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Selected from Micromobility fair in Amsterdam 2022
During this year’s Micromobility fair in Amsterdam, Podbike CEO Åge Højmark had the privilege of presenting the FRIKAR e-bike to some of the industry’s brightest micromobility entrepreneurs in a rapid-fire pitch series. Micromobility Industries was kind enough to send us the recording, which can also be found on their YouTube channel. Have a look at the 6-min pitch
Timefulness The New Mindfulness?
Feeling burnt out by the multitude of crises we all face?
The Long Time Academy podcast created in collaboration with Headspace studios explores how long time thinking could be the answer
GOLD – Best Independent Podcast, ARIAS 2022
SILVER – The Climate Award, British Podcast Awards 2022
As we hurtle through 2022 many of us are stressed out and exhausted by the uncertainty of a post-pandemic world and by huge challenges like climate change, systemic racism, and inequality. New podcast series The Long Time Academy steps into this space with one clear message: changing the way we choose to engage with time can be life-changing, both when it comes to the problems we’re facing day-to-day, and the huge threats we’re facing as a species.
Hosted by Ella Saltmarshe, co-founder of The Long Time Project and rising star award nominee at this year’s British podcast awards, created in collaboration with award-winning Headspace Studios, this six-episode series takes listeners on an emotional, spiritual and intellectual journey through our new normal, asking “is timefulness the new mindfulness?”. As listeners enrol, learn and eventually graduate from the titular academy, they experience interviews, immersive sound design, deeply personal anecdotes, playful time-travel, history and the latest academic research.
“We are pioneering The Long Time Movement”, says Ella. “All over our society people are coming together to challenge the short-termism that’s destroying our planet and society. Lawyers, politicians, economists, scientists, and young people are building this movement from the ground-up. You can meet them in the Long Time Academy. Our hope is to transform how listeners feel about the time they have on earth, offering an emotional and practical toolkit, for now, that will help them develop their capacity to be good ancestors.”
Throughout the six episodes, Ella explores listeners’ relationships with time, speaking to adrienne maree brown, Ahmed Best, Alua Arthur, Brian Eno, Celeste Headlee, George The Poet, Kate Raworth, Katie Paterson, Lonny Brooks and Louise Herne (Mama Bear) to name a few, all part of a 40 strong guest faculty who have come together to teach one of the most important classes of the year.
Each episode is accompanied by a ‘Long Time Practice’ to enable listeners to not just understand the ideas in the podcast, but to actually feel them. These include a deep time practice that takes listeners back through the 4.6-billion-year evolution of the Earth, a death meditation created by an end-of-life specialist, a meditation to decolonise your imagination created and read by Ahmed Best (who plays Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars), and a rarely heard thanksgiving meditation by Mama Bear, Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council.
“The Long Time Academy succeeds in being both a truly transformative and entertaining podcast series, as well as a powerful antidote to the chronic overwhelm we all feel in the face of climate change, racial and economic inequality, the pandemic, and more”, said Ash Jones, Executive Producer at Headspace Studios. “Inviting us to reconsider how we think about time helps solve threats to our existence as a species and improves our own day-to-day lives.”
ARIAS Judges commented, “A wonderful philosophy about the transformational power of listening wrapped up in a wonderful podcast that challenges the nature of time. Immersive, thought-provoking and purposeful, it’s a brilliant use of the medium combining gorgeous production, entrancing stories and life-enhancing ideas. The Long Time Academy intentionally slows you down through sound; evocative, original and full of intriguing connections between the past, present and future.”
On social media, listeners have called the show ‘genuinely incredible’, ‘a masterpiece’, ‘profoundly moving’, ‘a landmark in human transformation’, ‘one of the most inspiring, moving and well-considered interventions when it comes to climate change and caring about future generations’, ‘beautifully bridging the intimately personal with systemic political questions.’ One listener commented, “This podcast series is so frickin’ good. If these ideas could be beamed directly into the minds of the world’s most powerful, I’d have a lot more hope for the future.”
