Monthly Focus: Sustainable Cities

How do we make our cities smarter, greener, happier places to live? Creative thinking in transport, building, food policy, urban habitats and technology offers inspired solutions.

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Night Lights in Auckland
Night Lights in Auckland

Spot­ted giant shadow pup­pets? Your eyes weren’t deceiv­ing you. YesYesNo at work (and at play) on the walls of the Auck­land Ferry Building.

Video: Informalism inspires with activist architecture
Video: Informalism inspires with activist architecture

Hugo Moline takes us on a tour of community-created hous­ing across our region, and intro­duces us to Sydney’s Kapit-bahayan Filipino hous­ing co-operative, a poten­tial model for a medium-density city.

Work-Life: how can art unite a community?
Work-Life: how can art unite a community?

How can art bring com­munit­ies together? Work-Life explores this ques­tion, using the unique cul­tural melt­ing pot of Singa­pore as a rich start­ing point for discussion.

Video mapping Jakarta: history through technology
Video mapping Jakarta: history through technology

Watch the 3D video map­ping pro­jec­ted onto the Jakarta His­tory Museum, in front of an audi­ence of thou­sands, telling the story of Jakarta from swamp set­tle­ment to metropolis.

The recycled home: plastics reborn
The recycled home: plastics reborn

They’re tak­ing sus­tain­able product pro­duc­tion up a notch in Swansea UK, build­ing mod­u­lar houses out of recycled com­puter and tele­vi­sion cases.

Designers at play: tracking trains
Designers at play: tracking trains

Design­ers around the region are pick­ing up on the play­ful pos­sib­il­it­ies that lie in the struc­tures and signs around us. Yiy­ing Lu and zeroperzero are let­ting their ima­gin­a­tions loose on sub­way maps…