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    Life

    Coronavirus-killing UV lights

    What if we could use light to kill the coronavirus and get back to life as we once knew it? Huge UV spotlights could be a promising way to ensure virus-free outdoor city life.

    0The Tea Team

    Your friend the robot

    These five social robots could improve your daily life. They can watch your kids or mix you up a special cocktail behind the bar, with a little extra lemon, just how you like it.

    0N. Berghausen

    Candlelight vigils are not enough

    The artists’ group “Center for Political Beauty” weaponizes art for radical change. Sometimes, the collective ends up exposing even more problems than they expected.

    0R. Meissner

    “They killed the journalist. Not the message”

    Journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia and Miroslava Breach were killed to prevent their controversial investigations from seeing the light of day. Now, the "Forbidden Stories" project is continuing their research and publishing their stories.

    0Y. Martín Fradejas

    Fear my rubber duck!

    How humorous protests are successfully backfooting the authorities and leading to actual change.

    0S. McClennen, S. Popovic

    The success of the Ice Bucket Challenge

    For all those who doubted that pouring a bucket of ice water over your head could make the world a better place, doubt no longer. Six years after the hype, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has financed the development of a drug for the deadly disease it targeted.

    0R. Meissner

    Investing in change

    Shareholder activism forces companies to listen to criticism of their social and environmental policies and sometimes even to change their course.

    0The Tea Team

    Right against the right

    How German neo-Nazis involuntarily took part in a walkathon to support an anti-racism initiative.

    0The Tea Team

    In your face: hacking facial recognition systems

    So big brother is watching, so what? This picture editing program that is fooling facial recognition software.

    0The Tea Team

    If you can’t take it to the streets, take it to the supermarket

    Moroccans have proven that big business is not untouchable: Three companies in the Arabic country experienced just how closely their fate really depends on the goodwill of their consumers.

    0R. El Afia

    Home office with a view… and what a view!

    Since you’re not allowed to commute to the office anyway, why not work at the pool, or even better, from a Ferris wheel cabin? Japan’s Yomiuriland has been offering infection-proof office booths for remote workers in the amusement park – portable WIFI and charging ports included.

    0The Tea Team

    Turning shipping containers into COVID-19 hospital wards

    An international team of designers, engineers and medical professionals has invented mobile intensive care units for COVID-19 patients built inside shipping containers. Easy and fast to deploy, they offer a safe alternative to hospital tents.

    0The Tea Team

    Favela communities’ corona dashboards

    While the Brazilian government continues to downplay the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, Rio de Janeiro’s favela inhabitants are taking action. They have created a number of local data dashboards to share information on infection rates and death tolls, and one even provides medical advice.

    0R. Brabbins

    Homegrown PPE

    Yes, you read right: You can grow your own effective, particle-filtering mask at home in future. All you need is water, sugar, tea – and a certain bacteria.

    0The Tea Team

    Design meets pandemic

    Coronavirus masks are an integral part of our lives these days whether we like it or not. The designer world has responded quickly, turning a necessity into a fashionable accessory – hip, elegant and stylish.

    0The Tea Team

    Ink Made of Smog

    Tailpipe soot could be seen as just another resource – all you need is a good way to use it. In ink, for example, the pollutant is suddenly quite useful.

    0The Tea Team

    Computers against Covid

    A bunch of dedicated geeks gave thousands of Singapore school kids access to home-based learning during the Covid pandemic.

    0The Tea Team/ Saad Chinoy

    Stay the fuck home bar

    St Petersburg firm creates online bar for self-isolating extroverts.

    0M. Edwards

    The fabrics dreams are made of

    These new textiles are revolutionizing the fashion industry: waste-based, compostable, and some actually breathe.

    0R. Adam

    Edible, compostable, ecological: Natural packaging alternatives for your drink to go

    Plastic cups and PET bottles will soon be things of the past, as biodegradable and plastic-free packaging is being developed for beverages as well. We introduce some companies that package milk in a sugar crust, coffee in coffee-bean husks, water in sea algae and beer in cardboard.

