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IBM’s “People For Smarter Cities”
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Narrowest house in the world
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Field of Ice Flowers
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The wheel house
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Nike + Doubleyou
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Temple in Antis / AG “LesoSplaw”
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Floating Forest by NIPpaysage
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Strawscraper by Henning Larsen Architects (Urban Power Plant)
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Impluvium / NIP Paysage
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Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants
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MTG SELECTION
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Hitachi’s Seaside Park: a Floral Tsunami
A perfect example of overcoming tragedy by means of the collective celebration of landscape
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Ricardo Bofill’s Cement Factory
from a ruin of industrial past to a jewel of contemporary domesticity
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Land of Giants
Mundane electrical pylons are transformed into statues walking across the Icelandic landscape
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Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
Critical documentary about the fierce process of megaurbanization of Istanbul
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The Water Tank Project
The old and characteristic water tanks over the New York’s roofs will be turned into aerial artworks
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
Amazing film that visualizes in a violent but sophisticated way how the industrial development has brought the occupation of our territory and, thus, all the consequent environmental problems.
MTG STORIES
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Geopark in Stavanger
Helen & Hard, by means of this park, show us how to build a place in the town of Stavanger with cultural and educative values. Children, parents and youngsters play and celebrate the everyday in a park that takes the figured form of the most important gas reservoir in Norway and which provides Stavanger with its richness and identity.
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VIA VERDE – The Green Way
When social housing really means “social”, life is collectively celebrated in a characteristically stepped architecture.
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Solar Decathlon Europe 2012
The sustainable and self sufficient houses of tomorrow become real today.
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THE CURITIBA OF JAIME LERNER
CREATIVE SUSTAINABILITY: A master lesson of HOW TO TURN PROBLEMS INTO OPPORTUNITIES
UNIVERSITIES
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fdp_GLEANER-VOUCHER by Julia Cervantes Corazzina
Reconstruction of the Street Markets’ system in the province of Alicante (Spain) in order to transform them into a technological, energetic and social infrastructure for innovation.
FOR CHILDREN
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The Cycling Superhighway
From bicycle routes to bicycle highways. This short film evidences the great benefits of such idea.
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Saga City
Amazing and lovely film pointing the Anglo-Saxon urban model as the responsible of our unsustainability.
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Juzcar: the smurfs village
What started as a movie set, ended providing identity features to a small Spanish village. What was supposed to…
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Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad,…
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Remind Me videoclip by Röyksopp
Videoclip illustrating the environmental cost of living and working in a city like London. Directed by H5, this video by…
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SOCCKET: the power-ball
Kick the ball, play, run, have fun, kick it hard…generate energy.
POLITICS
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IBM’s “People For Smarter Cities”
“IBM believes that city planning and design should have the citizens in mind. IBM’s “People For Smarter Cities” ads double…
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Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants
“If you’ve been in a restaurant kitchen, you’ve seen how much food, water and energy can be wasted there. Chef…
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Mercamadrid visualization
“MercaMadrid is the biggest infrastructure that supplies fresh food for the city and it is placed near the city center….
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Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?
“A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she’s…
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Chasing Ice
“Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of…
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Polar Apocalypse
“Ten percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in glacial snow and ice. As our planet heats up this frozen…
TECHNOLOGY
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Nike + Doubleyou
” Find a football field in the city is not always easy in a sea of concrete. Last week Nike…
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Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
“Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science…
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Window Socket
“We have seen many solar chargers in our day. Among all of them, the Window Socket is an idea so fabulously…
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Paul MacCready flies on solar wings
“Paul MacCready, an aircraft designer and environmentalist, is a pioneer of human-powered flight, alternative energy for transportation, and environmentally responsible…
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Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure
“For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible….
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Robin Chase on Zipcar and her next big idea
“Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much…
ARCHITECTURE
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Narrowest house in the world
“Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across at its widest point….
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Strawscraper by Henning Larsen Architects (Urban Power Plant)
“STRAWSCRAPER is an extension of Söder Torn on Södermalm in Stockholm with a new energy producing shell covered in straws…
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Impluvium / NIP Paysage
“Monumental rooftop artwork on the Belgo building that draws attention to the enormous surface and untapped potential which the city’s…
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Moving Forest / NL architect
”An old story where the trees move at night so that people would loose there way and could never get out…
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Bicyclope
“Bicyclope is the first collaboration between i Collective and Zuloark in order to develop urban furniture that produces energy….