Ella has also curated a Long Time Playlist to accompany your journey across space and time, starting with the oldest song in the world, The Hymn of Ugarit, through to vocal artist and creative technologist Reeps One with his otherworldly, genre-transcending sounds and rhythms, exploring the past, present and future of vocal expression. In between fly through the airport with Brian Eno, listen under the moon with Sam Lee and take a walk in Berkeley Square and hear a nightingale sing.
The Long Time Academy is a partnership between Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project and is produced by Scenery Studios. It is available for free on all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and more.
Three Finalists Revealed for the 2022 Davidson Prize
The second annual Davidson Prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design of the home has revealed its 2022 finalists. Selected from a longlist of exceptional quality, the three design concepts represent diverse and innovative approaches to this year’s theme of Co-Living – A New Future?
The 2022 Davidson Prize longlist spanned themes including modular solutions, retrofit, networks of community care, rural development, humanising the city, food as the basis of community and rethinking housing models for single-parent families.
The three finalist projects are very different but each communicates a strong, innovative concept in a compelling way along with a clear direction for potential roll out. Each of the proposals advances discussion around co-living as a design solution and is born out of a multidisciplinary approach.
The Finalists will be given £5,000 to develop their ideas in the form of a visual media presentation. The Davidson Prize overall winner will be announced in June 2022 during the London Festival of Architecture and will be awarded a £10,000 prize.
The 2022 Finalists:Co-Living in the Countryside by Charles Holland Architects with Quality of Life Foundation, Verity-Jane Keefe, Joseph Zeal-Henry
This proposal seeks to re-invigorate rural communities with co-living and a new type of shared, communal housing that is more focused on wellbeing and less reliant on car ownership. Addressing issues including affordability and loneliness, the concept promotes the principles of co-design and customisation alongside a new model of co-operatively owned and managed space that shares resources and facilities. The team identifies a typical new housing site in a real location as their testbed.
Communiversity by Moebius Studio (Moebius Studio, Totem Record, OHMG Video, The Panics, Alex Klein Productions, Armanios Design)
Communiversity is an educational institution and social enterprise – a way of facilitating co-living by providing knowledge and resources. The idea is to address the lack of support and guidance available for people interested in pursuing communal living by disseminating hard and soft skills. The model incorporates learning by doing while transforming empty office and commercial spaces into an interconnected campus of physical space and online networks.
It Takes a Village by Child-Hood (Gankôgui, NOOMA Studio, London Early Years Foundation, Centric Lab)
A design concept for an urban community that fuses inclusive, family co-living anchored with affordable childcare. The child-centred approach combines expertise in early years education, neuroscience and social impact asset management, taking domestic functions out of isolation to offer better quality spaces and more social interaction. Play and social infrastructure lie at the heart of the design model, which centres around nature-focused inside / outside play spaces.
The 2022 jury panel is comprised of architects Paul Monaghan (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris), Mary Duggan (Mary Duggan Architects) and Agnieszka Glowacka (Haptic Architects), journalist Amy Frearson (Dezeen Editor-at-Large), multi-disciplinary artist Yinka Ilori (Yinka Ilori Studio) and educator and curator Manijeh Verghese (The Architectural Association and Unscene Architecture).
The Davidson Prize judge, Manijeh Verghese said: “The Davidson Prize is unique in the platform it creates to develop new ideas around the home, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and celebrate the role of architects as communicators. I am really enjoying being part of the process with such a wealth of innovative ideas about co-living to learn from. The proposals from the three finalists showcase the breadth of ideas presented spanning the urban and the rural, from grassroots initiatives to new institutional models. It will be exciting to see how these three concepts will be brought to life in the next stage as they each reveal how the home can be transformed into a collective and collaborative space in the future.”
To see the finalist and longlist submissions, please visit www.thedavidsonprize.com.
The Davidson Prize said “Thanks to the generous support of VitrA Bathrooms, the judging sessions for the 2022 Davidson Prize were hosted at the VitrA London Design Hub on Turnmill Street, Clerkenwell. VitrA Bathrooms also sponsored this year’s People’s Choice Prize, the winner will be announced during the ceremony in June 2022”
100 Free Night’s Stay for NHS Workers
edyn announce it will pledge 100 free nights to NHS workers in partnership with NHS rewards initiative, Nights On Us.
