image Veloway Prompted by the results of a survey conducted by the Veolia Observatory of Urban lifestyles which ranked public transport as the number one concern for city dweller’s worldwide Veolia Transport developed ‘Veloway’ an automated bike sharing system. The system can be accessed by mobile telephone or a subsriber RFID card and has solar [...]

Review by Marcia Caines The delusion of an unsustainable economic system, along with the time required to forge a new one – based on innovation – and the scarcity of resources, have changed the leading trends in design: public space, recycling, re-use and open source technologies dominated the creative sphere of design at the international [...]

Marije Vogelzang and Joerg Suermann, © Rosa Merk, Courtesy DMY Berlin Marcia Caines met with the self-proclaimed ‘eating designer’ Mariie Vogelzang (Proef), Dutch designer and food specialist at the 7th edition of the DMY design festival in Berlin where Marije prepared a Dutch Design Dinner; an interactive, colour-coded experience based on the designer’s research on [...]