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We asked five artists and designers how technology is reshaping the future of creativity

Cindy Valdez Cindy Valdez is the co-founder of Migration of Matter, a Berlin-based studio that, by merging the ancient craft...

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Link List #170: Roaming in gardens through the lens of our favorite publications

This collection of articles taps into the cultures and possibilities surrounding gardens. If you want to read more on creativity...

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Link List #169: Exploring the disruptive power of education through the lens of our favorite publications

Education shapes the way we interact with ourselves and with the world around us. Yet, in a moment where working...

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Link List #168: Imagining alternative futures through the lens of our favorite publications

In a present where everything seems unstable, imagining brighter futures inspires us to transform how we live. The links below...

Housing, mobility, and public spaces: The Sooner Now uncovers ideas that will make our cities thrive

The 21st century will be remembered as an urban one: 55 percent of the global population now live in cities....

Amsterdam Architecture

Marc Koehler wants to build cities of the future, one flexible, sustainable community at a time

As an award-winning architect with his own architecture firm, Koehler’s childhood imagined cities have now developed into something far beyond...

Berlin Architecture

Urban utopias born of human needs and speculative vision, The Sooner Now takes a closer look

As a result, the act of “making is an empowering process,” explains Joe Halligan of the London-based art collective Assemble....

London Architecture

Joe Halligan: Changing future cities

As soon as Joe Halligan opens the door to the studio, two of his colleagues head into the communal kitchen...

Munich

How are cities looking towards the future? A discursive dinner with ideas on the menu

For a city to provide something for everybody, it needs to be created and shaped by everybody. How does that...

Moscow Design

Encountering the other mind: How AI will shift our design process, and in turn, our cities

As a professor at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow and a California native, Benjamin is used...

Berlin

How our creative conference, The Sooner Now, looks at the future of living in cities

These two sentences would come to define the day as it unfolded. They nestled in both the fore and backgrounds...

Community

The Zhongshuge Bookstore Realizes the Futuristic Aesthetic of the ‘60s

The bookstore, which opened in April of this year, veers far away from the usual dusty department-store-meets-mundane-cafe aesthetic. Instead, it’s...

Amsterdam Workplaces

Experiments In Spatial Dynamics: RAAAF

RAAAF stands for Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances, which doesn’t really prepare one for what’s revealed behind the doors of Shelter 610. A monstrous...

Berlin

Smart Living

What was once just a science fiction story aimed at children is today a very real theme of economic, scientific...