Palais de Tokyo, Paris, May 2O1O
Communicating awareness 2.0
Buenos Aires. Argentina
“i don’t use plastic bags –thanks”
Andresa Guareschi represents a new generation of communicators, who commit their knowledge of new media for spreading a new, evolving, global awareness on social and environmental matters. / S E E +
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 +
Growing hope in the Arava Desert
Ketura Valley and Kibbutz Lotan. Israel
For the Ketura Wetlands Project, very young Israelis and Palestinians worked together to transform an arid valley into fertile land. The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is a fine example of the Green Kibbutz Movement, and the wider Sustainable Management Agriculture philosophy / S E E +
Gota Mineral Water
Entre Ríos. Mesopotamia. Argentina
The luxury of the most basic elements: Mineral water from the massive South American Guarani Aquifer is bottled as a premium brand / 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 +
The chances of the world changing
New York. USA
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 +