The pledge – which totals 50 two-night stays – will be shared across the edyn portfolio, at four of its Locke and Cove locations over the coming months.
Nights On Us was established during the peak of the pandemic, and partners with hospitality brands to thank NHS workers by offering free hotel stays. Since its launch last year, the initiative has already offered over 7,000 free hotel rooms to NHS workers.
Earlier this month, edyn’s lifestyle aparthotel brand Locke announced its first partnership with Nights On Us, which was organised in collaboration with intimate gig specialists Sofar Sounds. The first-of-its-kind live music event took place on Sunday 25th July at Bermonds Locke in London and gave NHS workers the chance to win a free hotel stay and tickets to a specially-curated Sofar Sounds gig, which featured performances from Just Vic and Mcknasty.
The first campaign launched on 26 July 2021 and will give away 10 two-night stays at COVE Liverpool – the latest opening from edyn’s newly-launched serviced apartment brand, Cove. Subsequent announcements will be made about stays at Locke locations across the UK in the coming months.
Further to this, in an effort to spread their word of gratitude even further, edyn and Nights On Us are offering every entrant an exclusive Nights On Us Appreciation Code that will offer special rates at all Locke and Cove locations. NHS workers that are interested in entering the giveaway can visit www.nightsonus.co.uk/cove-liverpool and enter their details for the chance to win a stay.
Stephen McCall, CEO of edyn said, “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Nights On Us as a gesture of sincere thanks to the NHS for its unrelenting hard work and dedication – throughout the pandemic, and far beyond. Nights On Us is an important partner for us, and the experiences it has created to date is truly commendable. We hope that through this collaboration, NHS workers can find sanctuary from their day-to-day with us, and a moment of well-earned respite.”
Greg Früchtenicht, Co-Founder of Nights On Us said, “Since starting Nights On Us, our aim has always been to unite the UK hospitality industry to say a nationwide thank-you to our incredible NHS workers. Our Partnership with edyn is testament to the goodwill and generosity that our industry can show to some of the country’s hardest workers. This is just the start of our partnership, and we’re excited to continue thanking our NHS workers throughout the rest of 2021 and beyond.”
ARTSTHREAD Support the Future Generations of Creative Talent
Following the success of the inaugural Global Design Graduate Show in 2020, ARTSTHREAD have, for the second year running, teamed up with GUCCI who will be the exclusive partner for the Global Design Graduate Show 2021.
The 2020 show was the first-ever online showcase of the world’s leading emerging artists and designers and was created as a proactive response to the cancellation of end of year student exhibitions worldwide due to the current pandemic.
It has been ARTSTHREAD’s vision over the last 12 years to support the future generations of creative talent and by teaming up with Gucci for 2021, they will be able to offer students a chance to succeed in gaining employment or launching an individual business during the continued unprecedented times.
Following on from the roster of high-profile industry judges in 2020, ARTSTHREAD and GUCCI have enlisted distinguished and esteemed creatives from across the globe to assist in judging the 2021 competition. The Global Design Graduate Show 2021 is divided per creative specialism, each with its own selection of renowned judges.
