Little Sun is a tiny gadget of … [Read more...]
BRAZIL / RODRIGO ALMEIDA & MARCELO ROSENBAUM :: SAMESAME BUT DIFFERENT
September 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Brazil : identity is mainly defined by an extraordinary mix of cultures. For as Brazil is imposing itself at rapid speed as a … [Read more...]
CUBA/ ERNESTO OROZA AND THE CUBANS’ TECHNOLOGICAL DISOBEDIENCE
September 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The term Technological Disobedience was recently coined by the Cuban artist and designer Ernesto Oroza to summar ize and … [Read more...]
TAIWAN/ MINIWIZ :: ECO-ARK PAVILLON + POLLI-BRICK:: RECYCLING PETT-BOTTLES (2010)
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PET-bottles are an enormous polluter: plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting, while 80% never get recycled. … [Read more...]
KENYA/SWEDEN KARIN LISMAN ao: JaniPad (2009-ONGOING)
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE _ Roughly 900,000 girls in Kenya miss four days of school every month due to a lack of sanitary pads … [Read more...]
VENEZULA/ CARACAS :: METRO CABLE, San Agustín, CARACAS, by ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG, HUBERT KLUMPNER & URBAN THINK TANK (2003-2010)
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TRAVELING IN AMOR _ How can one infuse a metropolis with more mobility, and therefore also with more equality and liberty, … [Read more...]
UNITED KINGDOM / DENMARK /ARGENTINA :: NINA TOLSTRUP & STUDIOMAMA: RE-IMAGINED CHAIRS & PALLET PROJECT
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Made from discarded and reclaimed furniture pieces, and now also shortlisted for the London Design Museum Design of the Year … [Read more...]
AUSTRIA: MISCHER’TRAXLER: THE IDEA OF A TREE
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A machine that lets its produce be guided by the amount of light it receives ? At the centre of society and social innovation … [Read more...]
AFGHANISTAN / NETHERLANDS :: MINE KAFON BY MASSOUD HASSANI
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
APART FROM BEING A MOST POETIC OBJECT WITH A FLOWER POWER THAT GOES BACK TO THE DESIGNER’S CHILD MEMORIES, THE RECENTLY … [Read more...]
NORWAY: HVELV: SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT. (2008-ONGOING)
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Funded by the Norvegian Government and the Global Crop Diversity Trust,the Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers the possibility … [Read more...]
Spain : Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant generates electricity at night (2011-ONGOING)
September 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Recently completed the Gemasolar Solar Power Plant near Seville in southern Spain does not just look endlessly more … [Read more...]
TOOLS :: SIMON BERRY: Colalife (2009–ONGOING)
September 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Launched by Simon Berry to get life saving medicine as efficiently as possible to isolated places worldwide, his non-profit … [Read more...]
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