Modular Greenhouses: The Next Big Thing In Urban Farming?
California-based company Cityblooms brings urban farming to a complete new level through a series of smart mini-farms that are connected and controlled through the Internet. Now underutilized spaces like rooftops or parking lots can be transformed into highly productive agricultural hubs.
Farmer’s Market On Wheels Delivers Veggies To Toronto’s Food Deserts
Food deserts are defined as areas without proper access to fresh, healthy and affordable food. Toronto's recently launched Mobile Good Food Market wants to overcome this problem by selling fresh produce on the streets in areas where people have few nutritious food options.
Spirits Are High At Dutch Drive-In Church
November last year saw an outbreak of bird flu in the Netherlands, which led to a whole host of routine measures being put in place to enable daily life to endure unaffected. However, one particular weekly ritual was forgotten, and very few could have expected it to lead to drive-in churches.
‘You Cannot Avoid Architecture, It’s Always In Your Way’
On Wednesday, January 21st, Stroom The Hague will host yet another of The Knight's Move talks. This time Berlin-based Ilka and Andreas Ruby will give a lecture. Trained as architects and architecture historians they are the founding partners of Textbild, an agency of architectural communication founded in 2001.
A Secret Cabin Inside Of A Boulder
Somewhere in the Alps a small designer cabin is hidden inside of a giant boulder. Camouflaged in the surrounding landscape and located around 2,300 meters above sea level in the Les Ruinettes sculpture park, you'll have a hard time finding this small one-person house.
Vacant Shopping Malls Get New Life As E-Commerce Data Centers
The contrast couldn't be bigger — big data rooms that support e-commerce move into former shopping malls that have been left vacant. So is the Internet going to occupy the shopfronts that the rise of online shopping emptied out before?
Street Lab Cooking Up Hyper-Local Food Trends
Ever wondered what your region would plate up as an example of its bioregionalism? Probably not. But, the folks at The Centre For Genomic Gastronomy have deployed their pop-up food lab, LOCI, to the streets of the world to tackle that question for you.
Young Creatives Swap Their Lives For Timberland Campaign
American shoe manufacturer Timberland took the saying "Put yourself in someone else's shoes" literally and made a project called Life Swaps where young creatives exchanged their routines, hobbies, friends and environment for 3 whole days.
Carry Someone Else’s Package And Earn Some Extra Money
In a world of peer-to-peer communities we have a new member: Carry. "Carry is an online peer to peer marketplace that connects people who need to ship things with travelers who can carry packages for them."
Cell Phone Storage Van For Brooklyn High Schoolers
Safe 'n' Secure Cellutions LLC sounds like a name of a high-end corporation but is in fact far away from it. It's a small business run by Jhonn de La Puente through a custom made whole on the side of his van. What does he do? He stores cell phones.
Zero Waste Dining
Brighton's newest restaurant SILO has adopted an interesting slant on sustainable behaviour by utilizing a pre-industrial food system which generates zero waste. Sounds great,but what does it all mean?
7UP Sends Yarn-Bombed Bus Around London
In a world saturated by celebrity endorsements, 7UP have decided to endorse impressive individuals in their new “Feels Good To Be You” campaign.
WTPh?: The Speaker That Pronounces Street Names
WTPh? (What the Phonics?) is an interactive installation that pronounces Danish street names in Copenhagen and saves you a lot of trouble when explaining the taxi driver where to pick you up.
Neglected Pool In Tokyo Gets A New Life As An Urban Concept Store
A pool that used to host residential swimmers in an apartment building in one of Tokyo's wealthiest districts, Aoyama, is now hosting freshly designed trendy clothes in a store set up inside of it.
Play Pong At The Traffic Light
Back in 2012 we wrote about an urban game STREETPONG played while waiting at the traffic light. We are happy to hear and spread the word that the project got the green light and that the game is now installed at one of the intersections in Hildesheim, Germany.
