Here we go round the Mulberry Bush

Entitled 'A Fantasy Showcase', the SS08 and AW08 collections were placed in cages and swings. Whimsically set amidst garden vines and statues, it makes one wonder if the restrains on the bags were meant for the objects or the eyes of the bystanders.

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THE GO BY BIKE CHALLENGE

This is architecture

What is architecture? 

Is this architecture?

While we ponder over this troubling issue, some seek the ultimate in the products of post capitalist society, found in this highly intriguing competition that challenges and probes into this very question that shapes our  world today. "Jelly Competition" is part of a series of events across the London Festival of Architecture that explore the relationship between food and architecture. 

Organised by Wow! Bompas & Parr and Article 25, the many entries received are judged on innovation, aesthetics and “wobble factor”.  The competition is now closed but we are able to view the results that will be on display to the public during the Architectural Jelly Banquet being held in UCL’s Quad on the 4th July in London. Tickets are available, from the 5th May, from www.lfa2008.org.

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City of Happiness

Felicity (n):

happiness: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

“What if a city is built on a foundation of happiness?” This was the question that drove the FeliCity workshop project, which was conducted at the University of Edinburgh, by Paskal A., David Lee and Adib Jalal.

Instead of adopting usual city planning methods, the FeliCity project is based on the idea of developing a poly-centric urban region based on the Gross National Happiness concept. It proposes that the key strategy in developing an emotional landscape of the region of Belt 1 is to regulate the levels of happiness so as to maintain a state of ‘emotional equilibrium’ across it. This would enable each city in the belt to develop at its maximum potential with their high happiness indices.

The project proposes that the M8 be replaced by a new transport system, named Plutchik2, which other than being a mass rapid transit system is also a means to regulate the emotions of commuters from one city to another. Thus, through regulating and transferring the emotional energy of happiness from one city to another, this ideal state can be achieved.

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