REPURPOSING URBAN OBJECTS FOR NEW USE
Lava Mae has converted city buses into mobile shower and sanitation units for the homeless. The new use for city buses allow the organization to bring services directly to urban areas with high concentrations of homeless people.
As part of a “Green Innovation” initiative, Telekom Austria’s A1 division has been replacing underused phone booths with EV Charging Stations.
Third Nature’s Climate Tile system makes sidewalks an active participant in battling climate change by harnessing and handling rainwater more efficiently, easing problems with urban flooding during severe weather, and using the water to benefit urban nature at all other times.
City Tickets harnesses the full potential of parking meters, turning them into two-way communication systems between the city and citizen.
Belatchew Arkitekter calculates that by repurposing nine specific roundabouts throughout the city into insect farms and insect-based food production complexes known as “Buzzbuildings,” Stockholm could become a pioneer in the global quest for future urban food solutions.
There has never been a time with greater need to tap into the power of conditional thinking than today. By looking at something and thinking “This Could Be…” a vast realm of possibility opens.
The Lampbrella is an attachment for urban street lights that unfolds into an umbrella to shelter pedestrians who have been caught in a quick downpour.
Interview with Totally Stockholm Magazine: “Burnham quotes the late comedian Bill Hicks: “The next revolution will be a revolution of ideas” and hopes for a revolution in how we think about the potential for the existing urban landscape.”
Goedzak is a specially designed bag that makes sharing and re-use is as easy as taking out the trash.