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1. " The idea came … while I was looking for a parking space in a residential suburb in San Francisco near a major baseball ground. There was a lack of on-street parking but plenty of unused residential parking available. I wanted to knock on the lady’s door, offer her a “tenner” and it’s win-win!
This is the difference with parallel villages. Its about fulfilment, not sustainability. Sustainable is a given, but not the goal. If we can cause such places to come into being, it makes the developer’s life much easier, as naturally we can expect very high sales demand for such homes and workplaces – especially if we can make them affordable.
2011年9月8日 · Glyphiti. by Andy Deck. Andy's Deck's Glyphiti is an artistic experiment in extending the reaches of public art. Converting the clandestine creativity of the graffiti artist into something more openly available, Deck developed a globally accessible drawing wall. Built of editable 'glyphs' - squares simultaneously reminiscent of hieroglyphics ...
Description. WAMOTOPIA 2023: From December 16, 2023, to January 1, 2024, Wamians will jointly undertake a profound exploration of the future world, weaving a spectacular emergence, a prototype society of the future in Chiang Mai.
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Ezio Manzini: "There is an urgent need to promote neweconomic models, new production systemsand new ideas of well-being. To define andimplement these new models is, of course,very difficult. But it is not impossible. And wedo not have to start from zero. Indeed, over the last few decades, amultiplicity of social “actors” (including institutions,ent...
Ezio Manzini: "These three examples of a new kind of relationship betweenfarmers and citizens and between food and agricultureare emblematic of a larger wave of social innovation3 thatis taking place around the world. Not only are we seeing anew way of eating emerging, a new relationship betweenproduction and consumption and between the city and th...
Sustainable Everyday Project http://www.sustainable-everyday.net and DESIS, http://www.desis-network.org ; SEP, http://www.sustainable-everyday.net.E.F Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, Economics as if People Mattered (London: Blond and Briggs, 1973).Francois Jegou and Ezio Manzini, Collaborative Services: Social innovation and design for sustainability, (Milano: Polidesign,Ainonghui, Farmers’ association, Liuzhou, Guangxi
"In 2005, in Liuzhou, Guangxi (China), a group of citizensfound that they could not access good, safe food in theordinary markets. They went to some villages, about atwo hour drive from the city, and found that traditionalagriculture models, though struggling, still survived inthe remote countryside. With the intention of helpingthe poor farmers and developing a stable channel ofgood, organic food, they found a social enterprise,Ainonghui. Today, this farmers’ association manages four organic...
Little Donkey Farm, Beijing, China
"Started in 2008, Little Donkey Farm is China’s firstcommunity-supported agricultural model. Locatedin a suburb of Beijing, about two hours drive fromthe city centre, the farm has, to date, 200 memberswho share the farm activities and 400 members whosubscribe to a weekly home delivery of a box of farmproduce. Already, the farm is the hub of an innovativefood network in Beijing with increasing numbers of eco-friendly and organic farms joining. The ultimate goal is to turn Little Donkey Farm in...
Hansalim, South Korea
"Launched in 1986, Hansalim is a Korean foodcooperative. As of August 2010, it boasts 2,302,000consumers and 2000 producers from 19 differentregions in South Korea. 2009 sales amounted to €100million. Hansalim (Korean for “save all living things”), aims topreserve the ecosystem while rebuilding communitieswhere producers and consumers are connected. Inan effort to support sustainable agriculture, 76% ofthe sales goes to producers and the balance is ear-marked as the cooperative’s operating co...
P2P Parking = facilitating finding parkings spots through a p2p application. Example: SpotScout. URL = http://www.spotscout.com/ Description. "The idea is that if you know you are about to leave your parking space, you send a message via your phone to SpotScout. That information is then broadcast to the mobile phones of people looking for a park.
Description. "Why Citizen Spring? "The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet" - somebody famous. In the face of the climate emergency, the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis we need to change the way we live and work.
