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The 'final' destination of our trip; Baikonour /…

After arriving in Almaty we knew there was only limited time to get to the station in order to jump on our 33 hour trainride to the Aral sea... due to some flight delay we missed this connection. Hoping to catch the train at the next station we…

Before heading to the airport we had some time left in Kiev (preparing for European Footbal championship 2012) which we used for…

Sorry guys, it's been a while. There seems not to be a huge market for bringing WiFi to the Kazache desert. So I owe you an update on the Unknown Fields mission. After some inspiring presentations from Nelly Ben Hayoun and Regina Peldszus Clive presented a few Probes…

Here is an additional link to a blog that is being updated by Chris from…

During our last two days in the exclusion zone we visited Pripyat, the atomic city of tomorrow. The city was build in 1970 by Moscow architects led by Nicolay Ostozhenko in order to house workers of the Chernobyl…

Today we arrived at Kiev, which is an amazing city with some bizarre (post)communist architecture. While on a short bus drive from the airport to the hotel, I got a glimpse of Corbusier like urban planning... Ukranian style. In the hotel we joined with Jack and Clive and got a…

Today the Cernobyl-Baikonour mission kicked off with an extensive symposium, with a nice line-up of speakers:…

Monday 11-07 will be the start of a new 'Unknown Fields' mission. Unknown Fields is a nomadic studio that will set off on an annual expedition to the ends of the earth exploring forgotten landscapes, alien terrains and obsolete ecologies. Philips…

Jeremy Rifkin shows his vision on our future and does this in an admirable realistic clearity. He makes some…

The Dutch foundation Oxfam Novib, started a new international campaign called 'Grow' which focusses on our current foodsystem and aims for a sustainable future with a fair and solid foodsystem for everybody. Some key elements…

The Swedish artist Erik Sjödin has been experimenting with cultivating Azolla, a moss-like water-floating fern, for food puposes. He started in late…

In addition to the Livable Cities workshop and especially in addition to the story of Eleanor Saitta, this new documentary by Adam Curtis is a must see. It is a series about how computers have not liberated us but distorted and simplified our view of the world around us. It…

That's right, the first day of the Livable Cities workshop triggered a lot of thoughts and inspiration. The speakers of day 1 were; Rob Hopkins,…

On April 27 and 28, the Livable Cities workshop of the Philips Design Probes will take place. Interesting speakers have been confirmed and will definitely spark some progressive thinking around the subject of '…

Here is link for new cool design element that can be used for growing food also: http://www.cityfarmer.info/?s=zengrow

We recently demonstrated some new prototypes from our multi-sensorial gastronomy collaboration with Arzak at Madrid Fusion 2011. Last year we…