Do physical places, either those that we create or those that are naturally occurring, have the power to fire the imagination? Do certain places inspire you more than others? What about a certain environment can have this effect on an individual, or a community? Is it possible for somewhere to spark imagination in one person,…
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It’s easy to get carried away with architecture and design; sacrificing usability or making it secondary to innovation. However, Space10, a Danish research and design lab is dedicated to projects that will actually work for the people that use them. Here, Design Week catches up with the team to talk about the importance of connecting…
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It seems obvious that our surroundings affect our emotions, but that connection has not always been taken into account. As this article from BBC Future explores, cities are becoming home to the majority of the population, and their architecture is making its mark on us. We’ve questioned cities’ suitability for the future before, and it…
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Dubai’s Museum of the Future is as much about the innovation of the building process as is it about the initiatives it’s going to promote. In fact, the two feed into each other. We love the idea of constantly learning and developing even in the building process, so that we have the tools and skills…
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Imagination is about questioning, celebrating and engaging what we can see by using what we can’t. A great way to do this is through making the familiar unfamiliar. It allows us to make that connection to what might be. That’s why we love Manifold Garden as a game. It puts that essential twist on the…
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Architecture is everything about the spaces around us. We understand it; it’s visual and familiar. Digital spaces are anything but. As this article from Fast Company says, the digital is often binary in its decisions, which we as humans can’t compute. We love the interdisciplinary nature of this exhibition and lab at the Tate. By…
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Much of our focus on designing our spaces goes on optimising home life or fostering better learning practices. And rightly so. However, forgetting and dismissing our cities’ infrastructure as a necessarily complex evil is having devastating effects. This article from Curbed explores how one firm is trying to humanise our approach to transportation design through…
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This project is really exciting as it combines two of our favourite themes: creative ways to learn and spaces to imagine. It’s not about maximising or constantly learning, it’s about context and environment. By taking the conversations outside the classroom to daily places like bus stops, it makes these topics accessible and relevant. It’s interesting…
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It seems that we’ve been searching for places to imagine for centuries, as Dan Schindel of Hyperallergic is finding out. Researcher and author Paul Dobraszczyk’s book is an inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the breadth and depth of our collective aspirations. Last year, we explored your visions of the architecture of an urban future with…
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Helen Marriage‘s mission is to create real experiences; moments that are actually memorable. Through her company, Artichoke, her public art projects use imagination to access spaces and forever change how we feel about them. In this TED talk, she shares her ideas on convincing people to value shared artistic experiences. Transform the physical world using…
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Making places that inspire isn’t just about beauty and the thrill of the new. It’s also about finding creative ways to increase engagement. Looking at this exploration of a colourful kindergarten in Chongqing, we love the impulse to build “a place that begs to be explored”. It’s full of clever and, crucially, practical solutions all…
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