Carton is a symbol of consumerism and it is a material that highlights the abundance of materials in the world. It can contain food or objects of any type; it can be thrown away and recycled later on. But this time, it has been used as the main protagonist in the artwork of a young Chilean designer, Carolina Pino. Carolina is a brilliant NYU student, splitting her time between Santiago, Chile and New York. Her project is named “Shellhouse Living Portable.” The carboard house is equipped with a circuit that transmits radio signals and transforms a simple box into a traceable internet device. Through the internet connection, the “shellhouse” is visible online and traceable through the city on google maps.

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• http://carolinapino.net/
• http://www.shellhouse.org/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exld9HHWo5E

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All five senses are appealed to with the new cocoon helmet, which allows the user to be in any location or historical event and actually have all their senses stimulated simultaneously. The Virtual Cocoon will consist of a headset incorporating specially developed electronics and computing capabilities. The project leaders are scientists David Howard from the University of York, Alan Chalmers and Christopher Moir from University of Warwick, along with experts from the Universities of Bangor, Bedford, and Brighton.

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• http://www.davidhoward.co.uk/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Chalmers

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In the future, the term ‘ziggurat’ will no longer refers to the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian: Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe the sustainable city of the future. Using the basic idea of a pyramid structure, Timelinks has created renderings of a 100% self-sustainable and totally environmentally friendly super-structure. The city is planned to house more than 1 million inhabitants and will be a true architectural colossus.

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• http://www.timelinks.org

San Francisco designer, Joanna Borek-Clement has created an innovative architectural urban design that could alleviate pollution and overcrowded streets. Sky-Terra is a structural system based on the concept of adding a new and eco-friendly level to major cities, adding new public spaces to already crowded cities.

Although skyscrapers might be beautiful, complaints have come from some of them ruining the horizon, by sticking out like a sore thumb in the middle of a vast wilderness. Look around any large metropolis and you will note the same things: no room for expansion, pollution, crowded city streets, a vast array of buildings that take away sunlight from the avenues below. They cast an ominous, eerie shade on the city below, taking away the suns warmth, and replacing it with the shades chillier temperature. The need for public spaces is crucial in any busting metropolis.

Joanna Borek-Clement is a designer from San Francisco who has envisioned a new way of constructing high-rises using a new architectural design. Her design is inspired by the shape of a neuron cell, and would allow the streets below to be filled with parks, and recreational community buildings. Her idea shows buildings sprouting up from the ground, and branching out wider towards the sky, sort of like building an alternate layer far away from the ground. These interconnected towers would also be built of mass-produced materials that would allow for the conservation of critical energy and precious resources.

I like this project: it makes a lot of sense for the environment and for bettering the general life of city dwellers. I find that its practicality could lead the project to materialize into something concrete within the next several years. A new, intricate layer in the sky could better the quality of life for the ones who seek to stay below it.

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• http://joannaborek.com/index_welcome.html

Moy, the futuristic car created by Croatian designer Elvis Tomljenovic, is a concept car for a technologically-driven generation. Moy is completely customizable, made with polycarbonate layers and LED fibers. The driver is once again the commander of his vehicle, as he is able to choose any design or pattern for his car.

Henry Ford, at the time of the presentation of the Ford T in 1908, said that the cars would be available in every color as long as it was black.

The imposition to the market of a single car color coincides with the beginning of marketing interpreted as “product orientation”.

The 1900′s was the century of mass production: standardized product, thought of to please as many people as possible. The new millenium on the other hand, started a new trend: personalization. Today at the center of the production process, lie our desires, and that is what leads companies to design products which allow us to express our inner creativity.

100 year have passed since the release of the Ford T, and today we can change the color of our car anytime we want.

It is called Moy, and it was projected by the Croatian designer Elvis Tomljenovic, who won a contest for the Automotive Design Conference in Zagreb.

Moy is the concept car for the “generation that will use technology as a basis to express themselves and to communicate”. The body of Moy is composed of thin layers of polycarbonate that contain a layer of liquid crystals, also with LED’s and electro-chromed fibers. Outside of the technical specifications the principle is the same as a screensaver, all one needs is a computer. One picks an image he likes, or creates one, and then sends it via wi-fi to the car, which applies it to the car’s body. The concept surely will draw interest, even because Tomljenovic thought of equipping the car with an electric motor, to demonstrate his support for environmental sustainability, which is now in the DNA of this young designer.

The real test now is to make the Moy secure while driving in the bustling traffic of our crowded streets, and to transform it from being a brilliant idea to an actual successful product. Aesthetically pleasing, personalized, with an electric motor, respectful for the environment, safety. Will this be the car of the future?

More Info.:

• http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/08/have-a-different-car-everyday/
• http://tomljenovic.carbonmade.com/projects/2271356