    0N. Berghausen

    AWA Bike: Kickstarting Nigeria’s cycling revolution

    In traffic-ridden Nigeria, people are still reluctant to use bicycles, due to the lack of infrastructure and the shame of using a poor man’s mode of transport. AWA Bikes is planning to change these attitudes – and start a cycling revolution.

    0L. Unah

    Good Hairday Pasta

    Are haircare products now being misshelved with the noodles? While they may look like they belong in a high-class salon, Moscow designer Nikita Konkin’s elegant packaging displays pasta.

    0N. Berghausen

    Re-cycling polluted air

    Cycling prevents enormous amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, as bicycles generate about 10 times fewer greenhouse gases than individual motorized transport. But what if we could do even better, and ride smog-cleaning bicycles that sucks up polluted air?

    0R. Adam

    Resurrecting Salvador Dali

    Exceptional artist and eccentric Salvador Dali would have been 115 years old this year. In the virtual world at least, he can now blow out the candles on his birthday cake: The Dali Museum has brought him back to life with Deepfake in the Dali Lives experience.

    0The Tea Team

    Apple leather handbags

    It looks like leather, and feels like leather - but it's actually made out of apples! A Swiss company is breaking new ground in the fashion industry with a unique, vegan handbag collection. Made of fruit waste.

    0N. Berghausen

    Joana Varon

    United women in a man’s world: Joana’s indignation about gender imbalances in technology inspired her to found Coding Rights, an international woman-led network for human rights in the digital sphere. She believes technology development has to be feminist, non-discriminatory, and globally fair.

    0Laura Vidal

    Regina Mbodj Brown

    Regina has high hopes of tech start-ups and their ability to drive the economy, improve health care, and combat poverty. For years she worked as a programmer all over Africa, and today heads the CTIC IT incubator and accelerator in Senegal.

    0The Tea Team

    Shinta Witoyo Dhanuwardoyo

    Shinta Witoyo Dhanuwardoyo is a compulsive serial entrepreneur. Bubbling with new ideas and the enthusiasm to match, she has created at least ten tech companies – including one of Indonesia’s first, Bubu.com – and mentored several others over the span of 20 years.

    0Anuradha Sharma

    Japleen Pasricha

    In a country where rape and discrimination against women are daily evils, activist Japleen Pasricha has made it her mission to ensure women’s voices are heard. She employs digital tools like her Feminism in India online magazine and online campaigns, and raises awareness of cyber harassment.

    0Anuradha Sharma

    Amel Saidane

    One of engineer Amel Saidane’s first clients once asked her, “Why do you bother to sell CRM licenses; why don’t you just sell makeup?” The tech entrepreneur and co-founder of TunisiaStartups knows the challenges women face in the start-up world – and is advocating for change.

    0Thalia Rahme

    Regina Honu

    Regina Honu is determined that women and girls will not be left behind by the digital revolution. The software developer and social entrepreneur founded the Soronko Academy, one of the first coding schools for children and young adults in West Africa. To date, her Tech Needs Girls mentorship programme has trained over 4,500 girls to code.

    0Larisa Akrofie

    Grazia Vittadini

    When you work in aeronautics, the sky is not the limit. As a young girl kicking footballs and skidding across muddy fields with her friends, Grazia Vittadini had no idea she would one day be a leading figure at a company that grosses 67 billion euros annually and dominates the aerospace industry.

    0Sarah Berning

    Sexual violence stinks

    A bracelet that emits a repellent smell in an emergency, protecting the wearer from attack.

    0Empowering people.Network

    Coffee to go with a green conscience

    Freiburg is the first German city to introduce a deposit on reusable coffee cups. The Freiburg Cup not only reduces waste; it also saves coffee lovers the trouble of rinsing out returnable cups.

