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David Garcia Studio's submission for the UNESCO Delta City of the Future-competition has made it through to the final. Out of 40 international teams, 14 have been selected. We are now invited to come to Rotterdam to take part in the 24-hour pressure cooker session. Congrats to the studio team.

"La Casa Encendida" in Madrid, will exhibit David Garcia Studio's MAP publication from the 29 of June to the 1st of September 2010. ‘De Zines’, tries to reflect what is happening in the contemporary editorial creation on the level of independent publications, how this area relates to the artistic production and social, cultural and current political environment. Around 400 international publications have been gathered from most established magazines in the market until handmade zines and a selection of experimental magazines.

Inspired by the 13 century musical instrument, and working with the rhythm and tempo created by the human arm, the Shadow Organistrum tests interactive forms of virtual space. This device creates a continuously random link between the user, as they turn the lever, and the space that surrounds them. The installation puts into question the “reality” of the space found between the shadow surface and the focus, or source of light. Not sound, but shadows, “draw” the “musical” score, and the space surrounding the device.

Möbius serves as a beacon, and as a playful structure for this municipal school in the Danish town of Sjølund. In collaboration with artist Pernille Worsøe and designer Martin Larsen, David Garcia Studio created this work based on the möbius strip, a single surface with non-orientable properties which triggers the mind and the senses. The circular shape functions not only as a playground with, a rich formal and textural vocabulary, but as a unifying element for the school, where it becomes a meeting point for the institution and a symbolic gesture for curiosity. Möbius is made from 10mm thick roll-formed steel plate, measures 5.5 meters in diameter and is placed around a plane tree. (Photo Credits: M. Larsen)

Mimi Zeiger  brings her amazing exhibition "A Few Zines" to Chicago, and she is including MAP in this show. It opens at UIC's School of Architecture the 5th of April and concludes April the 9th with a top notch panel. The closing-night panel, Publishing Futures, includes: Brendan Crain,  The Where Blog Penelope Dean , University of Illinois, Chicago, Flat Out Iker Gil, UIC, University of Illinois, Chicago,  MAS Context Marc Fischer,  Temporary Services Jimenez Lai, University of Illinois, Chicago,  Bureau Spectacular Publishing Futures: Content, Context, and Emerging Formats With e-book, tablet, and social media technologies rapidly reshaping the publishing landscape, how new and old formats respond? Publishing Futures observes the changes facing art, architecture, and design publishing—blogs, journals, zines, and magazines—and speculates on future models. Closing Panel April 9, 2010 Panel Discussion: 6:00 – 7:30 pm Reception: 8:00 pm ‘til late.

The exhibit opening was a smashing success. Hundreds came and conquered! Thank you all for making this amazing evening possible. MAP was nearly sold out, and Steven Holl took a bunch of them. Moma will now be selling the Studio's publication. Cheers to the Storefront team, Nicola and Geoff and everyone at David Garcia Studio!

HB: BX is an open ideas competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to draw awareness to the current efforts to restore and reopen the historic High Bridge. This competition is a forum to explore the urban and community improvement opportunities that may come with the achievement of such a momentous milestone. The aim of the Studio's proposal is to re-establish the significance of the derelict High Bridge as a historic and cultural point/landmark, which links the Bronx to Manhattan, while making evident the infrastructural damage that this site has been submitted to. High Bridge needs to re-conquer its status as a popular destination, a unique inter-borough crossing, and the Manhattan-Bronx link in the Old Croton Aqueduct Greenway without being oblivious to...