Would Like To Meet_ 19 Greek Street, London

Posted on July 20, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

It is HOT. With temperatures soaring into the 90’s and reaching a seven-year high, I’m pounding the pavements of London. My energies ebb with every step. The air is a dead weight and I can literally feel exhaust fumes wafting through me; the underground is choked up, diversions from road works and building sites all conspire … Continue reading →

*Playing / Curated Spaces_ / The Word On The Street

Happy Feet…

Posted on July 16, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Love this… it’s been around for a while, but great to revisit and remind ourselves how innovation can change people’s mindset… add in a bit of playfulness and it can help us choose a better way of being! Continue reading →

Anti- / Fashion / Socio-Cultural / Would Like To Meet

Would Like To Meet_ Steve Oklyn, NOT VOGUE

Posted on July 1, 2013 by CuratedFutures • 3 Comments

How do you take on the mighty world of fashion, shake it awake and begin a revolution? By playing to its vanity, creating your own carnivale hall of mirrors… and dragging it inside? This is what Steve Oklyn, creator of NOTVOGUE.com seems to have succeeded via his online magazine, with its glossy photos and terse … Continue reading →

Guilty Pleasures / Snapshot

Out To Lunch

Posted on June 26, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Am ‘out to lunch’, only indoors… in a market. These places have a tradition here, something to do with the Great British weather. It seems like I eat out a lot. I don’t but when I do I like it to engage ALL senses. Today it’s Cardiff’s indoor market. A whirl of aromas, swish of … Continue reading →

Design P*rn

Design P*rn_ ‘GIO’ By Stefano & Francesco Borella

Posted on June 10, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Concrete drawers? It sounds like a term the Mafia might use, but these drawers by GIQ and Sai Industries at the House of Detention during Clerkenwell Design Week are anything but sinister. A 3mm concrete veneer never before seen in furniture applications, creates functional, elegant pieces with the cool, smooth touch and the solid look of concrete, contrasted with timber … Continue reading →

*Futuring / Curated Spaces_ / Innovation

The Walls Have Ears…

Posted on June 6, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Created using raspberry pi and openframeworks, ‘murmur’ is an architectural prosthesis that enables the communication between passers-by and the wall upon which it is connected by simulating the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual world. Based on a collaborative and open approach, participating studios Chevalvert, 2Roqs, Polygraphik and … Continue reading →

Take 5_ / Tune

Welcome To My World

Posted on May 31, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Desolation, battling personal demons, grinding guitar riffs, corrupted innocence, polished 80’s electro beats, forbidden love, lyrics that bleed into dreams… No one quite puts it together like the lads from Basildon; Depeche Mode are back and we haven’t stopped playing the new album #deltamachine #curatedaddiction Continue reading →

*Community / Curated Spaces_ / Design

Surf The Sky, Eat The View

Posted on May 31, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

This large piece of inhabitable public art, designed by Atmos, is the centrepiece commissioned for this year’s City of London Festival, and opens opposite St Pauls Cathedral on 24th June. The Mobile Orchard re-imagines what urban fruit trees could be. It centres on a vast sculpture of two inhabitable intertwining trees, with climbable electric-veined trunks, … Continue reading →

*Retailing / Curated Spaces_ / So This Just Happened

Blooming Marvellous

Posted on May 28, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

If exploring London’s Kensington area this week, check out Chelsea Fringe—the alternative garden show that is happening in and around the neighbourhood from 18 May to 9 June. The displays are intended as a creative compliment to the famous Chelsea Flower Show which decorates Kensington in blooms every May. Several galleries and shops in the … Continue reading →

Music

Charmed, I’m Sure

Posted on May 28, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Anyone who has ever experienced unrequited love or the 1980s has a special, lonely, disappointed place in his/her heart for The Smiths. The Manchester-based mope-pop band has been provoking floods of feelings for decades. Although after an acrimonious split in 1987, former frontman Steven Patrick Morrissey has often vowed that fans would never see The … Continue reading →