John Kamp

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Landscape + urban designer / play proponent / closet #house + #techno DJ. Co-author of #dreamplaybuild with James Rojas (@jamesrojas) on Island Press. Bylines at @nextcity, @fastcompany, @planetizen, @commonedge...

Lives in #Oakland, always in #LosAngeles, #Minnesotan born and raised.

Interested in building a community of the curious and less an optimum follower-to-following ratio.

Websitehttps://www.prairieform.com
Author pagehttps://islandpress.org/author/john-kamp
DJ sitehttps://djjohnnycakes.com
LanguagesFrench, Spanish, Svenska, English
John KampApr 17, 2023

Happening in our hood, finally.
https://bit.ly/41EvdMB

#housing #urbanism #urbandesign #transit #oakland #bayarea #urbanplanning #BART

BART is gearing up to build housing at its Rockridge station

The transit agency held an open house this week to gather input on development at Oakland’s northernmost BART station.

The Oaklandside
Show threadJohn KampApr 6, 2023
@JL32 Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this. We have lots of plants from New Zealand growing here that seem to be pretty well-behaved and thriving - Cordylines and flax especially.
Show threadJohn KampApr 6, 2023
@JL32 So interesting to see our tree growing there - parallels Eucalyptus trees here in California, which grow super fast, prevent other plants from growing beneath them, and then explode if there's a fire. But monarchs like roosting in them... so, the good/bad dichotomy isn't so cut and dried with them.
John KampApr 4, 2023

From Tracks to Build to: #SXSW. Merging model-building with DJing (and lighting). People built models of their first memory of sound and then worked in groups to build models of their dream nightclub in an unlikely place. Lots of plants, clouds, animals, and a kind of softness to the clubs figured in the mix.

#trackstobuildto #dreamplaybuild #communityengagement #urbanism #cityplanning #housemusic #nightlife

John KampApr 4, 2023

DJ set 2 from Tracks to Build to: #SXSW. This one I crafted around the prompt of building your dream club in an unlikely place. As cities become increasingly expensive and underground clubs become harder to run / keep afloat, how can we rethink the club space itself? You may use this for the soundtrack to your own model-building endeavors or any creative endeavor you want to sink into:

Link to set: djjohnnycakes.com

#urbanism #trackstobuildto #dreamplaybuild #communityenggement

Show threadJohn KampApr 4, 2023
@joelvanillabear Oh dear, many thanks for the props. I really appreciate it! Yes, so each one I mixed on my turntables and then Traktor (some tracks are SO expensive to get on vinyl now, so some I get as files) through a three-channel mixer. Here is a picture of the set-up here in Oakland:
John KampApr 3, 2023

DJ set 1 from Tracks to Build to: #SXSW. This one I crafted around the idea of building a favorite memory of sound (which folks at the workshop did), the second around building a model of a club in an unlikely place. You may use these as the soundtrack for your own model-building workshops you lead with folks or for any kind of creative endeavor you want to get lost in.

#urbanism #communityengagement #trackstobuildto #housemusic #dreamplaybuild

Link to set: https://djjohnnycakes.com

#urbanism

DJ JOHNNYCAKES

John KampMar 31, 2023

From our Tracks to Build to event at #SXSW, where we merged DJing with model-building and people built models of their first memory of sound and then their ideal nightclub in an unlikely place.

#dreamplaybuild #communityengagement #nightlife #housemusic #techno #urbanism #urbanplanning #trackstobuildto

Show threadJohn KampMar 12, 2023
@bedwardstiek LOL, yes, I guess there was... although, barely in France at that time! We still wrote our papers with fountain pens - in 1999.
John KampMar 8, 2023

As chain-retail anchors head out of American urban cores yet again, a new kind of Ikea is about to set up shop in downtown #SanFrancisco. Called Livat, it is a new, pedestrian-friendly model of Ikea - first one opened in #London. Could set an example for how major-chain retail needs to evolve to meet changing times in cities.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-ikea-opening-date-17759778.php

#urbanism #cities #urbanplanning #retail #Ikea #urbandesign #Sweden #design

New Ikea mall in downtown San Francisco opening soon

After much anticipation, and delays, the Ikea mall in downtown San Francisco is scheduled to open this spring, the company told SFGATE on Thursday. 

SFGATE