Martin Sobota (m@dysturb.net) Rotterdam (NL).
We would also like to welcome our growing team of writers in the design capitals around the world:
Edgar Gonzales (Madrid, ES)
Léa-Catherine Szacka (London, UK)
Flavio Coddou (Shanghai, CN)
If you want to join the team, send us an email!
All content on this site is licensed with Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, which basically means you can use and re-publish our content as long as you use it for non-commercial purposes and mention where it comes from.