by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 17, 2024 | Architecture, Building, City Planning, Community, Composition, Connection, Crafts, Critique, Culture, Form, Gentrification, Green Space, Handmaking, Housing, Ideas, Images, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Landscape, Marketing, Martha Stewart, Media, Process, Project, Social Engagement, Urban Design, Vancouver
New modular building blocks create a visual for more humane densityI blame my dream-home fantasies on that OG influencer Martha Stewart.When the thick, slick Martha Stewart Living was queen of the magazine racks I was there for the Crafts: the rustic doorstop...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 24, 2015 | Appropriation, Architecture, Cultural Hub, Doilies, Doily, Graffiti, Green Space, Guerrilla Art, Mural, Political Art, Protest, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Wrap I, Wrap II
One of a handful of Vancouver’s ‘country lanes’ from a 2002 pilot projects. (Photo: Ben Nelms for National Post) And yet.And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between,...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 24, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Project
I can barely remember this city before community gardens. They’re so integral to my neighbourhood, and I don’t even have a plot of my own.Aside from the obvious benefit of providing people ways to grow their own food, community gardens are also spaces of...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 10, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Inspiration, Metalworker, Public Art
I know I should be researching or finishing or conceiving or cleaning or thanking or discussing or working on proposals. But like everyone else in the northern Northern Hemisphere, I can barely remain indoors these fine days. Because — and I hate to be the bearer of...
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