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Form meets substance: the green innovation in fashion
In today´s moment of crisis and economical downturn, as the media call it today, there's a sector that knows no decline: sustainable fashion. Such a moment of widespread concern seems actually to be the perfect boost supported by unprecedented approval. Being sustainable today is cool!
This is the clear impression that I got strolling around th...
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Feb 07, 2011 | Categories: Experimentation & Innovation | Tags: berlin, design, fashion, innovation, sustainability | 3 Comments »
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Zona Tortona: author Harriet Russel and the wonder of childhood
Per chi pensa che Zona Tortona a Milano esiste solo quando c'è il Salone del Mobile si sbaglia di grosso. Vi consiglio di percorrerla questi giorni . Magari portatevi ancora l'ombrello e un paio di scarpe comode e curiosate tra le vie. Sarete sorpresi di trovare artigiani e piccoli gioielli culturali quasi nascosti come la Libreria 121 (via Savo...
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May 24, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: book, experience, harriet russel, milan, social, sustainability, zona tortona | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
In the words of economist Jeremy Rifkin: “In 2007 more than half of the world’s population will live in cities”. I would add that there is no alternative. More than just large dormitories, mega-cities are places which attract the greatest investments in order to create and maintain the structures that guarantee the fundamental aspects of thei...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aggression, andrea illy, architects, cafe, cities, coffee, cosmopolitan, culture, enviroment, espressamente, healthcare, howard schulz, illycaffe, intolerance, jeremy rifkin | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
Today, in 2007 (yes, 2007 is fast approaching), for the first time in the history of mankind, more than 50% of the population lives in cities. Just a century ago, when our great-grandparents or grandparents were alive, a few generations back, 90% lived in the countryside, and only 10% in cities. A transformation on a global scale. On an astronomica...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: a tale of two cities, amsterdam, architects, architecture, bangkok, biennale, buildings, cairo, charles dickens, cities, complexity, countryside, democracy, ecological, future | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
Over the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: antonio damasio, aristotle, beautiful, business, cash, coffee, company, consumers, developing, emotion, excellence, growth, heart, illy, intellectual | Leave A Comment »
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#25 Innovage
I’m a believer in the “I” words. Ideas, Intuition, Invention, Inspiration, innovation… and now… Innovage. Add vintage to innovation and you’ll be time traveling, speeding back to the future. This implosion of past, present and future is what the Aboriginal people of Australia called “the Everywhen.” It was, and is, timeless time. Th...
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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: apple, australia, barolos, ben sherman, best, bob dylan, brunellos, chanel, change, chaos, color, consumer, earth, every day, everywhen | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
Andrea Segrè, dean of the agricultural faculty at Bologna University, is one of the founders of Lastminutemarket. The association was established in 1998 with the scope of recovering waste and turning into an opportunity. It does this by withdrawing food products close to their expiry date but still on the shelf from chain stores and other sources...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea segre, being good, best before, bikes, bologna, cheese, children, detergents, economic system, edible food, environmental, food, good looking, haccp, health | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
There are certain criteria involved in buying a car nowadays; some of these we could define as “mathematical”, such as price or performance, easily comparable between makes and models. There are also more subjective factors, that depend on our personal tastes, such as the shape, or the combination of lines and colours that define a car’s styl...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bavarian, bmw, car, carbon dioxide, cars, clean, colours, company, customers, dingolfing, dow jones, efficiency, environmental, flexibility, german | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
Business and ethics: we discuss the issue with Sebastiano Maffettone, author of Etica Pubblica (Public Ethics) (Il Saggiatore, 2001), chief editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues), lecturer of Political Philosophy and Social Ethics [ http://www.luiss.it ] and visiting professor at Harvard [ http://www.ha...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: behaviour, business, company, consumers, consumption, corporation, dogood gimmickery, eco system, efficiency, enterprise, ethic, ethics, fair trade, human beings, idea | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
The attraction of large urban areas and developing countries in particular obviously still exerts a very strong influence. Yet perhaps we can now assert that even at this stage, we have to rethink the concept of the megalopolis as being linked to the familiar phenomena of overpopulation and overcrowding. Obviously, density has both positive and n...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 21st century, abandoned areas, architecture, berlin, centre, community, compact city, concept, de industrialisation, dichotomy, energy control, environmental resources, fulvio irace, human beings, large urban areas | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
The House of illycaffé is heading for its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. When approaching these milestones the need to stop and ponder, to do a bit of stock-taking, to snap a self-timer shot of corporate performance and achievements thus far, is felt more than ever. The very title of one of the major events to celebrate, with all our collabo...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, anniversary, brand, coffee, company, consumers, corporate, cosmopolitan, customers, development, economic, enviromental, future, illycaffe, individual | Leave A Comment »