Product, Architecture and Interiors
Adrian Jankowiak Nairobi Design Week / Alberto Perazza Magis / Chris Livaudais IDSA / Clodagh Clodagh Design / David Morris Design Exchange / Ewa Dominiak Service Design Fringe Festival / Federica Bertolini Azimut Benetti Group / Francesca Perry ICON / Gary Wheeler ASID / Howard Lichter Arrival / Ilene Shaw Design Pavilion / Ilona Gurjanova Estonian Association of Designers / Ingrid van der Wacht Dutch Design Foundation / Jose Cabaco adidas / Jose dos Santos Signify / Luca Putteman United Nations IOM / Maha Kutay & Woody Yao Zaha Hadid Design / Marcus Fairs Dezeen / Mazbahul Islam Safewheel / Milan Dinevski Future Architecture / Jamie Drake Drake/Anderson / Nick Chubb IDC / Oli Stratford Disegno / Phillip Hollander Houtlander / Ravi Naidoo Design Indaba / Richard Elder Herman Miller / Rory Dodd Ceneic / Sebastian Conran Sebastian Conran Associates / Stig Hansen Democratic Eyewear / Stuart Constantine Core77 / Tim Marlow OBE Design Museum / Tom Meades Gomi Design /
Valerie Hoffman NYCxDESIGN
Fashion, Accessories and Textiles
Alexander Shumsky Russian Fashion Council / Alexandra Kaloshina Solstudio / Andrew Thompson Fable Footworks / Anna La Germaine Fashion Politique / Anna Orsini British Fashion Council / Anne-Marie Curtis The Calendar Magazine / Anya Hindmarch / Branko Popovic FASHIONCLASH / Brooke Roberts-Islam Techstyler / Christina Dean Redress / Danilo Ventrui F’olitique / Desolina Suter Première Vision /Dylan Jones GQ / Edwina Kulego Liberty Fairs / Ella Hudson WGSN / Gayle Smith/ Ida Petersson Farfetch / Jackie Andrews-Udall Clerici Tessuto / Jacqueline Shaw Africa Fashion Guide / Jennie Rosen Swedish Fashion Council / Jane Kellock USP / Jonathan Cheung / Julian Vogel ModusBPCM / Katie Greenyer Pentland Group / Kristina Szasz/ Lee Holman Tommy Hilfiger / Lionel Vermeil Kering / Lutz Huelle Lutz / Mark Warburton Johnstons of Elgin / Matteo Bellentani Clarks Originals/ Mawi Keivom MAWI / Natalia Koter IBEFF / Neil Elliott Patternbank / Nikita Jayasuriya Parley for the Oceans / Ninette Murk Beauty Without Irony / Olya Kuryshchuk 1 Granary / Paul Glynn Nordstrom / Paul Vogel / Phil Dickinson Superdry / Rebekka Bay Marimekko / Sara Maino Vogue Italia / Satish Tailor Vollebak / Sonia Martin Everlane / Steven Burns Levi’s / Stuart McArthur Nike / Susanne Tide-Frater Browns / Suzanna Vock Gwand Festival / Tamsin Blanchard/ Tricia Carey Lenzing / Yu Masui/ Zaid Affas
Digital, Visual Communication and Film
Aaron Skipper Wieden+Kennedy / Alan Hau Virtual Touch / Ben Lavender VAHA / Bianca Ansems Gigglebug Entertainment / Chris Marsh Splendid Unlimited / Cosimo Surace Stranger & Stranger / Dave Gibson Draught Design / Dennis Elbers Graphic Matters / Francis Wong WARC / Ged Equi Caffeine Partnership / Gion-Men Kruegel-Hanna HEAD / Glen Tarr gt&i / Lars Denicke Pictoplasma / Luke Green & Fraser McNiven Studio Goblin / Marcus Werner Willow Glen Films / Maxim Young Gorilla Editors / Nicholas Yearwood MangoTree / Nick Parsons Apple / Nizzar Ben Chekroune UNIDO / Paul Bennett IDEO / Priscilla Ober Mary Kay / Rana Sidahmed Avery Dennison / Rocco Leo Gaglioti FNL Network / Ryan Robinson WarnerMedia / Sandra Borszcz The Big Draw / Sasha Vidakovic SV Design / Will Bernard Bath & Body Works
Fine Art, Photography and Craft
Alexandra Bircken/ Andrew Goldstein Artnet / Chantelle Purcell Artist Hive Studios / Chris Cheung XCEPT / Chris Soal/ Dan Goode Making Goode / David Sandu Romanian Jewelry Week / Ellie Pennick Guts Gallery / Emily Hlaváč Green / Gaynor Andrews The Goldsmiths’ Centre / Iona Rowland/ JB Jones NYC Jewelry Week / Jo Barker Re-Edition / Karen Olson American Craft Council / Keith Brymer Jones MAKE International / Lieta Marziali / Marina Elenskaya & Sarah Mesritz Current Obsession Magazine / Mark Westall FAD Magazine / Mohamed Somji Gulf Photo Plus / Nengi Omuku/ Peter Manning Prefab77 / Piyush Suri Handmade in Britain / Rosemary Steen Design & Crafts Council Ireland / Sarah Angold
Interactive Art Initiative to promote Wellbeing and Support Mental Health
The initiative includes five original illustrations from leading contemporary artists, incorporating AR technology to demonstrate the very best of creativity, charity and tech coming together in wellness collaboration to support NABS, the support organisation for the advertising and media industry.
