Tag Archives: future

The Transcendent City

Richard Hardy, a recent graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, has produced a couple of very interesting movies exploring the future of our cities. This…

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A Dystopian Eco-Commune By Richard Hardy


The video The Eco-Commune by Richard Hardy is a short film exploring a dystopian vision of London in the near future. The economic meltdown of 2009 has…

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Five Questions To Reinier De Graaf (OMA)

The famous annual multidisciplinary conference TED is spreading across the globe. As of 2010, so-called TEDx events have been held in over 60 countries. Under the slogan ‘somethink

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Flying Gardens

An overwhelming history of sky design does not exist. Ancient Romans and Greeks never had the technical possibilities to really redesign the big space around us. As modern…

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The Next Big Annoyance In Loaded Trains

SixthSense presents the narrow escape for old media. As digital spaces seem to take over a lot of functions that used to be present in…

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NANO Supermarket

Since the rise of Philips’ Foodprinter and the amazing developments in 3D printing we made some speculations on future shopping on this blog. What, for…

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Open Soon: The Archigram Archives

Good news reached us today. Arkinet writes about the upcoming opening of Archigram’s archives, “with more than 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced by Archigram…

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The Digital Kiosk

More and more people are using tablet computers and e-readers to read books, magazines and newspapers. So, what will the kiosk of the future look like? To which extent will…

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Why Not Print Buildings?

During our explorations in fresh developments in architecture we already found plenty of nifty projects, ideas and concepts that have the potential to totally reframe the production of the physical…

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Rethinking Mobile Interfaces

Some days ago I came across an article on PSFK featuring Little World, a fresh user interface concept for mobile phones which was developed by Kevin

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Multi-Sensorial Gastronomy: The Future Of Flavor


‘Feeding the Senses’ is an interesting novelty in the field of food future. Before we’ve been talking about Philips’ food explorations and instant food installations, such as the…

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On Plug-In Retail

In August I wrote about a walking grill in Berlin. My article triggered Junk Jet Magazine to invite me to contribute to its third volume.…

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Build An Upgradeable Future With Grid Beam


Grid Beam is a building system which enables anyone to construct a variety of objects quickly and easily without expensive wood shop services or equipment. All…

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Speculations On 3D Printing, Part 2


Yesterday I speculated about the potential of 3D printers as future consumer products, as well as its possible societal and economic consequences. in the world of food we…

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Speculations On 3D Printing

Will 2010 become a 3D year, with a massive launch of 3D movies, 3D HD televisions, Augmented Reality applications, and printing of 3D objects? An intriguing series of 3D printing…

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