Bring An App Into The Streets
The world-known smartphone game Angry Birds, ranked #1 in Apple App Store for a bunch of months, has decided to celebrate its birthday moving its characters into the streets. Saturday December 11th was the chosen day to celebrate, with flash-mobs, meet-ups and public performances, the universal success of what appears to be a must have app.
Radio From The Red Light District
Since a week the city of Amsterdam has a new, extraordinary online radio station. The unique concept Red Light Radio started broadcasting from a former prostitution window in the Dutch capital’s (in)famous Red Light District. Red Light Radio brings daily shows of artists playing their favorite tunes, live performances by bands, acoustic sessions, and local, national […]
Celebrity City Tours 2: Glenn Gould’s Toronto
In the late 1970s the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation put together a series simply called ‘Cities’ where certain celebrity figures gave very personal introspective tours of their hometown to millions of Canadian television viewers. Actor Peter Ustinov showcased Leningrad, and stage director Jonathan Miller took us around London. Most memorable of the series however was not of […]
Food Touring
In late Stockholm has started to bloom as a green-minded town. Sustainable is a state of being. Eco is king. Scandinavian Preppy retailers are recycling. The clothing brand Boomerang is breathing new life into recycled pieces of garment (known as the Boomerang Effect), fashion label Filippa K has its own second hand brand store, gigantic […]
Live Map Of UK Students' Protests
In UK, the House of Commons has voted in favour of the increase in university tuition fees, ignoring the widespread students’ protests. The protests saw continuous, and often violent, face-offs with British police, including kettling charges by the mounted police. UCL Occupation, an anti-fee hike students’ group from University College of London, created a live […]
A London Supermarket Owned By Its Customers
For those who are frustrated about the products that the local supermarket does not sell, or about the quality of the fruits or bread sold in your supermarket, here is a tip: start a cooperative supermarket together with your neighbors. In London The People’s Supermarket, a supermarket co-owned by its members, has opened doors. Springwise […]
Where Did Yours Go?
Sewage systems are totally taken for granted, but without them life would be a lot worse. Considered the best innovation in history (no, not the iPad), they are just there under the streets of the Western world, taking care of our sanitation. However, 2.6 billion people do not have access to such a system. The […]
Tiger Stone: The Road Printer
The evolution of innovative printing techniques in the three-dimensional world goes on. Before we reported about the amazing rapid prototyping revolution, about printers that are able to print complete buildings and about the inkjet printer for streets. Now there is also the road printer. The Tiger Stone brick printer makes road construction as easy as […]
Big Brother Is Gauging You
The Stimmungsgasometer/Fühlometer is a project by Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck, and Benjamin Maus which debuted in Berlin in the Fall of 2008, involving a giant smiley face that glows at night and responds to the moods of Berliners on the street. A camera with a zoom lens attached to a laptop is covertly set […]
Green Saddles And Free Meals
A hotel that uses its guests as a source of renewable energy? Only one thing comes to mind and it’s not pleasant! Don’t panic though, it’s not part of Kubrick’s wicked imagination or some horror movie you will be taking part in if you visit the Crown Plaza Copenhagen Towers. Especially if you are aware […]
Bar Aid: For A Guilt-Free Night Out
"A globally unique non-profit bar" will soon open in Melbourne. Shebeen Bar is a social business that will be entirely financed by investors with a social conscience. By drinking at Shebeen, you will be supporting development projects in developing nations. The organisers promise that AUD$2 profit from each drink sale will be donated to a development aid project in that drink's country of origin.
Designer Homes For Bats
Often the discourse of providing sustainable urban developments is solely on reducing CO2 emissions with the focus of a shift towards renewable energy supplies. This is important enough, but unfortunately, the severe impact of built environment on the world’s biosphere and eco systems is often marginalized. However, it seems like the topic is gaining some […]
Bring Down Your Remote!
To make people participate in public events has always been a hard task for whom organizes mass-happenings. People act as mere spectators in most of the cases, feeling maybe astonished by the whole fireworks atmosphere of the big event, but at the same time being just a crowd. If many design offices nowadays are wondering how to […]
