How to navigate peoples energy consumption by the use of smart technologies has been a challange for the last couple of years. Fran Castillo tries to solve this problem by cmobining the realt time visualization of the energy consumption of a whole city and autonomous, decentralized energy systems.

We all know online collaboration tools and are more or less familar with them. But how can you rethink crowd based cultural production? The project Social Device is approaching this question in a new way…..

A giant lung built out of old cars and cleaning New Delhi´s air, that´s the idea of the architect Julien Combes and the engineer Gaël Brulé! And here is an excerpt of their submission…..

In one of my earlier posts I presented the concept of the Haberlandt project by the blablabLABs and because they received a honorary mention for their idea we invited them to paricipate in this years Festival; here are some impresssions….

By combining a technologicial system with an ecosystem the blablabLABs created a first prototype of an almost autonomous food vending machine, and therefor recieved a “[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant” honorary mention.