Archive for the ‘visionaire’ Category

1.618 Sustainable Luxury Fair edition 2012

What is for you you the future of Luxury?

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Dead Forest by Charly Nijensohn: the work in progress

Balbina Dam. Amazonas. Brazil

Dead Forest sets off to capture a series of images in a tragic landscape.
One of the most distorted landscapes by human action, the Balbina Dam is a political and metaphysical statement by itself: a manifesto about our own failures / 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 +

Cabinet de lecture

Paris. France

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Understanding Nature

London. England

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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 +

The chances of the world changing

New York. USA 

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After an epiphany at a New York restaurant, writer Richard Ogust began dedicating his time and resources to rescuing endangered turtles. When the filmmakers catch up with the 50-year-old writer, he is sharing his Manhattan loft with 1,200 turtles, including five species extinct in the wild. / 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 +

Satori Lab

Buenos Aires. Argentina

A design lab working with recycled materials, and a challenge to think collectively and through our hands / S E E +

Avar Saracho

Belén. Catamarca. Argentina

On the path of pre-columbian traditions, the Avar Saracho family work through the whole cycle of sheep and llama handcrafted knitting. / S E E +

Tramando

Buenos Aires. Argentina

Steering clear from vain mass-market clichés, Tramando creates with an artistic flair, focusing on the social realm and local identity / S E E +