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 Dys​turb.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.