    0Tea Team

    Bookseller for a while:
    “A pleasantly boring holiday”

    The Open Book project offers holidaymakers a very special experience: In the Scottish village of Wigtown, visitors can run an independent book shop for up to six weeks. What may sound like a pretty unspectacular holiday adventure is actually fully booked on Airbnb for years to come.

    0Tea Team

    Bringing van Gogh back to life with the world’s first fully painted feature film

    Dozens of films have explored the life of Vincent van Gogh. Now, for the first time, his story is being told entirely through van-Gogh-style oil paintings and the painter’s death is recounted as a thriller: was it suicide or something more sinister?

    1Tea Team

    The Garden of Four Seasons

    Wouldn’t it be nice to have a weather guarantee sometimes? In Milan’s Garden of Four Seasons, you will soon be able to choose summer, autumn, winter or spring at any time of year.

    0Tea Team

    Time to celebrate!

    Tea after Twelve turns three! Time to recap: What Tea after Twelve has to do with Trump, why journalism can change the world and how you are doing your part.

    0Tea Team

    My Wonderland

    We've asked our authors about their personal wonderland: Here's what they told us.

    0Tea Team

    Paint by Drone

    Anybody can become a graffiti artist with this set of painting drones.

    0Tea Team

    Once Upon a Time

    Two beautifully designed books portray the lives of women throughout history.

    0Tea Team

    Hacking Lego – Toys for the Maker Generation

    Children and adults all over the world love creative toys like LEGO® bricks, but bricks from different brands usually don’t fit together. MakerBrane modules offer the solution: they allow you to link up anything and everything and build whatever you like.

    1A.Arida/S.de Maussion

    How Moroccans made their dream city come true

    How Moroccans made their dream city come true

    1Rabab El Afia

    Risking one’s life for a laugh

    Can you joke about ISIS? An Iraqi news satire show, the Albasheer Show, is doing just that. And it is winning over viewers, even in ISIS occupied areas where the show has been banned.

    0Tea Team

    6,900 letters in support of reconciliation, including one from Uruguay’s former president José Mujica

    After more than half a century of civil war, Colombia’s young people are sending letters of hope to guerrilla fighters to help them re-integrate into society.

    0L. Párrage/Tea Team

    Augmenting the reality of our food

    While many of us wrestle with the crucial question, “to eat or not to eat”, a lot of labs and companies are experimenting with virtual reality food. But what on earth is it? And does it involve real eating at all?

    0C. Mogk

    Piggy goes artistic

    0Tea Team

    Young ideas saving the world's oldest street

    In Alexandria, students are designing solutions to save architectural heritage. Their university professors have brought young minds and sponsoring companies together in a competition to bring forth the best ideas.

    0Goethe-Institut

    Memory in Cardboard

    In Bogotá, a group of people displaced by violence describe their experiences through drawings and prints. In this way, they attempt to heal their wounds and prevent the past from repeating itself.

    0Goethe-Institut

    Where the rich pay for the poor

    Rarely has the Robin Hood principle been so charmingly enacted as in a restaurant of the same name in Spain. The wealthy dine here during the day, and pay for a free, warm, meal for the needy at night.

    0enorm

    We Don’t Want your Dirty Money

    Five Swiss villages rejected a tax windfall from a commodities corporation and donated it to the countries harmed by the corporation’s ruthless production methods.

    0Tea Team

    The Path to Happiness, a Journey to the Self

    “Become the person you are” – the secret to happiness we all carry inside. Knowing yourself better gives you more freedom to make choices and make your life so much happier. Philosophical self-reflection can help you get there.

    0R. Rohland

    No, chess won’t help you pick up girls

    It's not easy being an passionated chess player while having small talk with non players. Stand-up comedian Pavel Tomes decided to conduct a self-interview to answer all dumb questions once and for all.

    0P. Tomes

    Protecting LGBTI refugees from homophobic attacks in Europe

    Europe is supposed to be one of the safest places for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersexed (LGBTI) people to live. Nevertheless, LGBTI refugees still often suffer abuse. Could different housing options change their fates?

