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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....

2019—A year in Review

2019—A year in Review Not only a year of international school strikes, endless Brexit delays, K-pop’s rise to international fame,...

Cologne Architecture

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now In terms of ingenious...

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....

Berlin Art

The fantastical futures of studio N O R M A L S and what we can learn from them

Even now, six years into working under the moniker N O R M A L S, the two Frenchmen struggle...

Sheffield Architecture

Victoria Okoye: Cities designed for residents

Over a cup of green tea at The Depot Bakery in Sheffield, the South Yorkshire city where she has been...

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...

Bratislava Design

In the capital of Slovakia, crafting plastics! studio are set on proving bioplastic is ready for mass consumption

Together with her partner and fellow product designer Miroslav Král, they asked the scientist responsible, Pavel Alexy. Alexy and his...

Berlin Art

Tackling gender inequality in the art and design world with a panel discussion that calls for change

Tackling gender inequality in the art and design world with a panel discussion that calls for change As cracks appear...

Hamburg Food

Incubating immigrant talent in Hamburg’s kitchens with Refugee Canteen founder Benjamin Jürgens

Benjamin Jürgens has just bounced away from a ten-minute conversation during which he mistakenly confused a recruitment consultant with our...

Architecture

Gathering local communities for urban futures with The Sooner Now

Cities have never before been so densely populated. In turn, it lies in the hands of individuals to nurture and...

Frankfurt Architecture

Challenging densification in a shifting German metropolis where business must make way for the arts

The risk of developing schizophrenia is three times higher in the city than it is in the country, Mazda Adli...

Hamburg Architecture

Addressing the growing issue of metropolitan space with the need to downsize our architectural preferences

Metropolitan space is limited and there needs to be new solutions for using it differently, more economically and with more...

New York City Architecture

‘Built for Designers - Open for All’ - A/D/O connects avant-garde design to local communities

Extending north toward Queens in a kind of peninsula, it’s a maritime area occupied by the remains of industrial infrastructure...

Düsseldorf

The importance of community and redesigning forms of virtual interaction in this digital age

Thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can experience a feeling of close proximity to people scattered far across the...

Stuttgart Fashion

In Stuttgart, The Sooner Now serves up some food for thought on conscious fashion

For the second dinner of the joint initiative, The Sooner Now, Freunde von Freunden and MINI Germany headed to Stuttgart...

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...

Hamburg Community

Above Platforms Three and Four: Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof launches Track Academy

The Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof is a contemporary art space situated above a railway station—specifically platforms three and four—in Hamburg’s southern...

Berlin

Constructing a future collectively: How Cucula helps refugees establish a new life in Berlin

Back then, asylum seekers were camped out at Oranienplatz protesting their treatment by the EU. A year later, five of...

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...