Two empty Freistädter bottles sit on top of a trash can instead of inside it. In #Linz, deposit bottles are sometimes left within easy reach for people who collect them for the refund. A small piece of street etiquette: leaving a little value behind for the next person. #Zine

What does a city look like when you read it through what catches your eye, not through data? #Loftwork published a report on "BUYABUYA #SHIBUYA," a street walk we co-hosted in Tokyo. loftwork.com/jp/finding/buya… #timespace #ZINE

Our next city is San Francisco. After #Linz, we're magazinizing #SF — live, on the street, Oct 13–15.

I'm going to #SF #TCDisrupt, Oct 13–15. See you around.

Apparently for Japanese exhibitors, it's more common to manufacture things in Japan and ship/set them up locally — so that part genuinely surprised people. #ArsElectronica2026 #LINZZINE #timespace #PhysicalAI #Linz

People were surprised when I told them about the project. We set up an editorial "office" right in Linz's main square, and had the whole thing printed at a local print shop.

Wanting to go there felt natural, in a way. But none of those encounters were guaranteed — it was a real bet.

The people from those European cities I mentioned share a similar kind of uniqueness with Linz. Not capitals, but places that take art and design seriously, home to a disproportionate number of innovators.

What mattered most was real conversation. That's why we opened a makeshift bookstore at OK PLATZ — it was our point of contact for that.

It's this practice of turning analog into digital, then bringing it back to analog again. Through that, we're not just uncovering the cracks and insights even locals haven't noticed — we're handing them back to the city, in the form of a magazine.

We spend each day in dialogue with AI, weaving it into a physical local culture magazine. Printed at a local print shop. Handed out by our team, on the ground.

We wanted to turn all of Linz into a "magazine" — a living media. We started preparing for this back in July. ZINE is an AI app: you scan the city with it, and that becomes raw material for articles.

Linz is honestly incredible. It used to be a steel town. It has history, it has industry — but next to Vienna, it loses on almost everything: name recognition, tourism assets, layers of history, cultural heritage.