    0S.Jaekel / S.Rocca

    The Kiezkaufhaus –
    the local shopping express

    Online shopping with a twist: The Kiezkaufhaus project exclusively offers products from local retailers and delivers faster than Amazon.

    0N. Beyer/Tea Team

    Ho-ho-ho! Biscuits even Santa would fall for

    While Santa and Rudolph are probably already on their way, we have a last-minute inspiration for you how to brighten up your Christmas feast even more.

    0Tea Team

    Haize: The smart compass for your bike

    Cruising the city by bike can spark an amazing feeling of freedom - as long as you don't have to hop on and off your bike to look up directions. But now there’s Haize, a new navigation system that keeps you cycling without limitations.

    1Tea Team

    Our favourite Christmas gift ideas for 2017

    Our favourite Christmas gift ideas

    0Tea Team

    The photo that turned a Pakistani tea seller a star

    Sometimes, one moment could change everything. This the story about how the hype around one Pakistani tea seller continues to grow - just because a picture of him went viral.

    0Tea Team

    The Alcoholic in the Beer and Now

    Where the beer salutation replaces the sun salutation: Jhula offers beer yoga in Berlin, as incredible as that may sound. A true challenge for a recovering alcoholic – in every sense.

    0F. Hennig

    A summer in Rio de Janeiro

    The Olympics are over, but summer in Rio is not: Enjoy these magical pictures of life in the Brazilian metropolis.

    0K.Fochtmann

    The mixtape is dead; long live the mixtape

    So you think the mixtape is dead, killed by the Internet with its music on demand? You couldn't be more wrong. The Suan startup is taking the mixtape into the 21st century.

    0E.Datz

    Magic Screen: For the best Olympic & European Championship experience

    This mobile projection screen let you enjoy the games in Paris & Rio everywhere.

    0Tea Team

    China’s first sustainable golf resorts

    That maintaining golf courses causes harm to ecosystems the world over is nothing new. What is new to the sport is a sustainable golf resort company in China which is pioneering sustainable tourism in the country.

    0J.Dodgshun

    Design in Space

    Interview with the first space architect, Galina Balaschova, who designed the interiors of the famous Mir & Sojus space stations.

    0G.Balaschova

    BlindShell: A smartphone app for the visually impaired

    How does vision loss – partial or complete – affect a person's ability to communicate using a mobile device? The Blindshell app offers a range of options designed to simplify smartphone use for the visually impaired.

    0Tea Team

    The splendour of the Moscow Metro

    The Moscow Metro has turned its underground hubs into full-scale palaces and temples of transport resembling a gigantic art museum.

    0Tea Team

    Hosting refugees at home

    A Dutch volunteer organisation is placing refugees in private homes where they enjoy the warmth of family life instead of the impersonal anonymity of life in a huge centre.

    1M.Grcic

    UPLUX: “IKEA is not the only style that can have wide appeal”

    Saving energy through upcycling: Producing these Bauhaus inspired industrial desk lamps saves millions of joules of energy.

    0T.Gungl

    Rio de Janeiro: The first people-powered football pitch

    A small favela in Rio is demonstrating how easy it is to generate energy – just run.

    0Tea Team

    Playing in a winter wonderland

    These beautiful pictures of playing squirrels show how similar squirrels can be to human beings.

    0V.Trunow

    A taller, greener future

    An abandoned brewery site near the very heart of Australia’s largest city has been reborn, and it’s becoming the toast of the town.

    0L. McMillan

    Vegan boxing equipment: Destroy your enemy – not the planet

    Vehement, a Berlin start-up, makes vegan, fair-trade boxing equipment – and is fighting its corner quite successfully in both Europe and the USA.

    1J.Lenarz

    Building bridges between the elderly and young people in Tunisia

    A young Tunisian woman, Abir Rouis, wants to revive the hopes of elderly abandoned people by building bridges between the generations in one of the most disadvantaged regions of Tunisia.

