Marcia Caines

artwork Mario Suarez, image Cluster
Today cities are home to over half of the world’s population, and according to The United Nations Habitat report, this figure is set to reach 75% by 2050. The success or failure, growth or decline, of cities directly contributes to the overall condition of the planet and the wellbeing of [...]

Jeremy Rifkin, founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends and creator of the Third Industrial Revolution (TIR), has launched his new book The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World of Crisis on the Huffington Post with a featured blog post as well as the Table of Contents, Introduction, [...]

24 November 2050. Singapore. Planet Earth. ICSID Conference opening. The meta-interplanetary meeting of designers
Alok Nandi

ICSID World Design Congress 2009 Singapore and Co-Creation, Copenhagen, August 29 2009
Arnold Wasserman, the Master of Ceremonies at this unique gathering, invites the audience to cast their minds back to 2009, for a « flash-back » to how designers and experts [...]

The Danish humanitarian design program Index: Design To Improve Life, reached another important milestone on December 4 2009 when the network’s CEO Kigge Hvid took home to Copenhagen the prestigious Hong Kong Design Centre’s 2009 Design Leadership Award, confirming its position as one of the worlds fastest growing design organizations.
Kigge Hvid was the first [...]

Above is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary from East Bay Pictures: Edible City which unfolds the story of the people who, in response to the global food crisis, have initiated a grassroots movement of growing a local and sustainable food system in the Bay Area of San Francisco.
Edible City is currently in production and [...]