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  • Smart’s Future of the City Continues

    Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues

    Copyright by smart | Design Aram Dikiciyan
    smart urban stage is a global online project dealing with the term FUTURE OF THE CITY. We ask pioneers from metropolises around the world to question the urban status quo. the results are visions, ideas and solutions for sustainable lifestyles, modern social systems and forward-looking developments in the fields of architecture, design and technology. the worldwide event series is exhibiting ideas and solutions of forward thinking future makers. the brand behind this online project is the car manufacturer smart, which hosted special events throughout Europe during the last two years.


    Now smart initiated the online project FUTURE OF THE CITY. Within their Q&A series allrounder Marcelo Burlon asked photographer Aram Dikiciyan: How would a city look like without concrete? His answer: A city without concrete is bathed in light.
    Burlon: A few years ago I was in the north of Brazil, in a little village called Jericoacoara and then I moved to Praia de Pipa. In this time the streets were made out of sand and all the little houses were out of wood. All was full of trees and the atmosphere during the evening is something really unbelievable. I imagined a city a hundred times bigger than this little village with the same concept. Imagine how the summer will be without all that concrete. How the kids will grow up and the older people will enjoy their last years.
    Dikiciyan:Throughout the life over there he found that things are generally rather unpredictable but definitely either interesting to thrilling or surprising to wondrous thus a little predictable then again. He dealt with the inconceivable which allowed him to catch a glimpse of what he called then the futurity of his own: Fragments of what could be or how it could look like. He never knew exactly what it was but it provided an insight into what could have been. So what would he have imagined about tomorrow? Life to consist of dark days and bright nights? Or rather bright days and blinding nights? Reflective surfaces, glowing and pumping? Intermittent pulsating conducting the rhythm of time? Busy veins but orderly? Kindness? Goodness? Awkwardness? Frequent beauty?
    Aram Dikiciyan was born in 1974 in West-Berlin. He moved to Tokyo in 2004, where he has been resident ever since. Exhibitions of his work have been held in Tokyo, Berlin and Hong Kong. He has been represented by Berlin Gallery Camera Work since 2008.
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    VIA «Smart’s Future of the City Continues» by Jane Storm

  • Bachelorette Parties - Idea #12: His and Hers Bachelorette Parties at Atlantis

    Bachelorette Parties - Idea #12: His and Hers Bachelorette Parties at Atlantis
    the cove at atlantis
    Inspired by celebs including Kim Kardashian to host a his and hers bachelorette party? The folks at the Cove at Atlantis in the Bahamas make it easy. Sign up for the Jack-n-Jill getaway and you"ll get:

    • Ladies 3-night Suite accommodations for 4 people at the Cove

    • Gentlemen 3-night Suite accommodations for 4 people at the Cove

    • Roundtrip limo airport transportation for 8 people

    • Welcome cocktail reception at Seaglass at the Cove

    • Dinner for 8 at a select on-site restaurants

    • 2 Daybeds reserved at Cain Adult Pool (2 days)

    • Golf outing for 4 at One and Only Ocean Club Golf Course

    • Spa day for 4 at Mandara Spa (including 2 services each)

    • Saturday 2 VIP Tables at Aura, including 2 bottles per table

    • Professional photographer at your choice of 2 events

    • Brunch at Mosaic for 8

    • Cove Gift Bags for 8

    • Special Gift for the Bride and Groom


    suites at the cove
    The packages start at $2,395 per person. For more info, log onto Atlantis.com.

    VIA «Bachelorette Parties - Idea #12: His and Hers Bachelorette Parties at Atlantis» by Jane Storm

  • Bachelorette Parties - Idea #4: Colorado Beer Festivals

    Bachelorette Parties - Idea #4: Colorado Beer Festivals
    Telluride
    Bachelorette Parties - Idea #4: Colorado Beer Festivals
    photo by Matt Inden/Weaver Multimedia Group and Colorado Tourism Office
    If you"d rather toast with beer instead of champagne, grab your girls and head to one of these great beer festivals in Colorado. This is where to spend a bachelorette weekend: think of the scenery (that"s Telluride above), the music and entertainment, and plenty of boys! Here are a few festivals this fall:

    Telluride Blues and Brews Festival (September 15-18). This Colorado favorite combines the best brews with the finest in traditional blues music. www.TellurideBlues.com

    If you go to Telluride, stay at The Peaks Resort has a Golden Door Spa, so you can pamper yourselves too.

    Steamboat OktoberWest (September 16-18). Live music, food, Rocky Mountain brews and a mechanical bull-riding competition. www.ResortQuestSteamboat.com/steamboat-summer-events/oktoberwest.htm

    Crested Butte Oktoberfest (September 23-24). The Crested Butte Brewing Company"s 12,000-square-foot brew house, tap room and adjoining patio is hosting its second annual Oktoberfest. Activities include a barrel race, dog costume contest and the award for Best Beer Belly. www.GunnisonCrestedButte.com/event/oktoberfest

    VIA «Bachelorette Parties - Idea #4: Colorado Beer Festivals» by Jane Storm

  • Smart’s Future of the City Continues

    Smart’s Future of the City Continues
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    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues
    • Smart’s Future of the City Continues

    Copyright by smart | Design Reza Abedini
    smart urban stage is a global online project dealing with the term FUTURE OF THE CITY. We ask pioneers from metropolises around the world to question the urban status quo. the results are visions, ideas and solutions for sustainable lifestyles, modern social systems and forward-looking developments in the fields of architecture, design and technology. the worldwide event series is exhibiting ideas and solutions of forward thinking future makers. the brand behind this online project is the car manufacturer smart, which hosted special events throughout Europe during the last two years.


