PhotosPhotosPhotosPhotosPhotos Old news: Marts 2014: N55 have now tested the new XYZ CARGO BIKE and it works beyond all expectations. Its really fast, steady, slim, lightweight and introducing a whole new "flat front" design of the front wheel and steering geometry. We will finish some details and test it thoroughly within the next couple of months and then make it available as a finished bike, as a kit or offer persons to build their own at workshops along with the XYZ CARGO TRIKE. The XYZ CARGO BIKE is based on the N55 Open Source project XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES and is designed in collaboration with Till Wolfer and Jesper Rølund. The XYZ BABY ( made in collaboration with Anne Romme) is also on its way so we will be able to offer three models soon: XYZ CARGO TRIKE, XYZ CARGO BIKE and the XYZ CARGO BABY. The overall work with art as a part of everyday life will continue and a lot of everyday life things are on the way... The XYZ CARGO BIKE is based on the XYZ SPACEFRAMES VEHICLES and hereby on the general XYZ NODES system. the new manual for XYZ NODES can be found here. Here is the newest version of XYZ CARGO BIKE. ( 13th of march 2014) We are still fixing small details, but its almost ready... At the moment N55 is also working with the following things: We are involved in a large scale urban planning project in Hedehusene, Denmark, with White Architects, Malmø. N55s main strategy is to convince the clients that a major distribution of power in society is needed, in order to find ways of existing with as small concentrations of power as possible, so that any real changes can happen. The power of logic versus the logic of power. The guys at White have created a fantastic team of specialists in very different fields and its really interesting to be part of this. Together with architect Anne Romme, Engineer Anne Bagger and Engineer Daniel Sang-Hoon Lee, we are developing a SPACEPLATES underwater habitat, for marin biologist Loyd Godson, to be placed at the Great Barrier reef in Australia. Its going to be realized soon. We have just started a new collaboration with Dane Shea aiming to make an open source XYZ 3D PRINTER. It will be based on the XYZ NODES system and different open source hardware and software. Really exciting!

PhotosPhotosPhotos Old news: November 2013: We have just finished installing a prototype of XYZ OPEN CITY in Groningen, The Netherlands. XYZ OPEN CITY is an open source, modular, low cost system that persons in local communities can use as a tool to implement a wide range of shared functions in public space. The XYZ OPEN CITY system can be used to build anything from urban gardens to fully functional insulated housing. Building materials can be new or recycled. XYZ OPEN CITY constructions can be dedicated to a specific purpose like for example an OPEN POWER STATION based on solar panels and/or wind turbines or it can form multifunctional buildings providing a variety of facilities. It can also be used to construct new infrastructure like bridges, etc. With XYZ OPEN CITY N55 proposes to share things in public space as an alternative to state or private ownership and hereby to establish new commons. XYZ OPEN CITY can plug into existing infrastructure and change the functions of existing buildings, indoors or outdoors, or it can be used to build a new city from scratch. When the system is implemented in an area, it can grow in relation to local needs and wishes. The XYZ OPEN CITY system can be seen as a do-it-yourself urban planning tool; An alternative to the top down urban planning that dominates most cities in the world. N55 encourage persons to build their own XYZ OPEN CITIES and hereby influence their local urban environments. The single modules are so lightweight that a crowd of people can carry one each, gather up at a site and quickly create a large structure with different functions in public space.

PhotosPhotosPhotosPhotosPhotos Old news: July 2013 Copenhagen: We have just tested the new PARKCYCLE SWARM in Copenhagen. The PARKCYCLE SWARM is a modular system that empower persons to build an instant public park whenever and wherever they want to. The PARKCYCLE SWARM consists of a number of human powered mobile gardens. The individual gardens can be combined to form public parks. A PARKCYCLE SWARM can consist of any number of individual gardens. The PARKCYCLE SWARM system is based on the XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES project. ( Please find the manual here). PARKCYCLE SWARM is an Open Source project by N55 and Till Wolfer in collaboration with the Rebar group

