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Clothes libraries in Sweden and England

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by Adrien Geneste | 11.29.11

In Sweden, almost one item of clothing out of two never sees the light while textile consumption keeps increasing. In order to stop this nonsense, four women created, during the Stockholm Fashion Week, the first clothes library.

London’s transport system is transformed into a massive playground

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by Adrien Geneste | 11.18.11

And what happens when a public transport network becomes the scene of gigantic team games? Inspired by the principle of Fun Theory, which suggests that environmentally responsible behavior can be encouraged through attractive infrastructure, Chromaroma invites London Underground users to participate in an eco-citizen turf war.

A musical bench sets the tempo in the city

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by Adrien Geneste | 10.24.11

Designed by Michael Shoner, a German architect, and exhibited for the first time in 2008 in Amsterdam, the Boom Bench is first and foremost a factor of sociality.

Sound Delta Wild, digital technology in the service of nature

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by Adrien Geneste | 10.10.11

Born from an idea put forward by the WWF to increase the presence of wildlife in cities, the Sound Delta Wild application helps users explore their surroundings through sound, transmitted via their smartphone headphones or supporting media.

Lean de vie is developing health solutions favouring good behaviours and prevention

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by Adrien Geneste | 09.26.11

Lean de vie is an innovative start-up offering a new vision of medicine. With the saying “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” as a course of action to develop solutions favouring good behaviours and prevention, Professor Raoul Ghozlan and Doctor Corinne Ghozlan have emphasised a proactive health approach.

In Nantes, l’épicier d’art sells low price artworks

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by Adrien Geneste | 09.11.11

Claude Savinel established the principle of l’épicier d’art (the art grocer) in 2002 with a single idea in mind: to democratize art for everyone to buy and exhibit.

The city of Murcia offers car drivers to swap their cars for lifelong season tickets

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by Adrien Geneste | 07.28.11

In order to encourage users to take its brand new tramway, the Murcia (Spain) city council, launched an innovative initiative offering people to have access to this means of transport for free and for life.

The Sol-Violette of Toulouse, an engine of economic solidarity

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by Adrien Geneste | 07.27.11

Inaugurated on May 6th in Toulouse, and designed with the aim of encouraging a society of responsible consumption, the Sol-Violette, the new ethical local currency, is already making waves.

Street art exhibited on the Net

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by Adrien Geneste | 07.12.11

New websites have just appeared on the Net, promoting street art works, from paintings to graffitis including chalk drawings.

In London, homeless people create a garden on the Southbank Centre roof

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The Ecologist | 07.04.11 | Quick Read

“In the past, instead of this garden, there was a dreary, grey and hard-surfaced space,” Paul Pulford reported to The Ecologist. Now it is a green haven of peace.” This former homeless man, with the help of fifty volunteer workers, set his heart on creating a shared garden on the Southbank Centre roof in order [...]

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Paris City Council Innovation Grand Prizes: French innovators awarded for their creativity

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Greater Geneva: an economic and social project at the heart of innovation

Urbanism | 12.16.11

The Greater Geneva project represents an economic and social challenge for that area spanning France and Switzerland. The aim is to set in motion again a process that will stimulate job creation in the French part and strengthen residential services in the Swiss part. Innovative activities should find their place in that territory.

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Innovation lies also in the strategy

Social | 09.08.11

Is the proliferation of urban innovations counter-productive? While some cities are experimenting with abandon and with no real apparent logic, others have adopted a long-term strategy to combine innovations to serve a smarter, more sustainable city. Jean Haëntjens returns to this forum to talk about how important it is for cities to approach innovation with consistency and control.

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London’s transport system is transformed into a massive playground

And what happens when a public transport network becomes the scene of gigantic team games? Inspired by the principle of Fun Theory, which suggests that environmentally responsible behavior can be encouraged through attractive infrastructure, Chromaroma invites London Underground users to participate in an eco-citizen turf war.

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Pop-Up City , the blog of Jeroen Beekmans

Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge

Urbanism | 01.05.12

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and Rotterdam-based architecture firm ZUS have launched the project I Make Rotterdam, a spectacular temporary pedestrian bridge between the city’s Central and the North districts that will be financed through crowd-funding.

Quinte & Sens , the blog of Olivier Genevois

In Caracas, mimes ease traffic tension

Education | 11.07.11

Venezuela’s capital Caracas plans to manage its traffic flow in an unusual fashion. In addition to traffic police, 120 mimes dressed up as clowns were sent into the city’s streets. Their role? Curb the risky behavior of pedestrians and drivers, not by force or repression, but through silence.

Agenda Innov'in The City

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Energy Cities annual meeting, Guimarães, Portugal.

May 12
International Workshop on Open Data, Nantes, France.

May 12
Stockholm Summit on Service Innovation in Cities, Stockholm, Suède.

Innovative city zoom

Toulouse has tackled issues ranging from urban lighting to public cleanliness with experimental innovation often on a shoestring budget, but the results continue to inspire many other cities in France and worldwide. A portrait of a city embracing urban innovation, helped along by the enthusiastic investigator Alexander Marciel, follows.