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After a week in Berlin, I’m back at my friend’s flat in Hackney, East London, where I’m staying for the duration of my time here. The flat is in an old, Georgian building, just off Clarence Road. This was the … Continue reading
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Quite by coincidence, my friends here in Berlin have the same IKEA couch that I used to have in my apartment in Singapore in 2009. And so I have this strange feeling, sitting on the couch and tapping away on … Continue reading
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The one thing about travelling on one’s own, or in my case, returning to places I once lived in or visited to catch up with old friends, is that one is very often by oneself, with too much time on … Continue reading
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Or, to put it in vernacular terms: Home is really your stuff. Since I haven’t actually had a place to call my own this past year, my sense of home is invested in the stuff that I own (and have … Continue reading
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7 days into 2012, and I find myself preparing to travel again. This time, it’s back to London for a short stay, four months after I packed my bags (and my life) up and said goodbye to it. It’s weird … Continue reading
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Take a look at my new art project: 100 Ways to See at http://www.100waystosee.com When you live in the city, you don’t really see it properly. What I’ve decided to do is to take one street – the street where … Continue reading
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When I reflect on my past year (and a half) of constant travel, it’s clear to me that 2011 has been defined by my being in-between homes. To put it another way: Home, for me, has been an In-between Place. … Continue reading
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So I read somewhere that Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where I live in New York), is a street art junkie’s nirvana. You can’t walk down two blocks without encountering a surprising piece of work. I decided to test that hypothesis out myself … Continue reading
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A few days ago, I went to the United Nations Headquarters for the first time, specifically to check out an exhibition Design with the other 90%: Cities, that featured design-based solutions for urban issues in cities of the developing world. … Continue reading
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Marc Augé (1995), in his seminal book Non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity, sheds light on the concept of “non-places,” noting that: “[i]f a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a space which … Continue reading
Dream Of A City 