Archive for the ‘visionaire’ Category

Unmissable: 1.618 Sustainable Luxury Fair

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, May 2O1O

Both a trade show and an art exhibition, 1.618 Paris is the first annual rendez-vous of Sustainable Luxury, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and the WWF. / S E E +

Marco Bevolo and the next luxuries

Netherlands / Italy

Image Copyright: Keiko Goto, The Netherlands

Design researcher and corporate maverick Marco Bevolo states in his book Premium by Design: How to Develop and Market High End Products, that in times of economic downturn luxury will become, more than ever, synonymous with focus on people and the experience of essentials / S E E +

Understanding Nature’s intelligence

London. England

From an unorthodox perspective, between science and religion, the documentary Metanoia shows that Nature is better understood as a self-organizing system, and human evolution depends on our ‘making sense’ within the larger context of the Biosphere / S E E +

Avigdor, seeking identity in nature

Entre Ríos. Argentina

Ranch Avigdor leads a re-discovery of the roots of Jewish and Argentinean identity, in commitment to Nature through life in the fertile Pampas / S E E +

Spirulina for rural schools

Corrientes, Argentina

Spirulina is a micro-seaweed with unique properties both to environment and human nutrition. This project explores the possibilities of this product to help meet the needs of primary school kids in misexploited rural areas / S E E +