Archive for the 'Experience' Category
The Macallan and Roja Dove Sensory Experience
Posted on Dezembro 20, 2011 - Filed Under Design, Experience | Leave a Comment
Whisky is a complex spirit with a range of flavors. The Macallan recognizes that introducing whisky to some people requires a bit of education. Knowing that smell is such an important element in taste, they thought it would be an interesting experiment to teach people about the flavors of whisky. The Macallan‘s partnership with celebrated [...]
The Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant
Posted on Novembro 29, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Food, Services | Leave a Comment
The Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant is a concept resulted by the collaboration between Catalan designer Martà Guixé and Finnish food visionary Antto Melasniemi. Is a concept built around a solar kitchen, where the food is cooked using only alternative energy: the sun. Unlike the traditional way of cooking, solar heat affects [...]
Theatre for one
Posted on Novembro 15, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Performance | Leave a Comment
Theatre for One is project conceived by Christine Jones , a freelance set designer.
Theatre for One is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member, that turns public events into private acts.
You can check a video here.
Limelight: Saturday Night
Posted on Novembro 14, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Social | Leave a Comment
Limelight: Saturday Night is a project created by Sans façon taken place in 2010 in six cities across the UK and America, where a selection of sidewalks has been turned into a impromptu stages by turning streetlights into theatre spotlights. The result is an astonishing mix of reactions.
The simple intervention replaces two streetlights with [...]
Lullaby @ Barbican
Posted on Novembro 8, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Performance | Leave a Comment
Lullaby is a gentle, slumber show designed to send you to sleep. Bring your pyjamas and toothbrush and pile up the zzz’s at this romantic rock-a-bye nocturne. Book a single, a double or a triple bed and sleep with us on a summer night in the city. Enjoy your reveries as sister songstresses H. Plewis, [...]
Swallowable Parfum
Posted on Agosto 22, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Nanotechnology, Technology, Trends | Leave a Comment
Swallowable Parfum is a digestible scented capsule that works through your own perspiration. Once absorbed, fragrance molecules are excreted through the skin’s surface. A unique odor is emanated, depending on each individual’s acclimatization to temperatures, to stress, exercise, or sexual arousal.
This utterly intimate technology is being developed by body architect Lucy McRae in a collaboration [...]
Improv Everywhere – Carousel Horse Race
Posted on Agosto 1, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Interactive, Performance, Social | Leave a Comment
Another one from Improv Everywhere.
Lea Redmond – The World’s Smallest Postal Service
Posted on Julho 13, 2011 - Filed Under Creativity, Experience, Services, Social | 20 Comments
The WSPS began in 2008 as a quirky little social art project. Postmaster Lea Redmond sets up her tiny roaming office in cafes and shops in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond and offers a teeny tiny letter transcription service to passers-by. At these appearances the letters are transcribed by [...]
sebastian errazuriz: opera fireplace
Posted on Julho 1, 2011 - Filed Under Creativity, Design, Experience | 19 Comments
Opera fireplace is a new project created by Sebastian Errazuriz.
It is a hand-carved from 600 pounds of italian marble,this sculpture reproduces an opera stage complete with curtains, stage, floorboards and stairs, yet is also fully functional, designed to be installed in any house.
The fireplace comes equipped with several wooden figures and a scaffolding structure, constructed [...]
James Bridle РRobot Fl̢neur
Posted on Junho 16, 2011 - Filed Under Digital Culture, Experience, Social | 13 Comments
Robot Flâneur is a project made by London-based writer and programmer James Bridle, which claims to be an explorer for Google Street View. It allows you to virtually stroll the streets of nine different world cities. The website tends to re-examine Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur — a person who walks the [...]