On December 17th 2009 four Greenpeace activists grabbed news headlines around the world after they peacefully gate-crashed a party dinner for the heads of states during the Copenhagen climate summit.

Their action - or performance - left the Danish police not only embarrassed but also very upset, and the four activists was jailed for 20 days without trial.

The activists were referred to as The Red Carpet Four and while they were still in prison, Greenpeace released a video telling their story.

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A piece by Nicolas Roope (of Hulger, Poke and much more) in which he plays with the boundaries between a virtual visit to Chicago in Google Streetview and a real visit to Chicago in person.

Apparently it worked like this: Nicolas first went to selected places in Google Streetview, grabbed some of the Street View images and photoshopped himself into them. Subsequently, he went in person to the same places in Chicago, placed a print of the photoshopped Street View images at the scene they were originally taken. Then, he documented it by taking a photo of the image and put it on the web along with a a small text and a link to the Street View location.

•www.chicagoteleporter.info

City Eyes is a project from 2008 by DUS Architects that addresses the border between the private and public domain.

Through a series of events in Amsterdam, the architects played with the characteristics of the window as a screen between interior and exterior.

See for instance the performative project "breakfast" (image) which connects a living room with the street outside.

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A Dutch character used in a TV program on climate change. Perhaps an idea for the next generation of comic heroes.

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A public event in which three poets created small pieces of climate inspired poetry based on various sources of text, such as the Danish Google translation of the Kyoto protocol.

The event took place in conjunction with the UN Climate Change Conference. For an overview of other related events taking place in Copenhagen these days, check out Hopenhagenlive.

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The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a small performance troupe based in Boston, USA, proposes to not release at least 38,575 kilograms of CO2 into the air by not traveling to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The amount of energy saved in fuel could feed 150 people for a year or power 325 60w lightbulbs turned on continuously for a year.

You help can help document this massive effort of local pleasure by contributing photos to Flickr with the tag "notgoingtocopenhagen".

• www.flickr.com/search/?q=notgoingtocopenhagen

The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam recently came close to moving out of its historic building, build by the legendary architect of the same name.

However, the plan (initiated by the academy's own management) was met with anger and was abandoned after students, x-students and other friends of the place, orchestrated a string of creative protests.

Some documentation is available on-line such as this visual petition, this t-shirt and this poster.

• www.rietveldforrietveld.org

In 2008 the Danish Artnode foundation published the book 'Vi elsker din Computer' (We Love Your Computer), a 500 page anthology with no images on the phenomenon of net art.

Not exactly light material, but as if the format and perhaps subject itself wasn't already dry enough, the Artnode team subsequently transformed the publication into an audio book, which consists of a single audio track containing a 14 hour long, poorly recorded, reading.

When listening to the track you can't help feel sorry for the reader who on many occasions stumbles over some of the net.art references and URL's mentioned in the book - such as the numerous references to: http://0100101110101101.org.

The 200mb audio book is available for download at Artnode's website. Quite brilliant, but unfortunately only in Danish.

• www.artnode.org

Copenhagen Podride is a series of podcasts created for passengers on the Copenhagen subway, the S-Trains.

The podcasts contain stories about the urban and sociological development along the S-train lines. Stories are divided into chapters that match the S-stations, thus making it possible for passengers to get a location-specific story as they ride by.

The podcasts are only available in Danish but hopefully they will be produced in English as well as the content seem well suited for tourists and other visitors interested in alternatives to the traditional city tours.

Copenhagen Podride is provided by DSB: S-Train and Copenhagen X. The service is free of charge and available for download on the web, or on your mobile phone via SMS.

• www.cphx.dk

A blue line painted on the ground currently runs through Copenhagen's city center.

The line represents the capital's new waterfront if all the inland ice of Greenland were to melt, prompting water levels to rise by seven meters.

The line is a part of an art project called 'Water Knows No Walls' by the artists Haubitz + Zoche. The project takes part in the exhibition Rethink: Contemporary Art & Climate Change, which is one of many events taking place in Copenhagen these days as the city gets ready to host the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference.

If you want to know the potential consequences of rising sea levels in other parts of the world, you can use a map provided by Geology.com.

• www.waterknowsnowalls.com

Most Blue Skies is a complex computer generated installation that responds to real-time changes in the atmosphere to locate and visualize the 'bluest skies' in the world.

The result is displayed as a square of blue light that shows the most accurate possible reproduction of what it would be like to look up at that sky.

Most Blue Skies is created by Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway. The installation takes part in the 'Rethink' exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen.

• www.rethinkclimate.org

Selfpromotion: Here follows a description of a project I recently designed for a cultural festival in Spain.
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Urban Cursor is a GPS enabled object designed to facilitate social interaction and play in public space.

The object, which is shaped as an oversized 3-dimensional computer cursor (pointer), was placed on a square in Figueres, Catalunya during the cultural festival Ingràvid.

Here, people could touch it, move it around and sit on it as an alternative to the benches.

Despite being removed from its normal screen based environment, the cursor was still in touch with the digital world. Via an embedded GPS device, the cursor transmitted its geographic coordinates to a website. At the website, the coordinates were mapped in Google Maps thereby documenting the cursor's movements in the physical world and making it possible for participants to see how they collectively helped move the object around.

• www.urbancursor.com

IdeAporting is a new online platform where users can share ideas and innovations that could be imported, exported or both between countries worldwide.

The platform promotes social sustainability and you can help shape and improve it by submitting cases from your own community. Something that may seem trivial to you could be a new and radical idea to someone else.

Cases collected so far range from Nike's ReUSE A SHOE initiative (picture) to a landsharing service in London.

• www.idea-porting.com

Wordr is a new micro-blogging service that enables its users to create small text-based posts much like Twitter.

The main difference however, is that Wordr only let users post a single word at a time. The maximum length of a word allowed in Wordr is 23 letters, as in antidisestablishmentarianism. Making up new words is welcomed by the Wordr team.

Word.org is currently running in Alpha mode and you need to a Twitter account to log on. The idea is developed by Frankie Roberto and the design agency Rattle, based in the UK.

• http://wordr.org

In conjunction with a music event held outside the The National Gallery in Copenhagen earlier this summer, the gallery introduced a new kind of service: Art Toilets.

Besides being cleaned after each visit, the Art Toilets were equipped with art magazines and posters, thereby turning the trivial and potential unpleasant activity into a somewhat nice and memorable experience.

To access the Art Toilets, users were required to send an SMS to a dedicated number, which in return gave them a virtual toilet token, free of charge.

The phone numbers were collected and later used by the National Gallery to kick start a new SMS service.

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