Cities in progress: Please do not disturb is an exhibition featuring the work of FutureCityLab, an open-source initiative by a group of professionals and educators in order to think of a more sustainable urban development. The exhibition will be open from 22 May until 5 July at Aedes Am Pfefferberg in Berlin (Germany), hosting also workshops and discussions with experts to reflect on the future of our cities.

To learn more: here. 

From 12 April to 31 August the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris (France) hosts the exhibition Re.architecture, Re.cycle, Re.use, Re.invest, Re.build analysing new approaches and stategies of building sustainable and user-friendly cities. The exhibition features the projects of 15 European associations and collectives who engage in collaborative and cross-cutting urban and architectural practices, as exyzt, Coloco and Raumlabor. 

In Paris (France) from 15 February to 23 June Lieu du Design presents the exhibition Sous les pavés, le design, showing the key role of designers in the process of creation of public spaces, assigning them to a function as well as a social and a cultural value.

For more information: here.

Two days left to visit the exhibition Strategies for Public Occupation at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, featuring the creative proposals of spatial occupations for public demonstrations and actions in cities throughout the world, sent by designers, architects and simple citizens.

OFFICINA ROMA is the new experimental building by raumlaborberlin: a villa without a living room but a central workshop-space, a sleeping area and a kitchen. In one week the German collective designed and created it with the help of Italian young students, using only discarded materials. The project is within the frame of the exhibition RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet at the MAXXI in Rome, lasting until the 29th April 2012.

Until 29th January 2012 at NAiM/Bureau Europa in Maastricht (The Netherlands), REcentre features the exhibition Re-Action! Common Grounds, presenting best practices of bottom-up initiatives which can lead to a possible, sustainable and community-driven revolution.

Design with the Other 90%: CITIES is the new exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, focusing on how design can actually be a tool to improve the quality of live in emerging and developing countries. The virtual database features 60 projects, divided in 6 themes - Exchange, Reveal, Adapt, Include, Prosper and Access - that suggest creative answers to real and basic needs of these communities.

This is not a museum. Mobile devices lurking is the new exhibition of ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies in Vic (Spain) from 15th October until 15th January 2011. The exhibition presents a large informative archive of interesting case studies of mobile devices, conceived as potential elements for an experimental and alternative conception of “museum”. It also showcases some of the original artifacts carried out by international artists and collectives, as A77, raumlaborberlin, Todo por la Praxis within Ceci n’est pas une voiture project.

From 2006 to 2009 Platform 21 worked as an incubator for a new concept of design museum in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Applying the principle of learning by doing, Platform 21 presented alternative exhibition formats and promoted a more democratic approach in showcasing design. Curatorial Cooking tells the story of this experience in an open D.I.Y. way, with famous projects like the Repair manifesto, Platform21 = Hacking IKEA, encouraging people to steal these ideas.

POST IT CITY Ciudades ocasionales (Occasional Cities) is an exhibition, taking place from 22 September 2011 to 19 February 2012 in CentroCentro in Madrid (Spain). The project shows how people make different and spontaneous uses of public spaces: situations and actions which generate a new form of urbanism and urban aesthetic and suggest new challenges to the city.

From September 9th through October 17th the gallery Momenta Art in New York (USA) hosts Mobility, an exhibition of vending carts created by artists, using public spaces for personal experiences in opposition to mass consumerism. They’re projects that celebrate recycling, sustainability and creativity within immigrant communities. The works will be taken out into the neighbourhoods, surrounding the gallery and manned by the artists during scheduled performance times.

Avant-post was a temporary project carried out by Chapuisat Brothers for CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchatel in Switzerland. It’s more than a wooden mazy structure supported by a set of long piles: it’s a living and working space always under construction, with beds, a meeting room, an office, a lounge area and much more.  

Only three days left to see one of the urban actions, performances and artistic installations that are livening up the streets of the inner city of Frankfurt (Germany). It’s Playing the City 3, the exhibition project which focuses on public spaces as venues for art, involving the urban environment and its inhabitants.

Are shipping-containers boxes for art or art themselves? Different perspectives around the theme told by two current projects: Contentores in Lisbon (Portugal), where pop-up containers host monthly site-specific art interventions and Container Architecture at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (Germany), an exhibition celebrating containers as a resource for urban design.

Talking to Walls is a project by the creative research group Broken City Lab for Public Realm, an exhibition held in 2010 in Toronto (Canada). It consisted of a series of outdoor projections with fill-in-the-blank texts around issues related to public space, which were inspired by the answers people had given through a questionnaire.