Future Visions

Living Light: Seoul’s smart city shelter
17 December 2009
Living Light: Seoul’s smart city shelter

Liv­ing Light uses hi-tech know-how to illus­trate one of the most basic ele­ments of human life — the qual­ity of the air we breathe — and to engage with people near and far.

Sleepless in Seoul: 48-hour Inclusive Design Challenge
1 December 2009

50 design­ers from more than 10 coun­tries got together dur­ing the Seoul Design Olympiad to develop inclus­ive think­ing and to meet a big chal­lenge — design­ing for leis­ure, pleas­ure and social inter­ac­tion for all.

Lonely in a crowd? Social Inclusion Week
27 November 2009
Lonely in a crowd? Social Inclusion Week

Some­times, in a big city, an indi­vidual can feel that they’re walk­ing alone in a sea of strangers. Social Inclu­sion Week aims to address the issue of social frag­ment­a­tion through fun shared experiences.

Growing up under street lights
24 November 2009
Growing up under street lights

For almost 50,000 young people in Aus­tralia, the streets serve as home, school and play­ground. Youth Off The Streets con­nect with young city dwell­ers to show them they’re not invisible.

Charles Landry: What is a Creative City?
3 November 2009
Charles Landry: What is a Creative City?

A leader in the city-making move­ment, Landry defines cre­at­ive cit­ies as “places where you can think, plan and act with ima­gin­a­tion”, and dis­cusses how to unleash the cre­at­ive poten­tial of a city.

News: Asia’s social entrepreneurs
14 September 2009

On this year’s list of Schwab Found­a­tion lead­ers: people who change lives with a phone call, edu­ca­tion pro­grams that empower migrant women with fin­an­cial intel­li­gence to trans­form their home­lands, and street kids with skills to develop con­fid­ence and stabilty.