    0O.Chine

    Fake weddings set the trend in Argentina

    Today, many couples decide to live together without getting married. But that also means that people get less party invitations. So why not go to a fake wedding party?

    0G.García Calderón

    Turn back the clock for something fashion forward

    They are young, elegant, and extremely well-dressed: the new dandies of Johannesburg. Retro is trending in many African countries, and so is the vintage fashion collective Khumbula.

    1Khumbula

    Handmade, recycled & funky sneakers made of tires

    The Ghanaian start-up Gutta Soles designs the funkiest sneakers you’ve ever seen – made of old car tires and perfect for everyday.

    1L. Bentil / Tea Team

    The story of Peru’s first transgender politician

    One of the first transgender politicians in Latin America is currently city councilor for a community in northern Peru. We present Luisa Revilla – an impressive woman whose commitment to her constituents could serve as inspiration for many politicians.

    0H.Lozano González

    Green architecture: Living in treescrapers

    The trend is moving towards green urban planning. What happens though when architecture not only employs eco-friendly, renewable materials, but also takes the word “green” quite literally and tries to integrate houses into the natural environment?

    0R. de Hullu

    A tiny Brooklyn apartment turned into a Skateboard museum

    Eric Pinto totally falls in love with Skateboards - and turned his tiny apartment into a Skateboard museum. Nearly every inch of the flat is covered with boards and skate artifacts.

    0Tea Team

    How citizens revived an abandoned square

    Active citizens in West São Paulo have revitalized a square to create a small oasis in the middle of the city.

    0C. Ramos

    The Anarchists' Bread

    The bakers of La conquête du pain keep their quarter in Montreuil happy with delicious baguettes - while practicing anarchism.

    0H.Kempf

    The Hobbit House

    Are you good with your hands? Then grab your hammer, chisel and saw and build your fairy tale home for less than 4,000 euros.

    0Tea Team

    Iran: A different view

    Iran: A different view

    0Tea Team

    Gaza's Rooftop Paradise

    The demographic crisis is turning Gaza into a concrete jungle, green space is lacking. Rooftop agriculture is a small solution for a big problem.

    0S.AlSharif

    Dreams rewired -
    Every age thinks it’s the modern age

    The outstanding film “Dreams Rewired” takes viewers on a journey way back in time to the electric media boom of the late 19th century. At the same time, the directors provide a foretaste of technological development and the need for each of us to act in order to secure an open future.

    0div.

    Stackable & Snackable Lego Candy

    Don't know what to do at the weekend? Here's a funny way to make yourself and probably all of your loved ones very happy: Make edible and stackable lego jellies!

    0Tea Team

    The Slum Challenge –
    More Than Just a Game

    In the computer game Slum Challenge, Europeans can immerse themselves in life in a Philippine slum from a first-person shooter and wander through real film sequences.

    0M. Cantzler Christensen

    When hospitalised children become superheroes

    What if a child’s hospital stay could be turned into one long superhero adventure? If not only the illness, but also the powers of evil could be vanquished in the end? A new tablet game for young patients will soon make this possible.

    0C.Chenebault

    Brave new tech world:
    To live is to be photographed – life in a smart world

    How smart will the smart home of the future be? Will the walls of our houses soon be screens? And what is the personal price we will pay when this turns us into transparent citizens?

    0S. Kember

    The African Superheroes

    African legends come alive in award-winning mobile games and comics.

    1E.Tawia

    Learning how to code: 9 tools you can start using right away

    Not knowing how to code may be the illiteracy of the future. Yet learning to program is so easy today. Here are nine tips on how to teach yourself the basics quickly and easily.

    0D.Zimmermann

    The Maya runners:
    Video games from Guatemala

    A heroic Mayan runner and a Quetzal bird that flies between pyramids: Experience Guatemala’s Mayan culture through entertaining videogames.

    0E.Cabria

    Philippines:
    Welcome to the Selfie Capital!

