How FLANEUR-SHIP can help us reclaim the city commons.wikimedia.org What do today’s Pokemon Go players have in common with the French 19th century poet Baudelaire? They both embody the notion of the Flaneur. The Flaneur, in its traditional sense, evokes…
Autor: Oona Horx-Strathern
City Happiness
How happy do our cities need to be? Urbanisation is sexy. We see cities, planners, mayors competing for prominence, for recognition and for a unique selling point for their cities. In this new era of urban optimism and architecture as…
Future Home
How is our definition of HOME evolving? The poet Robert Frost once wrote that “home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Interestingly we often ask people “where do you live?…
Elektromobile Erfahrungen
My experiences with the Mitsubishi iMiev We have been driving the zero emission Mitsubishi iMiev electric car for over a year now, and it is a great 4 seater compact town car. It looks a bit like a computer mouse,…
Future House Blog
As inhabitant of the Zukunftshaus (www.zukunftshaus.at) I am always curious as to what other future homes are offering. What are the new must have cutting edge features? Do these new gadgets make economic as well as ecological sense? Do they…