I'm a co-founder and COO of timespace. For the Linz project, I'm leading overall project design and operations. We've exhibited at SXSW 2026 before, but running a full daily-issue publishing operation across an entire city—reporting, editing, printing, and distributing a ZINE, built with an app—with almost no people, no budget, and no local network to speak of, is genuinely exciting.
What drew me into founding timespace in the first place was a deep discomfort with something happening to Shibuya, my own hometown: the way a city becomes homogeneous.
Reading a city, re-seeing it from multiple angles, and publishing that as diverse, real-time articles isn't just a way of putting out information. I'm starting to believe it's a genuine method for reconsidering the very ground a city is built on.
I love cycling and music, and I can't think about my relationship with Shibuya without those sensory interfaces. So in Linz, a place I know nothing about, what interface will I even find? Right now, I have no answer. I just want to grab hold of one over these five days of editing.
Turning the world into a magazine. Said out loud, it sounds simple. But to walk into a place where you don't even know what your own editorial point of view is yet, and discover it right there, on the spot—that's a kind of adventure, and I feel real joy just being able to experience it.
Capitalism tends to define a city in a single way, as a stage for commercial success. I've always had a quiet, persistent interest in whatever slips out from under that—the movements that leak out of economic optimization and go unnoticed.