    The mobile-addicted Philippiness become one of the most attractive markets for investors in the internet branch: people are glued to their mobile phones, sending text messages to friends, loved ones or officemates, or simply scrolling down their Instagram or Facebook feeds.

    0I. Gonzales

    Geeks for the Cartels

    Encrypted communications, drug deals on the web, propaganda per Facebook: The younger generation is driving the digitalisation of the Mexican drug cartels.

    0S. Perteranderl

    Isla Holbox: the Graffiti Island

    Isla Holbox: the Graffiti Island

    0Tea Team

    Sockzi:
    Add Colour to your Business Day

    More colour for men’s calves! A Canadian start-up wants to bring a splash of colour to liven up the boring business uniform.

    0L.Ng

    soulbottles: Forget Plastic!

    Did you know that your plastic bottles for your drink to go are not only damaging the environment but also your health? Two guys from Berlin developed a complete toxin-free and very stylish solution to solve this problem.

    0P.Kupfer

    Turkey's "Standing Man"

    Sometimes it’s better to do nothing: How Erdem Gündüz kindled a protest movement with his hands in his pockets.

    0E.Gündüz

    Egypt: Walls of Freedom

    During the Egyptian revolution, Cairo’s walls became newspapers of resistance. Mural artist Ammar Abo Bakr tells their story - a story of power, politics and revolutionary fight.

    3A. Abo Bakr

    Mapping harassment in Egypt

    Can social media keep women from being harassed? This was the aim of the Egyptian start-up HarassMap when founded 4 years ago. We talked to women in Egypt: Did it actually help them?

    0M.Selim

    Art Gallery 3.0 – the Digital Future of Art

    A unique project at the interface of art, lifestyle and technology shows for 4 weeks, 5 exhibitions from 14 artists and combines it with Apple's ibeacon app. A technology first you shouldn't miss!

    0Tea Team

    A short trip to Istanbul

    0K.Fochtmann

    Fashion Week Pakistan - Showing Pakistan's progressive side

    The fashion industry in Pakistan is still in a fledgling phase in comparison to India. But events like the Fashion Pakistan Week show: Pakistan is a country with a lot of fashion and rich in craft.

    0S.Shams
    Shoaib Ali Zahid

    Reviving Pakistani cinema

    If you trust the international media, Pakistan is all about religious fanaticism, terrorism and the Taliban. But of course it is not! Get inspired by young Pakistani filmmakers.

    0S.Shams

    From Favela to Fame

    How did a song from the favelas make it into the advertising spot for the new Mercedes Benz luxury car? A surprising story from Rio's suburbs on how the Internet has made favela culture mainstream.

    0T.Pecsén

    Protest Graffiti Art in Athens

    Do you think that a crisis can make people more creative? It does! Here's the proof: the mood in Athens, Greece might be bad but the creativity in street art explodes.

    1J.Tulke

    From New York to Hong Kong

    0N.Zaboura

    Tempelhof: An urban oasis in a historical place

    0A.Prost

    Hacking Paris street signs

    In Paris parks, visitors are explicitly instructed to pick up the poop when they walk their … wait a minute, their elephant? French artists have been hacking street signs in Paris - and we've taken pictures of them.

    0Tea Team

    Hövding: The airbag helmet with style

    Bicycle helmets are a pure aesthetic disaster and the death knell to any hairstyle. Two young designers from Sweden have now demonstrated that bicycle helmets needn’t be ugly at all.

    0Tea Team
    (c) WeSell socks

    Funky Socks delivered monthly right to your door

    Funky Socks delivered monthly right to your door- that's what WeSell Socks is all about. And these socks have a social mission, too!

    2Tea Team

    Try Sleio, a search engine for the greater good

    Sleio is a search engine that donates 100% of its profits to causes you love. In other words, the money for every search you make, every link you click and/or product you buy through Sleio helps change the world.

