1000 places of Amsterdam ground were given away to China and the Oekrains. Space To Take Place consists of a long red bench on the newly poldered IJburg living area. Each seat on this bench acts as real estate to be given away by Dutch ambasadors abroad. Architect Claudia Linders won a competition for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was hosted by Droog design.
As paperfree offices tend to be only paperless, large printer manufacturers like Océ and Xerox are developing ink that will disappear after 24 hours, so that paper can be reused up to 100 times. Good, but how does this add up to the unhealthy particles printers already spit out? Michael Braungart told me that Océ is also producing a printer that actually cleans the air. On show at Nutec c2c fair.
No ink, no glue, no paper but still an eye catching poster in the urban landscape. Using only a template, clean water and a spraying system, GreenGraffiti washes a communication message out of the dirt on surfaces in cities throughout the world.” It’s Alexander Orion’s reverse grafitti gone commercial.
A two hour exclusive interview with Michael Braungart, the cradle to cradle guru, tomorrow in Rotterdam. I’m feeling panicky. What an opportunity to ask him about his new book, what he feels about C2C not as a total solution but as only part of a proces to make implementation more practical, and what a designer who cannot pay for Braungarts chemical support can do to get involved. PS where did Bill McDonough go?
The dilemma of space versus cosiness is addressed in Villa1. Extreme openness is made by leaving out doors and constructive walls. All gravity goes through the furniture. To create a snug atmosphere the 250 m2 plan is divided into an ypsilon. The grand view is framed by white ceiling and walls, as if it were a painting. Villa1’s is nominated for the AM/NAi architecture prize.
Greensulate, a fungus that grows in 14 days to be used instead of styrofoam is the winner of the PicNic Green Challenge. Runner uppers: routeRANK that navigates the shortest, fastest and CO2 friendliest route, Veranda Solar that makes a 150 dollar plug+play solar panel and SmartScreen that makes an Institut du Monde Arabe-like shape changing sunscreen.
Back from holiday in Surinam, a former Dutch colony in the tropics. A country where ‘eco’ relates to low budgets. Where a shop sells autoparts next to watches, where a mosk lays next to a sinagoge. A country that is growing it’s own colony in the form of a garbage patch in the Atlantic, according to what I saw on the Surinam river banks. Thanks for a different view, Surinam!
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