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Urban modelling is a difficult and complex art. We might seek to reduce it to simplicity of a computer strategy game like Sim City – place a cop station here and see crime reduce overnight (something it singularly never seemed to achieve on my stretch of the Uxbridge Road in Shepherd’s Bush in the mid-noughties). So much of the energy in recent years has been expended debating whether there is such a thing as a ‘smart city’ and if there was (which there is) a fixation on big data as the IT salesman’s salvation to directing the flow of resources, infrastructure, transport and public ...

Exploring our own past Exploring our own past Artist Nawin Nuthong's exhibition 'The Immortals Are Quite Busy These Days' draws inspiration from years of gaming and an interest in history and archaeology published : 17 Mar 2021 at 04:00 Some items on display at the exhibition. A boy walks towards the trees and asks them a history question. The trees do not answer him. Then, the boy sees two trees running back to their game world and he follows them, and so his journey begins. This unusual story is part of video installations at the art exhibition titled "The Immo...

The Humbolt Forum in Berlin. SHF © Photo: Christoph Musiol. “DARLING, AT A CERTAIN POINT ONE MUST STOP BITCHING and get to work,” Detlef Weitz told me when we met at a sun-showered Humboldt Forum shortly before Christmas. He had a point. My bad-mouthing the reconstructed Baroque Royal Palace had stopped being interesting. For years, every mention of the project has sparked animated discussions of the sort where each statement lights a fire under the next, resulting in extraordinary conflagrations of fury. In that way, the Humboldt Forum is a bit like Donald Trump or Brexit: I don’t k...

Almost there! Check your email inbox to finalise email verification. You'll then be asked to choose a password so you can log in to The Spinoff. February 19, 2021 The Navigator sails again: Michelle Langstone meets Che Fu A pioneering New Zealand voice, a neighbour, and not finished yet. Ahead of the 20-year anniversary concert for his great album, Michelle Langstone talks to Che ‘Fu’ Ness. Portraits by Edith Amituanai. I lived next door to Che Fu for a year when I was a Uni student. It was in between his breakthrough debut album 2b S.Pacific, and the 2001 multi-platinum h...

Social media has made analogies with the poo emoji and the Arcologies in Sim City 2000. But Amazon says otherwise.