    Now smart initiated the online project FUTURE OF THE CITY. Within their Q&A series Dutch alternative fashion, arts and lifestyle magazine BLEND was requested to ask Iranian graphic designer Reza Abedini: In what ways does Western architecture influence Arabic buildings in the future??
    BLEND: At BLEND magazine we like to shed light on cultural topics from different point of views. the Arab world is still full of mystique and ›One Thousand and One Nights‹-stereotypes, because it’s often analyzed through a Western point of view. With our Western schemas and concepts we try to understand the East. the result? Predictable answers that fit in our own concepts. Therefore it’s far more interesting to look at the rich Arabic design and architectural-tradition from a non-based point of view. Reza Abedini knows the best of both worlds. He was born in the East and now lives in the West so we think he’s the one who can give us more insight about Arabic design.
    ABEDINI: To talk about these influences requires a lot of time and space. But it is important to note that nowadays we all live with Western concepts and systems, and this is a necessity in modern life. Today, most of the endeavors that happen in the world of art and architecture are based on Western methods and approaches, even if their forms may look non-Western. There is a very interesting example in Isfahan, Iran. the Vank Cathedral was built under the influence of the prevailing taste and atmosphere of the Islamic architecture in early 17th century Isfahan. the building is based on the functional requirements of a church, but the form and spaces are totally shaped under the influence of exciting Islamic architecture of the era.
    The issue of architecture and traditional art in non-Western cultures is very sophisticated. In these cultures, to draw a line between form and function only leads to a total misunderstanding of their view of art and architecture. Many of the attempts to bridge both cultures were not successful enough. There are a few exotic examples, but they rarely touched the core of the concept. To give you an example: building a mosque in Islamic culture is mostly related to the architect’s beliefs and his attachment to ›truth‹ or ›god‹. In other words, design is not exclusively confined to form, beauty and function, although it does include all of these elements. Therefore, I think the influence of architecture is possible in form and surface, but the concepts and functions in Western architecture are not in accordance with the concept of a mosque.
    When you study the historical movements in art and architecture, such as Orientalism, Postmodernism and the more recent Exoticism, they seem superficial. We, both Western and non-Western, need to try to dig beneath the surface, beyond form and function, to understand the foundations of each culture on an equal level. the Western subjective and objective approaches towards other cultures have veiled the true understanding of them.
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    VIA «Smart’s Future of the City Continues» by Jane Storm

  • The Future of the City

    The Future of the City
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    Copyright by smart | Design Leif Podhajsky
    smart urban stage is a global online project dealing with the term FUTURE OF THE CITY. We ask pioneers from metropolises around the world to question the urban status quo. the results are visions, ideas and solutions for sustainable lifestyles, modern social systems and forward-looking developments in the fields of architecture, design and technology. the worldwide event series is exhibiting ideas and solutions of forward thinking future makers. the brand behind this online project is the car manufacturer smart, which hosted special events throughout Europe during the last two years.


    Now smart initiated the FUTURE OF THE CITY AWARD (with a final voting in January 2012). Within the 2nd round Month Of Design Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz (Stuttgart/Germany) Gordon Wagener was requested to ask 8 designers around the world: In reference to urban mobility, how will design evolve in the upcoming two decades?
    One of the contributing designers is Leif Podhajsky – artist and creative director from Melbourne/Australia. His work explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experience. By utilizing these subjects he attempts to coerce the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings. Leif creates artwork for a number bands and record labels around the world such as Modular Records, Sony Music, Lykke Li and Tame Impala and has exhibited work in Berlin, the Netherlands, Sydney, and Melbourne.
    In the upcoming decades design will play key function in a new era of human existence. One in which humans have attained a higher state of awareness, a realization that we are all connected and a want to exist in a free, supportive and sustainable society. A society that places a high value on imagination, science, music and art as a way to move forward as a species and explore both inner and outer space, a place in which we share knowledge and embrace our differences.
    In reference to mobility and the way we engage with our environment, our cities will become a product of a world where the monetary system has failed, as this seems to be the only way forward from a flawed ideology that gives nothing of value back to our society. We are witnessing a taste of this failure in our present day and things will only get worse.

    We will need design, technology and ideas to break the syntax of this current model to create cities and environments in which humans well-being and not corporations are placed at the top of the chain. We need to see a rise in renewable energies with mass transit networks built to reflect this, the advent use of bikes and bike lanes, more green areas, communal gardens and parks, more ways to diminish waste and recycle, free widespread access to unregulated internet and localized production are just a few things that hopefully will start to change how we interact and live out our lives in the cities of the future. Leif Podhajsky


    All other contestants and their artistic work can be seen here. Now it is your turn to show them which one has done best. Vote for your favourite design work by clicking on the vote button. Voting ends November 28th (6pm CET) ! the two artists with the most votes will take part in the Final Future of the City Award voting in January 2012.

    VIA «The Future of the City» by Jane Storm

  • Fashion"s Night Out

    Fashion"s Night Out
    Fashion
    Fashion"s Night Out
    The sun is finally shining in New York, which can only mean one thing: It"s time to shop! The city (and others around the world) is gearing up for Fashion"s Night Out tonight. Still not sure where to go? New York Magazine has a handy guide divided by what your main objective is tonight. It helps you find the celebs (Justin Beiber at Dolce and Gabbanna!), free food (Mr. Softee at Vera Wang) or beauty must haves (Essie Manis at the Teen Vogue Bleecker Street block party).

    As for us? We"ll be hanging at the chicest vintage store we know A Little Wicked, where the Moreno sisters are the only draw we need!

    Not in New York, check out the other Fashion"s Night Out events around the country or buy the T-shirt to support the New York City AIDS Fund in the New York Community Trust.

    VIA «Fashion's Night Out» by Jane Storm

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