We Own The City: Enabling Community Practice In Architecture And Urban Planning
Earlier this year, our friends over at CITIES have launched their second book, We Own the City. The book is all about how traditional top-down players rethink their processes to enable more involvement from the local community.
Inflato Dumpster: Hacking Into New York’s Street Structures
The imagination of John H Locke and his design partner Joaquin Reyes, has given birth to the “Inflato Dumpster,” a project designed to hack the urban experience by providing a meeting point for the masses, to be educated or educate.
Wheely’s: The First Global Food Cart Franchise
Wheely's Café is a café franchise on wheels that wants to become a global brand with Wheely's parked in cities all around the world. Starbucks be afraid, be very afraid.
The End Of Sitting
Most of our surroundings are designed for sitting down, but what if we stood up? The End of Sitting by studio RAAAF and visual artist Barbara Visser is a large-scale installation which explores ways to work standing up.
Spherials: Pop-Up Communities On Demand
Feeling lonely in the park? Reluctantly going solo to an event? Spherials can help. Designed to generate impromptu socialising in ways never manifested before, Spherials is being hyped as the creator of “local communities, which can pop up anywhere and anytime.”
Donuts In A Car Wash
Eateries are constantly popping up in the most unlikely of places, the latest of which calls a car wash its home. Parked inside Westside Highway Car Wash, you will find Underwest Donut where Scott Levine, cake enthusiast, created a mini, pastry paradise after ditching his job as a sous chef.
Utrecht’s Wardrobe Library
Let's face it, there's nothing like having a good look through your friend's wardrobe when you're stuck for something to wear. Well, the girls behind De Kledingbibliotheek (Apparel Library) are offering just this but on a massive, walk-in, citywide scale.
Designers And Street Vendors Together In A Street Assembly
Street Assembly Line is a project that aims to connect street vendors with the designers and open up the way to all the possibilities that can be obtained from this collaboration.
Rotating Bench Offers Dry Buttocks After Rain
Public benches stay wet after the rain has gone, and no one likes wet buttocks. South Korean-based designer Sung Woo Park came up with a solution that always offers a dry seat.
RE-Place Old Windows And Doors Into A New Public Space
RE-place is a modular structure: a unit, where old doors and windows from the buildings are replaced outside to act as a new kind of fence.
Priority Seats For New Friendships
Feeding Friendships is a Brazilian campaign that introduces stickers in order to nurture friendships and social interaction between passengers in public buses.
Providing Opportunities For Homeless, One Shower At A Time
Non-profit organization Lava Mae has transformed an old city bus into a mobile shower room for San Francisco's homeless.
Converting 8m2 Into A Home
8m2 is a pretty unliveable amount of space. What if we told you that the masterminds at Kitoko Studio decided to make it into a livable 8m2.
The Temple Of Holy Shit
Collective Disaster has a new way to make money. Turning shit into something holier... soil. This magnificently green initiative is taking place in an unused urban space in Brussels, combining innovative business structures, social schemes, witty architecture and science.
Run Your Office On A Sail Boat
SpaceMarket has given the business world an infusion of freshness. Following Airbnb's footsteps, the Japanese startup is offering unused venues for corporate meetings, team building events or pitch sessions.