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Stair Squares by Mark Reigelman
“People rest and relax on public steps anyway, why not give them a comfortable way to do so? Stair Squares,…
ART
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The wheel house
“The Wheel House is powered by repetitive kinetic motion: A male and a female performer, both dressed as hobos, repeatedly…
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Temple in Antis / AG “LesoSplaw”
“ Located on a hill, on the open area of the landscape, the simplest of a Greek temple is the templum…
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Floating Forest by NIPpaysage
“By NIPpaysage. 450 floating slices of tree create a mysterious forest, promoting Métis International Garden Festival on the Grand Union Canal at…
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Noémie Goudal
“Noémie Goudal has long been drawn to the meeting point of nature and culture, or as she puts it, the…
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Seeds of Change / Gitta Gschwendtner + Maria Thereza Alves
“Behind an exhaustive investigation of the ancient routes of navigation, Alves discovered that sailors used to fill ships’ ballast mixed up with soil, stones and seeds…
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Errant – Héctor Zamora
“Errant, an artwork by Héctor Zamora, located at Avenida do Estado, facing the city market, Mercado Municipal de São…
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
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IBM’s “People For Smarter Cities”
“IBM believes that city planning and design should have the citizens in mind. IBM’s “People For Smarter Cities” ads double…
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Impluvium / NIP Paysage
“Monumental rooftop artwork on the Belgo building that draws attention to the enormous surface and untapped potential which the city’s…
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TAPIS ROUGE!, GAËLLE VILLEDARY
“The artist based Gaëlle Villedary in Marseille has developed ‘tapis rouge!’, a grass carpet installation that charts a path 1400m…
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‘Double Happiness’ by Didier Faustino
“Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad…
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Bicyclope
“Bicyclope is the first collaboration between i Collective and Zuloark in order to develop urban furniture that produces energy….
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21 Swings
“21 Balançoires (21 Swings) is a giant collective instrument, a game where together we achieve better things than separately. When…
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
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Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?
“A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she’s…
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Roll it
“Various institutes within the University of Karlsruhe worked on this ingenious project called “Roll It”. The goal was to make…
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€URO: realising a fraud
LOOKING FOR FUNDING!!!: Documentary “€uro realising a fraud”. Based on Ricard Vergés economic studies.
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Dutch Resource by Next architects
“The base material for the exhibition consisted of over 600 large cardboard boxes, literally the building blocks. At the beginning…
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Living Without Money
“The documentary Living Without Money portraits the life of 68 year old Heidemarie Schwermer, a German woman who made a…
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DAS PARK HOTEL
“Three rooms constructed from repurposed, incredibly robust drain pipes. They lay on the grass in a park in the Austrian…
CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY
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Narrowest house in the world
“Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across at its widest point….
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The wheel house
“The Wheel House is powered by repetitive kinetic motion: A male and a female performer, both dressed as hobos, repeatedly…
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Nike + Doubleyou
” Find a football field in the city is not always easy in a sea of concrete. Last week Nike…
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Temple in Antis / AG “LesoSplaw”
“ Located on a hill, on the open area of the landscape, the simplest of a Greek temple is the templum…
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Floating Forest by NIPpaysage
“By NIPpaysage. 450 floating slices of tree create a mysterious forest, promoting Métis International Garden Festival on the Grand Union Canal at…
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Noémie Goudal
“Noémie Goudal has long been drawn to the meeting point of nature and culture, or as she puts it, the…
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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Field of Ice Flowers
“These strange ice structures are very rich in salt and bacteria—and very hard to pick, according to oceanography doctoral candidate…
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Strawscraper by Henning Larsen Architects (Urban Power Plant)
“STRAWSCRAPER is an extension of Söder Torn on Södermalm in Stockholm with a new energy producing shell covered in straws…
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Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants
“If you’ve been in a restaurant kitchen, you’ve seen how much food, water and energy can be wasted there. Chef…
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Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
“Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science…
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Window Socket
“We have seen many solar chargers in our day. Among all of them, the Window Socket is an idea so fabulously…
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Moving Forest / NL architect
”An old story where the trees move at night so that people would loose there way and could never get out…
