Using Sidewalks to Mitigate Climate Change
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.Continue Reading
Turning Parking Meters Into Urban Communication Systems
City Tickets harnesses the full potential of parking meters, turning them into two-way communication systems between the city and citizen.Continue Reading
Future Food Production Centers: Traffic Roundabouts
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.Continue Reading
The Power of Conditional Thinking: “This Could Be…”
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.Continue Reading
Adding Pop-Up Umbrellas to Street Lights
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.Continue Reading
Revealing the Hidden Potential of the City: Interview with Totally Stockholm Magazine
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.”Continue Reading
Upcycling Urban Trash in Amsterdam
Goedzak is a specially designed bag that makes sharing and re-use is as easy as taking out the trash.Continue Reading