Energy Rehab is an interaction design concept developed by Marcin Ignac and Nina B. Nygaard Christoffersen, students of the Interaction Design Pilot Year in Copenhagen, a joint initiative between the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and the Danish Design School (DKDS). Energy Rehab Program utilizes interaction design technologies to engage users in efficiently organizing [...]

Peripheral Landscapes, by architects and multimedia designers Sarah Lorenzen, David Hartwell of Plasmatic Concepts was shown on Saturday July 11 2009 at the 9th edition of the Beyond Media Festival: Visions
The video captures how informal urban development in Mexico City is changing the city in both its social and economic dynamics as well as [...]

São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and South America, spawns a unique form of graffiti: Pixação
Pixação, distinguished for its simple and angular lines is covering buildings high and low throughout São Paulo. Although this phenomenon is fiercely unpopular in Brazil, in Paris the director of the Cartier Foundation has called ‘Pixo writers’ to paint [...]

Utrecht Manifest is a multidisciplinary social design biennale held in the city of Utrecht, home of the De Stijl movement in the early 1920s.
The Biennial’s third edition, UM 2009, will take place from October 4 to 17 2009 and will explore the potential of contemporary design as a social tool through the cultural models [...]

L’Arca, international Magazine of Architecture, Design, and Visual Communication has opened up to ‘guest editors’. The publication will be dedicating 32 pages per month to a professional architect of their choice, offering them the freedom to write and illustrate their reflections and opinions on architecture, design and the built environment.
By offering the guest editors [...]