    0Tea Team

    Colombia: When refugees build their own cities

    A photo story on the invisible heroes of the “Comuna 8” district in Medellín.

    0L. Jiménez García

    Marrakech:
    The Magic of 1001 Nights

    Anyone who does not believe time travel is possible simply has to visit Marrakesh, the “Pearl of the South”.

    0A.Kolb

    Cuba's urban farming revolution

    Havanas’s unique agricultural infrastructure today provides an exemplary precedent that could be applied worldwide.

    0C.Clouse

    Visualizing Palestine: Putting daily life in the picture

    The reality of daily life for Palestinians is complex. But the initiative Visualizing Palestine took on the challenge of spreading the word, making “creative visuals to describe a factual rights-based narrative of Palestine/Israel”.

    0T. Rahme

    Favela tourism is booming in Brazil

    These days tourists want to see the other side of Rio: the poverty in the favelas.

    1div.

    Welcome to Lagos - one of the greatest cities on earth

    It has often been said that if you can make it in Lagos, you can survive anywhere. Explore Nigeria's buzzing capital and find out: would you make it in Lagos?

    0C.Agwuegbo

    Colombia: When gang members turn to art

    Violent youth gangs are spreading fast in Colombian cities' poor neighborhoods. But thanks to a young initiative from Bogotá, fighters can now gain fame as artists.

    0L. Párraga

    Ukraine: How everyone can make a change

    You think you can’t change the world all by yourself? Then the “Wonderful” initiative in Ukraine is proving you wrong! The actions taken by these young people are changing the urban landscape of Kiev.

    0M.Nasiedkina

    Pallet skating along the tram tracks

    Czech designer Tomáš Moravec has made use of a unique quality of the Bratislava tramlines: He surfs them with a euro pallet.

    0Tea Team

    Urban explorations in Latvia

    Photographer Aleksey from Riga climbs into abandoned ruins or up on tower cranes, and he experiences the threats of the cold war when penetrating former bunkers or military training grounds.

    0A.Stemmer

    Cycling Highways - London's transport utopia

    A new approach to transform traffic in big cities: the SkyCycle, a bike highway above the city.

    0Tea Team

    Eco-Fashion: Is green really the new black?

    Sustainability has become a megatrend in fashion in recent years. But environmentally sustainable isn’t enough – social responsibility is also important. So what can we do?

    2C. Doshi

    Lima, the horrible

    "Lima is horrible", Peruvians say. The city is chaotic and full of ugly architecture and informal housing. But some young architects already have new plans up their sleeves…

    1H. Lonzano Gonzáles

    Pilot Projects: Six creative design ideas for NYC

    A playground producing renewable energy, and a rescue initiative for broken bicycles: Take inspiration from these intriguing ideas!

    0S.Francisco

    How a car park turns into a place to be

    Take one sandy car park, two friends and an idea: The result is La Carpa, a creative place where artists, musicians and the people of Seville meet to exchange ideas.

    0A.Kohn

    The reality of 1984 is now:
    Are we all terrorists?

    Orwell’s 1984 has become reality today. But why?

    0C. Schetter

    Colouring Afghanistan

    Would you expect that Afghanistan's first graffiti artist is female? We talked to Shamsia Hassani about graffiti and her home country in Afghanistan.

    0S.Hassani

    The Boxer: the true story of a holocaust survivor as a graphic novel

    An inspiring graphic novel about the life of Jewish boxer Hertzko Haft who survived the WWII death camp because he won the boxing fights organized by the SS.

    0V. Chacón

    Mars da Favela: Crystals not Pistols

    Australian rapper Mars Castro turns bullet casings from Brazil's favelas into jewellery. Bling instead of bang, Mars da Favela instead of Mc Marsepan.

    0div.

    Philippines: Why rapid change in a city can be a nightmare

    Metro Manila, the metropolitan region around the Philippine’s capital, is in a constant state of change. Traffic is a particular problem for Manila’s over 11 million inhabitants.

    0I. Gonzales

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