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Design to save the world: less materials, more service
"Do you know what the definitive solution for the world is?," asks Spanish architect Juli Capella. "I do," he answers himself. "No material." Capella dreams about a world sometime in the future where "the service of things exists, but not the materials."We're not there yet, but he sees ...
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3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Un urinario que no consume agua ni productos químicos
Los responsables de Urimat nos detallan el funcionamiento de su urinario, que no precisa de agua ni productos químicos, según la patente que la empresa posee sobre el producto.Según Urimat, su urinario "ecológico" está especialmente indicado para ser instalado en equipamientos públicos de envergadura, tales como centros de congresos ...
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1 week, 3 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A post-capitalist vision of design: happiness, not sales
Many of us see design as a luxury, elitist or something to drive sales. That, according to Spanish architect Juli Capella, is a dangerous mistake, not just for your personal happiness, but for the health of the planet. "Design is what has destroyed the planet, but the good news is ...
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3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The paradox of green building according to a green builder
Juli Capella has designed hotels with massive solar roofs and office buildings with living facades, but he doesn't believe in the existance of a truly sustainable building. "It's by definition because you are creating something that wasn't there, that will need energy".This doesn't mean builders ...
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1 week, 4 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Brightkite and faircompanies founders talk about happiness
Given that we work from home and are substantially downshifted (i.e. we are very salary-light), when we socialize, we often do it by inviting people to join us for a meal in our work/home space.Over the past year our mealtime conversations with expats, locals and visitors to ...
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2 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 8 comments
A March snowstorm in Barcelona: climate vs weather
March 8, 2010 and it snowed in Barcelona. This is a city where the average low temperature for the month is 9 degrees. The very unusual snowstorm caused the city to semi-shutdown: the buses stopped running, schools shut down and some neighborhoods lost electricity.El Niño probably played a hand ...
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2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A second look at Slow Design and when to respect petroleum
In reaction to fast food, fast fashion, fast information and the resulting disconnect between people, things and our environment, a movement has grown- slowly- over the past few decades among some designers who want to provide a "deep experience of the world" for the people who use their products.This ...
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2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A year without flying: a Skype family album
"Should it not be possible to see by telegraph...?"- Alexander Graham Bell, April 11, 1891.In 1930, New Yorkers- using a huge apparatus and a small loudspeaker- tested the first "2-way television in phoning", but it took the arrival of the Internet for video phoning to become available to the ...
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1 month, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 5 comments
A healthy, homemade fast food: rice balls
As a mom- and as a snacker- I'm always looking for more finger foods (especially anything vegetarian). Since lately my daughter has been asking for rice, I decided I wanted to try to make Japanese rice balls. I happened to be having lunch yesterday with a friend from Tokyo ...
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1 month, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Passive solar glass home: watching the sun move
Back in the late seventies when Cliff Butler was ready to build his dream home, he was looking for one thing: a southern-facing slope. This then-33-year-old pharmacist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina claims his friends thought he was crazy. He had never heard of global warming, but he liked to ...
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2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments