Marcia Caines On November 24, during the course of the Eindhoven Summit on Innovation in Cities organized by Living Labs Global and the City of Eindhoven, Cluster facilitated a visioning workshop entitled ‘Sustainable Tourism’. The visioning workshop program is part of Living Labs Global’s matchmaking activities, the purpose of which is not to produce a [...]

Submission for the 2012 edition of the Living Lab Global Award, an intiative of Living Labs Global in collaboration with Oracle, CityMart.com and The Climate Group, is open. The year the award brings together 20 global cities commited to finding innovative solutions to pressing urban problems and hundreds of international technology and service solution providers [...]

Interview by Marcia Caines version pdf ‘Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend’ is a comprehensive handbook by Aida Esteban Millat, Sascha Haslemayer and Jakob H Rasmussen that illustrates through a selection of handpicked case studies how innovation in services and mobility can contribute to improving the economical, environmental and social values of our cities [...]

The second issue of SEE Bulletin, the only publication entirely dedicated to exploring matters related to design policies and programmes for design support across Europe and beyond, has just been released and it’s really good! A ‘must’ for anyone interested in issues concerning design and innovation policies. Contents include a research paper by Prof. John [...]

Above is data derived from a visual text comparison tool [blprnt.com] developed by artist Jer Thorp using Processing v.1.0. The tool enables a simple comparison of two texts based on their word usage. In this case the comparison is made between two open addresses delivered by President Barack Obama: on the far left his speech [...]