Trans Europe Halles, the European Network of Cultural Centers, are communication and learning partners within “Europe Grand Central” – a two year EU funded project that connects methods to create curiosity about border crossings. Read more here more
Today is the first day of Europe Grand Central! An effort uniting a network of independent European culture centers on the task of fostering curiosity about “the human act of crossing borders”. more
Not Quite Art Center in Fengersfors are project coordinators and runs craft workshops within “Europe Grand Central” – a two year EU funded project that connects methods to create curiosity about border crossings. Read more here more
This workshop considered the idea of borders within the city. We explored this idea through a variety of methods including game design, net ethnography, participatory urban research (including the use of the Bordr app), and contemporary dance. more
Vandring – Vittring was an in depth artistic exploration of the borders between the Swedish twin cities of Vänersborg and Trollhättan. It was the first time border stories on the Bordr app were submitted through live storytelling, and mapped into a graph of borders between the cities. more
The project was part of a larger research effort by the Open Society Foundations exploring the situations of stateless populations in the Middle East. Participants borrowed cameras for several weeks and told their stories in photographs, drawings, and voices. more
We define a border as the space between two entities. The Bordr iPhone app nails this definition with its ability to “check in” to spaces in-between. It is the technological basis for most Bordr projects, and continuously iterated into new forms. more
Academic, journalistic, and experimental research project at Columbia University, The New School, and Queens Museum, New York, to explore self told border stories between multiple homes. It was based on a method of lent cameras resulting in a border based media player, the Bordr app, and core Bordr concepts. more
Camera lending project to show the lives, and promote the rights, of cross border traders in Southern Africa. Exhibitions, based on traders own stories, have been shown in eight countries and led to the African Traders project above. more
“Beyond the Great Wall” was a series of reportage for leading Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet to cover the borders of China ahead of the Beijing Olympic games in 2008. It became one of the conceptual starting points of Bordr. more