Indoor Vintage Campground Is Bonn’s Newest Hostel
A new concept hostel has opened doors in Bonn, Germany. Located inside a former storage facility, the BaseCamp Young Hostel Bonn is a concept that lies between a campsite and a hostel. All the 'rooms' of the hotel are spiced-up camping trailers and other retro vehicles.
Interactive Installations Take Over Empty Office Floor
Today, the 28th of September, the HOT100 2013 who where selected by The New Institute, will finish off the HOT100 Days at TodaysArt Festival in The Hague with the HOT100 Show where the public will get a chance to meet and get to know more of the most talented graduates in the creative sector the Netherlands has to offer this year.
Parasite Exhibition Pops up at a Dry Cleaner’s
A few weeks ago I came across a rather peculiar invitation to a fashion exhibit in Amsterdam. The information text was stamped on a ticket that customers receive when they leave their dirty clothes at the dry cleaner's. The piece of paper invited me to an exhibition of Dutch fashion designer Elisa van Joolen, that took place inside an ordinary dry cleaner's shop.
Abandoned Ministry Building Turns Into A Digital Media Playground
This weekend, Netherlands's hottest new generation in e-culture, the HOT100, are coming to The Hague. They will be buzzing around at TodaysArt, a festival about new media and urban regeneration. Boasting already with an overwhelmingly rich program the HOT100, which were selected by The New Institute last month, will find themselves in aww once they see their venue. The outer shell of the events will be no less but the giant empty building of the former Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations.
DIY Wayfinding Helps Growing Community Sense
Urban designer Matt Tomasulo has launched Walk [Your City], a website that enables users to generate custom street signs in order to improve walkability of their neighborhood. Main objectives of the platform are building a local sense of community and helping citizens becoming more engaged.
Kashgar: World Capital Of Electric Scooters
You’d probably not expect it here, but in the relatively unknown Chinese city of Kashgar the electric scooter is emerging quickly as a dominant means of transport. How come that the electric scooter is doing so well in Kashgar while the rest of the world still suffers from dirty ‘regular' scooters? Can we actually learn something from the ‘Kashgar Approach’?
HOT100 Presents A New Generation Of Creators
Want to know what the Dutch creative scene has in store for the upcoming years? Be sure to check out the HOT100, a pool of the most talented graduates in 2013 from various Dutch academies, universities and schools in the fields of media, art and technology!
Court On Wheels Hits The Roads Of Pakistan
In this article we introduce you to a new concept — Justice on the Go. The local authorities of Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have introduced mobile courts. The aim of this initiative is to bring low-cost and quick justice to the doorsteps of the people.
Modular Parks On Wheels Pop Up In Azerbaijan’s Capital
Rebar Group and N55 have joined forces to create a modular pop-up park called Parkcycle Swarm. The design, a combination of a park and a bicycle, is built to be moved around the city and instantly greenify urban spaces.
Tiny Pop-Up Modules Change The Way Students Are Housed
Swedish architecture firm Tengbom have designed an innovative, sustainable and extremely compact solution for student housing. Next year, 22 wooden pop-up modules will be built at Lund's university campus in Sweden. The small houses can easily be moved around, which makes the concept flexible and easy to implement on a temporary basis. It gives universities the option to quickly adapt their student housing to number of registered students.
Turning An Ordinary Bike Lane Into Something Playful
How to stimulate people to cycle to work instead of taking the car? To promote the so-called Bike to Work Week, Canadian designer Greg Papove turned an ordinary bike lane in Vancouver into a playful piece of infrastructure by installing a series of ‘Whoopdeedoo’-ramps.
Back To Nature 3D Printing
These days all the rage is about 3D printing. Many say that it will change life as we know it — once it is technically mature. For now though, let's be honest, 3D printing still remains simply a fun gadget to experiment with. So, while we are still in the developing phase it surely does not hurt to have a look at Mother Nature who has for ages already come up with her very own and unique ways of 3D printing. Who knows, maybe we can learn something as so often has been the case.
Win Tickets For Sissel Tolaas’s Lecture At Stroom!
On 19 September internationally renown scent expert Sissel Tolaas will give a lecture on her smell research and her practice as an odor artist. Her lecture will kick-off Stroom's The Knight's Move lecture series in The Hague. For this occasion, we are happy to give away 2x2 tickets!
Rooftop Gardens On Moving Buses
Environmental awareness has risen exponentially in recent years and people have regrown a strong urge to surround themselves with anything green amidst vast concrete jungles. Vertical gardens, urban farming, guerrilla gardening are only a few phenomena that have only recently entered our daily lives. It is surprising why nobody had thought of it much earlier. Luckily, greening the city has gained a huge fan community. Landscape artist Marc Grañén, in collaboration with Grupo IRACO, takes it to the next level by using vehicle roofs as flower beds, turning unused space into little oases.
WorkScape: New Spaces For New Work
Grey walls, rows of working zombies, a never-ending flow of coffee — does this sound familiar to you? Let's hope not, otherwise, immediately grab a copy of WorkScape: New Spaces For New Work. Sofia Borges, Sven Ehmann, and Robert Klanten from the publishing house Gestalten have carefully picked the most stunning and innovative workplaces from around the world to give companies and employees inspirational fodder on how workplaces could look like and should be nowadays.
