Bus Stops That Make You Linger
Project Bus:Stop by Kultur Krumbach managed to lure international architects to the middle of nowhere in order to design a small commodity for nearly no pay. How, you may ask? Well, let us just say: Seven bus stops, seven architecture firms, and one sleepy village in Austria.
An Urban Plug-In Park That Tastes Like Coke
Spicing up public spaces with little interventions is something urban hackers have been busy with for quite some years. Also brands start to see a potential way of being visible in cities by improving the public realm through branded hacks, such as Coca-Cola, that introduces a truck that's able to roll out an urban park.
Now, Don’t Forget To Fold Inn Your Room, Will Ya?
Fellow workers out there, listen up! Think of all the situations you would have preferred to have your bed right next to your desk. Think of all the times you wanted to sleep in your own bed and, instead, had to turn to an expensive hotel or a budget hostel. Fold Inn could send all these problems to the past as this expandable bedroom is easy to store away and set up again within seconds.
Solar Cells For Cheap, Cheap Soon
Implementing solar energy in one's daily life involves a huge effort and a heavily loaded bank account - so most people think. But times have changed and fact is that you see more and more roofs covered in solar panels and self-charging electronic devices these days. Solar panels have become cheaper, easier to handle and technology is constantly improving. Yet, solar power has still not become the norm. The possibility of printing solar cells of the size of an A3 sheet of paper may finally take solar power to the masses and make renewable energy hopefully soon our number one source.
Floating Farms Ensure Food Security In Coastal Megacities
The prognosis for the future: extreme population growth, urbanization, climate change, rising sea levels and desertification. As a consequence, the demand for food will grow exorbitantly. The present possible solution for the already on-going world food system crisis: SeaLeaf - a floating agricultural platform for coastal megacities based on hydroponic farming.
FANs Cam Gets You Closer Than Any Viewer Has Ever Been
Imagine you could be Cristiano Ronaldo, Dirk Nowitzki or Roger Federer just for a brief moment in your life. Play the same game, do what he does, see what he sees. The FANs Cam can make your dream come true, well, at least the latter.
Algae Farming On Bangkok Rooftops
In Bangkok local downtown restaurants now serve fresh algae in their meals. The innovative rooftop farmers of EnerGaia have discovered that the rooftops of the city's skyscrapers are perfect spots for producting the green vitamin-rich power food. Eating slimy green algae is probably not the first thing you think about when you enter a Thai restaurant, but hey, it’s healthy and very local.
Designers Make Cape Town’s Public Space Their Office
One day every month, design firm Studio Shelf sets up its office in public spaces across Cape Town in order to connect and interact with curious people on the street.
Obscure Cities On The Other Side Of The Sun
As the authors behind the graphic novel series Les Cités Obscures published by Casterman the two Belgian comics artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters have been sketching, drawing and writing since the early 1980s - and are going strong ever since. Schuiten, as the designer behind this bande dessinée, is busy with the artwork while Peeters, the novelist, provides the text. Both were born in the year 1956 and have known each other since they were classmates in the 1960s where they had already collaborated on the school newspaper.
Mobile Town Square Pops Up In North West London
Cricklewood, a community in North West London, has no town hall, no library, no town square, not even a single bench. Last month, a mobile town square on wheels finally changed this and gave the town the public space they deserved.
This Happens When You Put Creative Minds Into A Pressure Cooker
On Friday September 27, during the HOT100 Days, hosted by The New Institute, the former building of the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations was transformed into a pressure cooker for the young creatives. The newest generation of Dutch new media graduates were asked to crack several societal issues in a series of workshops. What kind of ideas did they come up with?
SQFT: A Matchmaking Service For Temporary Spaces
SQFT is a new online matchmaking service in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood that aims to connect young businesses and organizations with short-term spaces in the city.
Emergency Housing In No More Than 5 Hours
Last weekend, the most talented Dutch graduates in the creative sector, aka the HOT100 2013, came together to combine all of their brain power during the HOT100 Days in The Hague under the supervision of The New Institute. We had the chance to meet some of them and we could not help but to notice one particular project by the recent graduate cum laude from Delft University of Technology Pieter Stoutjesdijk who has created a design for emergency housing that can be set up within astonishing 5 hours only.
Black Spider Gives New Life To Abandoned Military Airbase
In collaboration with Studio Frank Havermans, our friends of Rietveld Landscape recently launched a new structure that gives new life to a former military airbase near the Dutch village of Soesterberg.
Electric Public Bus Recharges On The Move
Truth be told, who wouldn't love to be all green-savvy and cruise around in an environmental-friendly electric car if you could afford it and spare the time to recharge? But then, there is also the fear of running out of power in the middle of a junction, or worse, in the middle of nowhere. Yet, we all agree that electric cars are a great invention. The city of Gumi in South Korea now put all excuses aside and took public transportation to the next level by enabling public buses to run on electric power. What's new? They do not have to stop to re-"fuel" - not once.
