The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.

What does all that look like in the end? Something like this.

It’s pretty awesome.

All the way from Denmark for TEDxKreuzberg: Mr Green.

When he’s not innovating at Palomar5, Hans is involved in many projects, reaching from culture, art, fashion to supporting education in Africa. At TEDxKreuzberg, Hans will talk about the story, the experience and the results of Palomar5.

The Palomar5 team.

While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain. Its peak exceeds 1000 metres and is covered with snow from September to March…

While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain. Its peak exceeds 1000 metres and is covered with snow from September to March… Hamburg, as stiff as flat, turns green with envy, rich and once proud Munich starts to feel ashamed of its distant Alp-panorama and planners of the Middle- East, experienced in taking the spell off any kind of architectural utopia immediately design authentic copies of the iconic Berlin-Mountain. Tempelhof no longer only is on Berliners’ minds: People come in flocks to – not to see the mountain. Thus, Come and see The Berg!

(Read the German version of the manifesto here.)

For some images of The Berg as well as some more background about Jakob Tigges please read on after the jump.

Some images of The Berg

Jakob Tigges studied architecture and urban design in Aachen, Rome and Berlin. He complemented his architectural education with studies in sociology of communications at ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome and Management at ‘The London School of Economics and Political Science’, supported by generous scholarship-awards of the European Commission and the German National Merit Foundation. In his academic as in his practical work Jakob pursues to combine knowledge and methods from all the three disciplines.

After graduating in the year 2000 with the award-winning thesis ‘Villa Fantozzi’ he worked in different architectural practices in the Netherlands, Spain and Germany before starting to teach urban design at the chair of Prof. ir. Kees Christiaanse / Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout at ‘Technische Universität Berlin’ in 2003. He also works on commissions as strategic or creative planner for brand consultancies and advertising agencies.

His academic domain is the formation of ‘Strategic Urban Design’, an approach that aims at analysing and experimentally deploying the ‘real forces’ of urban development. With a small English-speaking class of international students he investigates inter-city competition in Europe and transformation in the world’s biggest, culturally most diverse and fastest changing urban societies.

Jodi Rose has traveled the world since 2002, creating Singing Bridges, a conceptual sound work using the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Recording the vibrations in the cables with contact microphones, editing and composing the sounds to create experimental music, performances, and installations has taken Jodi to festivals and events across Europe and Australia. She has dangled from the top of a crane in Bangkok to listen to the cables being ‘tuned,’ sampled cocktails in the bar of the UFO Bridge in Bratislava, been guardian of a bridge over the Danube, and traversed the globe from Helsinki to the Mekong Delta in her endless quest for bridge music. Jodi is working with engineers, architects, software developers and musicians to link the sounds of bridges around the world in the ultimate live networked ‘Global Bridge Symphony’, and writing a memoir of this quixotic philosophical journey from on her award winning Travel Diary.

Recording at Bizovik Bridge, Ljubljana

“Singing bridges” is a sonic sculpture, playing the cables of stay-cabled and suspension bridges as musical instruments. To create this work I will amplify and record the sound of bridge cables around the world. Listening in to the secret voice of bridges as the inaudible vibrations in the cables are translated into sound.

An urban sound-scape that reflects the physical and metaphoric structure of the telecommunications network, with its fibre-optic cables circling the globe. The iconography of the bridge cables echoes the telecommunications lines stretching across the globe and linking us together. The work plays on an acoustic extension and interpretation of the constant flow of information and data through these cables.

In the ultimate realisation of this idea, bridges at locations around the world are linked and played in real-time to create an International Bridge Symphony. As the Bridges are connected through the sound of their cables, they create an Acoustic Indra’s Net.

The cables of the bridge also reflect the vaulting in a church, designed to lift the spirit of the congregation to heaven with the vibrations of the choir’s singing. A metaphor for spiritual communication, the bridge cables arching skyward have the potential to lift the commuter to a higher plane.

The project offers a re-interpretation of the familiar architecture of concrete and steel into an experience of metaphysical connection. Allowing for the possibility of a transformative experience of the bridge, other than the everyday pragmatic, economic and visual encounters with architecture.

The sound of singing bridges all around the globe may also strike the resonant frequency of the earth’s materials and dissolve the world. Echoing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which was freed from material constraints when the resonant frequency was struck by the wind. Sounding the harmonic frequency within the unheard vibrations of the cables will release the voice and liberate the spirit of each bridge.

You can listen to some of Jodi’s bridge recordings on here and see a map of the bridges she has recorded here.

Dr. Stephan Baumann is a researcher in the field of music and artificial intelligence. He works in Berlin and Kaiserslautern and is head of the Competence Center Computational Culture (C4) at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He is a co-founder of Hard Blogging Scientists and engages in the open European exchange between startups, Web 2.0, activists and PhD students.
Besides hands-on projects in Social Media / Social Networks, he works on the interface between art and science in the field of Sonic Interaction Design, often in cooperation with other European creatives. His current research interests include digital identity, social network analysis and visualization, emotional music recommendation systems (OPENEER) and reality mining applications (UrbanSync). Berlin, Paris, Porto, London, urban life and the maximum input: He says about himself “I’m super nomadic! Save rocket science!”.

Eine kurze Vorstellung von Stephan Baumanns Projekten folgt nach dem Sprung…

Projekt URBAN SYNC (gefördert von der EU Cost Action Sonic Interaction Design)
Die Omnipräsenz privatester Daten, die ubiquitär von Alltagsgeräten in die Welt gestrahlt werden haben zu einer gnadenlosen Selbstvermarktung geführt. Goodbye Privacy mahnen die Kritiker, das Zeitalter des Ich-Streams und 24/7-LifeLoggings wird von den Befürwortern ausgerufen. Genutzt wird fleissig, Homo ludens allenthalben. Wie werden wir uns fühlen in einer Welt, in der der privateste Moment zum perfekten Matchmaking genutzt werden könnte? Um erste Antworten auf diese Fragen zu erhalten, unternahm Stephan Baumann eine Forschungsreise nach Portugal und dokumentierte dort mit einer Kombination aus technischen Alltagsgeräten und modernster Open-Source Software für 3 Wochen sein Leben. Das digitale, multimediale Tagebuch dieser Reise stellte er parallel und im Nachgang der Welt zum Download zur Verfügung.

GPS Graffity Porto

Urbansync Insitu

Urbansync Paris

Urbansync Sensoren

Projektskizze THE MESSAGE IS KRACH (Teilnehmer beim 5Gum Vision Lab Contest)
Ein jeder Mensch der Hören kann, kann unser Projekt erleben und nachfühlen. Die Ästhetik der Zuckungen des GHz-Raums ist aus unserer Überzeugung sinnlich, technisch, urban, durchaus von post-moderner Hipness und Style. Man darf sich dem Puls und Rhythmus der urbanen Kommunikationsmuster hingeben oder gar intervenieren, bzw. die Sinnhaftigkeit unseres kommunikativen Treibens hinterfragen. Muss aber nicht.

GHz Sonification

Projekt und Prototyp CAPTCHR (Betreuung der Diplomarbeit von M.Käppler, jetzt QYPE)
Hyperlocal und hypersocial: Technologien, die den lokalen urbanen Raum und seine Bewohner vernetzen, wurden im Prototypen CAPTCHR umgesetzt. Dabei kam es zur fruchtbaren Zusammenarbeit mit dem artverwandten Berliner Projekt/Startup CITYFINGER von A.Korth.

Hyperlocal Social Networks