Local, Authentic, Sustainable: The Style Of The New Artisan Economy
The so-called New Artisan Economy has become hotter than hot in our cities. This trend is especially visible in the form of new, small-scale companies focusing on local craftsmanship. Consumers are more and more demanding for local products that are produced in a sustainable way, with care for the environment. Keywords in the New Artisan Economy are local, authentic and sustainable, whether we're talking chocolate, jeans or bicycles.
Part-Own Everything You Desire With OwnMutually
Winning a trophy for a group effort often comes with the question ‘who is going to keep it?’ Seldom one person is chosen as the ‘trophy-bearer’ and one strategy is to alternate possession of the trophy between all members of the group. The same sort of ownership-tension can exist when you purchase something that is used by a group or community, for example a microwave for your dormitory. Australia-based OwnMutually takes this concept and applies it to anything you can imagine where both initial investments and ownership are shared.
Juice On The Go
For regular readers of our blog, it’s easy to tell that vending machines and food trucks get us going! Well, an LA-based, organic, detox juice company named Kreation features both our obsessions.
Mobile Café In Denver Turns Coffee Into An Urban Strategy
We get really excited when we come across projects that not only feature pop-up urbanism, but also promote alternative models of urban daily life. Public Coffee is a Denver-based collaboration among many interdisciplinary creative parties, such as designers, social artists, educators, coffee visionaries, social workers, businessmen, a farmer’s market director, and an architect. They have decided to take the concept of the coffee shop one step further in indie entrepreneurialism and deeper in society.
Pop-Up Shop Opens on the Information Superhighway
During five years of blogging about ideas that make a change in cities we've built a giant collection of pop-up things — from shops and galleries to houses, entire neighborhoods and even cities. All these examples are physical. A few days ago, however, we stumbled upon Quitokeeto, one of the world's first online pop-up shops.
5000 Payphones Relive New York City’s Gritty 90s
Recalling 1993 is a project that pays homage to NYC’s relatively recent past. It is an immersive journey into New York in 1993 -- its people, streetscapes, and stories. The project looks past the contemporary glitz and intense capital investment of today to a much different city whose tough reputation kept most people away. As you will discover with the project, despite its bad reputation, New York City was home to a tight and vibrant community with its own landmarks, villains, mascots and heroes.
Tell Others About Usable Trash In Your Neighborhood With Trashswag
Passing by a pile of trash on the street you often spot stuff that is still usable. But most of the times it's not the right moment to take it, it's not the item that you need or you don't have enough space to store it. In that case it would be great to tell others about it and give them the opportunity to pick it up. That's what becomes possible with Trashswag, a recently launched app that makes collecting trash and recycling social.
Smile-Bot Spreads Happiness In Public Space
"Smile though your heart is aching, smile even though it’s breaking", wrote John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons in 1954 as lyrics for Charlie Chaplin’s song ‘Smile’. Even through all our sorrows and hardships, smiling is something we ought to do continuously, they claimed, and how right they were. Nowadays the world is not all fun and games and of course a smile can be further away than one might wish to admit, so for the moments where a smile is not at hand, there is Smile-Bot, who wants to fill your world with joy and laughter.
Empty Shop Re-Used As Central City Wardrobe
The StadsGarderobe ('City Wardrobe') is an empty shop in the center of Groningen, Netherlands, that has been transformed into a central wardrobe for the city. People that visit the city for shopping during the day and people that go out at night can use the City Wardrobe to leave their jacket, bag, or all other items they don't want to carry.
Follow The Map To Find The Exclusive Single Copy Of Dodo Magazine
Dodo Magazine is gearing up for the release of its first issue on April 5. But -- that’s the thing -- there’s only going to be one single copy printed and released, and it’s up to you to get your hands on that one-of-a-kind edition, the "most exclusive magazine in the world". On April 5, on its website and Facebook page, Dodo Magazine will releasing a map of where to find the single copy of the magazine, and then the race is on!
Sidewalk Billboards Double As Furnished Walls For Houses
HomePro, one of the biggest household hardware and furniture stores in Thailand, came up with a rather remarkable ad campaign. As a part of the recently launched Other Side campaign, the company designed and created sidewalk billboards that double as walls for small houses.
H&M Launches New Line For Urban Bike Fashionistas
These days nothing seems to be worse than riding your bicycle and realizing that you’re not looking fancy enough. It can ruin a great bike trip, so for the people who often encounter such a moment, H&M paired up with hip-and-happening Brick Lane Bikes to enhance creative bike culture and snazz up your cycling outfits!
Nomadic Creative Agency Pops Up Around The World
The more humanity becomes portable, the more work gets flexible. Two years ago we claimed that the new office is no office. Following that idea, a group of students at Hyper Island decided to tour the world and pop up as a creative agency where needed.
Meta Food Truck Stimulates Favela Economy
As you’ve read on Pop-Up City, food trucks have been “all the rage” in cities around the world for the past few years. Here’s a project in Brazil that takes a different spin on the concept: food trucks that, rather than selling food, are training people how to prepare food and manage their own culinary businesses (and maybe even their own food trucks!).
Twitter Tongues Shows Geographical Multilinguality Of London And NYC
Twitter truly seems to be an all-knowing entity. If we would like to see how many people are talking about chipmunks in Italy, it could tell us in a second, with even more precise data for regions and cities. Twitter Tongues uses Twitter to show us the languages of tweets sent from London and New York in the summer of 2012, and provides a unique look into these multilingual cities.