PhotosPhotosPhotosPhotosPhotosPhotos Old news 2012: We are participating in the exhibition "Get it louder" in Beijing and we gave a talk there recently. In December we will travel to Hong Kong to participate in the exhibition "Design Renegade", with XYZ MOBILE FACTORY We participated in 13 exhibitions in 2012. News about our exhibition activity can always be found at N55 CV. We have developed a new Version of the XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES: The XYZ CARGO. We aim to take this project all the way and make our art part of everyday life for any person that would like it to be so. In order to find out if its possible to establish a fair way of producing and selling things locally under the realm of Open Source, and Creative Commons, we have decided to set up a MICRO BUSINESS producing and selling XYZ CARGOs locally and under fair conditions. We have been working for months in order to refine the design and production and we hope to be able to deliver homemade XYZ CARGOs in the spring. The manuals for the basic XYZ construction principles and the XYZ recumbent type will nonetheless remain for public download as specified here. We are continuing our research into SPACEPLATES and an academic paper written together with our collaborators, architect Anne Romme and now also engineer Anne Bagger, about the subject, has been accepted for the ICSA, International Conference Structures and Architecture 2013. Follow the work at the manual for SPACEPLATES GREENHOUSE. New summer photos of the worlds first permanent large structure using the principles can be found

PhotosPhotosPhotosPhotos Old news: April 2012 XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES/ XYZ CARGO bikes in Scotland, Dundee and XYZ FACTORY in Cuxhaven Germany.

PhotosPhotosPhotosPhotosPhotosPhotos Old news: Copenhagen 2011: WALKING HOUSE is now part of the ONE CITY CAMPAIGN in the center of Copenhagen.ONE CITY CAMPAIGN is a collaboration between N55, Anne Romme and the INSTANT HERLEV institute. The ONE CITY CAMPAIGN attempts to create connections between the urban and the suburban. A number of things and persons will participate in the ONE CITY CAMPAIGN during the comming year. The N55 ship, the SHIP OF FOOLS will be moored at a central site in Copenhagen, where food will be grown etc. The SHIP OF FOOLS together with the WALKING HOUSE will serve as accomodation for persons working in the situation. You can see WALKING HOUSE walk here. Watch a time lapse video here. The very first steps can be watched here. Or read about it in Dwell magazine here.

PhotosOld news: N55 BOOK was released in January 2004 A digital version of N55 BOOK can be downloaded for free here. http://www.n55.dk/N55_BOOK_PDF/DOWNLOAD.html Old news: N55 BOOK was released in January 2004 A digital version of N55 BOOK can be downloaded for free here. http://www.n55.dk/N55_BOOK_PDF/DOWNLOAD.html

Old news: August 2015 Back from a 2 months vacation. Working on the XYZ CARGO project. Till is currently representing N55 in Paris at the POC 21.The SPACEPLATES UNDERWATER HABITAT is almost ready to be submerged in Sydney Harbour: We enjoyed using the XYZ OPEN CITY system to create a XYZ OPEN CITY HANGOUT in front of the danish parlament as part of a workshop with students from the University of Copenhagens Summerschool in collaboration with Till Wolfer. It has been a very busy spring. We have shown a large version of XYZ OPEN CITY in Aarhus Denmark and we did an exhibition/ workshop/ porposal for a new arboretum centre at Carleton college, Minnesota, USA. We have increased the production of XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES as part of the Open Source based business XYZ CARGO. People are riding XYZ CARGO cycles in more and more places primarily in Europe. At the moment three N55 works can be seen at the CITY CAMPING situation at the banks of the Seine in central Paris, FREE URBAN HABITAT SYSTEM, SNAIL SHELL SYSTEM and the PARKCYCLE SWARM: We are also part of an exhibition called URBAN ORGANISMS at the Newbridge Project in Newcastle, UK: A new piece of Land in Pennsylvania has been added to LAND:

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