Oskar illustration, an agency that focuses on craft and artistic brilliance, announced the sale of works by five illustrators from the Oi! collective. Partnering with Visualise, an immersive production studio specialising in augmented, virtual and mixed reality, the project is designed to bring the outdoors in, with an interactive AR twist to bring them to life. All proceeds will go to NABS, the support organisation for the advertising and media industry, with the aim to promote wellness and improved mental health in the creative industries after a year of lockdowns.
According to the Mental Health Foundation over half of the adult population in the UK felt anxious or worried towards the end of 2020. While anxiety caused by the stress of the pandemic has declined from 62% in March 2020 to 42% in late February 2021, research shows that nature has played a crucial role with 45% of the UK population saying that being in green space has been vital for their mental health.
NABS’ own statistics reveal that the long-term impact of Covid is affecting advertising and media employees. Requests for its grants service rose by six per cent in Q1 2020, reflecting the financial impact of a year of job cuts and furlough. Meanwhile, 29% of calls to NABS’ Advice Line were from people seeking emotional support after a very difficult year. Money raised from Oskar Illustration’s project will go directly towards helping people across advertising and media at this critical time.
“At Oskar illustration we believe that art can not only support more creative advertising campaigns, but that it can also be an essential instrument for a better quality of life in the industry,” said Oli Roberts, founder of Oskar illustration. “We are really excited to be able to support NABS ’cause with some of the brilliant and totally unique works from Oskar illustration artists, while also providing something for everyone to enjoy with an amazing AR experience that not only brings the images to life, but also brings hope for life after lockdown.”
Five of Oskar illustration’s artists have created bespoke posters to bring nature into people’s homes with a series of uplifting posters promoting the importance of nature through art. A limited number of exclusive posters will be going on sale live on the Oskar illustration website for one day only, all the proceeds will be donated to NABS to support its efforts in creating a better and healthier environment for the entire advertising and media industry.
Jo Bolger, senior partnerships manager, NABS, said: “NABS are very grateful for the generosity of these artists. Demand for NABS’ services rose by 35% last year, yet we suffered a huge loss in income due to the pandemic. This fundraising initiative will help us to continue our vital work at this crucial time.”
To bring these unique works to life, Oskar illustration has partnered with Visualise, an immersive production studio specialising in augmented reality, virtual and mixed reality content. Visualise provide an interactive experience triggered by the artwork itself, allowing people to watch the illustrations come to life in their homes.
“Working with Oskar illustration to bring their stunning artists’ work to life in a whole new way has been a fantastic creative challenge and a really rewarding initiative,” said Henry Stuart, founder and CEO at Visualise. ”This virtual reality experience will be available across Instagram and Facebook’s Spark AR platform. We are really proud to have been chosen for such an important campaign to provide a surprising alternate reality with these illustrations and bring a smile to people’s faces.”
Le Temps des Copains, Bertrand Aznar
Drawn from the artist’s own memories, the piece remembers all the good times spent with friends contemplating the beauty that nature offers us.
Travelling Daydream, Katherine Hardy
A wishful thinking illustration of where the artist wanted to be during lockdowns: the end of a warm day, lying on a sandy beach in Portugal.
Soon To Be, Paris Anthony-Walker
This piece highlights the fact that the world has had to find different ways of connecting with loved ones during the pandemic, but brings hope as we now start to come back together once again.
Sun Bob, Anton Hjertstedt
The piece shows how nature can make people feel alive again, recognising the goodness in life, even during lockdows.
Home Office, Haley Tippmann
The illustration shows the new working space, and a hopeful image with a desk fading from an indoor home office to a summer beach scene, to add to the hopeful feeling for better times to come.
The Blue Violet River, a fantasy-fiction world by Anita Fontaine
“I want to update the conventional guided tour into something magical that weaves together science fiction, environmental themes and local architecture into a future fairytale – as seen from the River Mersey Ferry” – Anita Fontaine
Step aboard the iconic Mersey Ferry to inhabit a fantasy-fiction world exploring an evolved reality brought about by climate change, rising sea levels and tropical climates.
