urban

Shanghai-Helsinki @ Design Museum - Everyday stories from Chongming

Submitted by andrea.mendoza on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 10:56pm

Tags

urban, Rural, Helsinki, Design Harvests

Design Harvests has been invited by the Design Museum in Helsinki to participate in the Design World Exhibition http://www.designmuseum.fi/en/nayttely/designworld-3/ , scheduled in the agenda of Helsinki World Design Capital. The exhibition opened at the end of January and will last until May 6th 2012, in case you have the chance to visit it.

The Art of Free Making - "re-sublimating our everyday lives" Interview with Vincent Moon

Submitted by andrea.mendoza on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 5:49am

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urban, trust, nomad, music, filmmaker

 

"… as long as money is not part of our game, pleasure is at the core. The pure pleasure of being generous with someone else, makes you feel good.It’s a very banal thing to say, but it's a definitive truth we shouldn't avoid."

V.M.

PINKER: Finding partners or group to have daily life action together

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:53am

Countries

China

Tags

urban, neighborhood

Themes

community building
Link: 
PINKER
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Pinkenet is an E-platform where participants could publish and share the information for finding the partners and group. It was organized by several sections to make searching easier. Participants are mostly Yong people who leave from their families and hometown to new cities to work and live. Lack of families and friends makes them life boring and alone.
Background/ Context: 
With industrialization, the population of cities grow fast with new immigrations. Most of them are the young who leave from their families and hometown to new cities to work and live. Lack of families and friends makes them life boring and alone. Then those young start to connect with others who are in the similar situations through some channels like pinkenet to have activities together like dinner, entertainment, travel, shopping, sports, game and etc. By those activities, those young peoples increase their life quality and make more friends, have more social fabric connections.
Case Description: 

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With E-platform, urban people (mostly young) could find partners or group who they don’t know each other to have activities together. With economic prices, Pinker participants would have more social life and social connection and to have some services and experiences, which increase the life quality to individuals and solidarity to society. 

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

Those urban young find a solution for themselves to re-establish the social connections in new places with an economic and easy and sustainable way.