The Canary Islands are constantly receiving plastic from Northern sea currents. Yum design collects plastic from de Canary coast, mainly single-use plastic, to create long life expectancy and high-quality furniture. This plastic is mixed with a small amount of domestic single-use plastic to ensure an optimum furniture finishing. Our furniture demonstrates that ocean plastic can be used for a purpose that matches better with plastic properties.
Wroclaw’s demonstration projects tackle the dual risks of flooding and heat stress. They are located in the Olbin district, a dense urban area that ranges from wealthy to socially deprived. They include several nature-based solutions– swales, raingardens and greenery. Community gardens and natural play areas gave space for the local people to socialize and produce their own vegetables. Biodiversity also benefits from the improved habitat, birdhouses and insect hotels.
The 5 Senses Open-air Museum of Sciacca is a bottom-up tourism innovation project: the local community is the protagonist and works together to transform the town’s cultural heritage, art, crafts, history, gastronomy and landscapes - into beautiful, unforgettable, inclusive, cultural tourism experiences.
The town becomes an open-air living museum where, by enhancing the community competencies and empowering individuals to transform local resources, a sustainable development is generated.
As a multi-generational participative project, The Epic has forever preserved the heritage of the "Chemin de l’Ile", a large social housing district of Nanterre, where multi-cultural generations have been living since the 70s. Through the life stories of the elders, recorded by the young ones, it has captured the unique identity of a diverse neighbourhood that is about to experience a profound transformation through an extensive urban renewal programme. A remarkable community building model !
Domestica Community - An Emerging Cultural Oasis in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Domestica is an estate and a community that brings together people of similar thinking, feelings and actions in a simple and magical story that opens the door that lead to a better world. Domestica seeks to encourage us to return to nature, where man and nature act in collaboration and synchronization, in harmonious rhythm of existence. Domestica discovers and teaches us the secrets of nature which are inexhaustible.
We have put together ideas, energies, creativity, sustainability and synergies to color our future.
With the TOGETHER WE CAN project, the Chiara Lazzaro kindergarten of the Leonardo da Vinci Comprehensive Institute in Ispica has begun the second part of the redevelopment works of the small square in front of the school. https://youtu.be/yDosknt2wpI We want to thank all those who will make themselves available with a gesture,with a contribution or with their performance... Together we can car
More than an eco-festival, it’s a celebration of art open air that aims to reconnect humans with nature. A meeting for everyone from babies to elders in a community and non-profit environment. Where artistic manifestation and ecological principles are shared organically and in synergy with the living landscape. Transporting people to a way of being that seems increasingly utopian these days.
It is a self-managed cultural center in a marginal neighborhood of Zaragoza, run in an assembly-based manner. Our vision works to help people and groups create, experiment, and transform. It's an open space for the entire city, with more than 40 social entities participating. Any person with an idea of a social nature can make a proposal to the assembly. It lives in the heart of the neighborhood, along with the thousands of people who shape it and find their space in it.
Openbike is a manifesto on sustainable urbanism, urban transport, distributed manufacturing, shared knowledge, the community and the responsible use of resources, that materializes in the design of a non-polluting urban transport, the bicycle, that can be manufactured by its own user within the city where it is going to be used.
This project aims to bring people closer to the unique ecosystem of the Pletera Itinerary through sensory discoveries with a collection of artistic and functional, sustainable and handcrafted pieces made with solid wood and vegetable fibers. The project follows the philosophy of Universal Design.The aim is to encourage the improvement of our community values and promote a more respectful relationship with nature, that combines nature, art and communication.