Anita Fontaine’s augmented ecology of the River Mersey invites the viewer to suspend belief and encounter a kaleidoscopic world through custom-built viewfinders on the decks of a Mersey Ferry. Psychedelic audio-visual sculptures explode from land and water, and the Liverpool skyline playfully shapeshifts revealing a surreal alternate reality of the urban landscape in The Blue Violet River, with 3d creations by Fontaine and artist Ignas Blažys
The work can be experienced by passengers via eight custom-built, tablet-based viewfinders on the decks of the Mersey Ferry. AND Festival will also provide headphones at the terminal and on deck, for passengers who want to listen to the audio track. There will also be an abstract, physical, pop-up performance ritual during each cruise (Friday – Sunday), featuring costumed inhabitants of the River, from Anita’s Fontaine’s future fairytale.
The Blue Violet River playfully envisions a peaceful future vision of evolved humanity, freed from an unsustainable past and tuned into a new core consciousness of planetary sound frequencies. From the river’s intercontinental trade to the regular blooms of moon jellyfish drawn in by tidal currents, our post-industrial perspective of the River Mersey playfully warps in this future-forward techno fantasy.
We recommend starting The Blue Violet River from Pier Head, Liverpool. The total length of the cruise, augmented reality and audio experience is 50 minutes.
The Blue Violet River will be presented on board Mersey Ferries:
Thursday 24 June + Friday 25 June, cruises are every hour, on the hour 10am – 4pm (last cruise 4pm)
Saturday 26 June + Sunday 27 June, cruises are every hour, on the hour 10am – 5pm (last cruise 5pm)
Tickets: https://www.andfestival.org.uk/events/the-blue-violet-river/
Book your River Explorer Cruise ticket via the Mersey Ferries website. We recommend booking in advance and arriving 10 minutes before the cruise time, to collect headphones for the experience.
24 – 27 June | More info + tickets www.andfestival.org.uk/events/the-blue-violet-river
Dan Cruickshank’s Spitalfield Photographs
by the gentle author
Dan Cruickshank took these photographs – many of which are published here for the first time – between 1969 when he first came to Spitalfields and 1977 when he led the campaign to stop British Land destroying Elder St. “I did it to document the buildings that were here then,” he explained to me in regret, “but sometimes you’d go back the next Saturday and there’d be virtually nothing left.”
Words by the gentle author
A Series of Stunning Illustrations Celebrate People, Togetherness and Community
A series of stunning illustrations and a poem, called Heart of Lightness, has been created by Lucy J Turner to bring the outdoor space to life as part of the planned opening of Undershed, a new outdoor bar by the Harbourside. The work celebrates people, togetherness and community – perfect themes for Bristol as we come out of this lockdown period.
Lucy is a Bristol-based artist, digital illustrator, activist and creator who makes use of bold, bright colourful designs and shapes. Black women are her main inspiration and are the focus of much of her digital art. She has used art as a way to heal from the trauma of being diagnosed with cancer at 23 and is passionate about sharing this message with others.
Lucy says of Heart of Lightness, “My aim for this piece was to bring Bristol together after such a long period of separation. I wanted passers-by to feel joy, unity and hope for the future when they look at my illustrations. I use art to help heal from trauma and we know all too well the last year has been traumatic for so many of us for so many reasons but especially within the Black community. I wanted to convey the love, joyfulness and strength our communities have managed to uphold. Togetherness was a huge theme in the illustrations as I’ve looked forward to being together with my friends and loved ones for what has felt like an eternity”
Clare Reddington, CEO, Watershed says: “We are so excited to open Undershed and welcome you to our new harbourside space – having a presence downstairs is something we’ve been looking forward to for a while, and now is the perfect time to add outdoors space. We love the joy and the spirit of Lucy’s illustrations – which sum up what Watershed is about – being together. We hope to see you there very soon.”
The new outside bar on the Harbourside, Undershed will open officially on Wed 19 May 2021.
Watershed building is re-opening on Tue 18 May 2021
