Sweden.
An electric ferry changes a route, wooden modules change a wind tower, and a tiny replacement slider can save a jacket. Reuse and multisensory music show an equally inventive attention to everyday experience.
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A different way to move a city.
Stockholm tested an electric ferry that lifts its hull out of the water. The bigger idea is a different route through the city.
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A room for you. Nesting space for birds.
A hotel room in the trees is wrapped in birdhouses, making space for other inhabitants part of what guests come to see.
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Reuse with a proper shopfront.
In Eskilstuna, ReTuna links a recycling centre to shops that repair, adapt and sell donated goods. Collection and retail share one address.
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A tiny repair with a much bigger effect.
A broken zipper slider can be replaced without stitching in a whole new zipper.
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A room with more ways into music.
In Sound Forest, music is not confined to the ears. Visitors touch illuminated strings and encounter sound through light, vibration and movement. The room makes musical participation possible through several senses, without first asking everyone to master the same instrument or way of listening.
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A wind tower made of wooden modules.
A wind-turbine tower arrives in curved wooden sections instead of increasingly wide steel cylinders.
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Change the stream before asking for less water.
A small tap attachment turns a stream into fine droplets. Twist the handle when the task needs a stronger spray.
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Let an old camera meet a new sensor.
A film camera made decades ago can take a 100-megapixel digital photograph. Hasselblad puts the new sensor where the removable film magazine used to sit.
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Let the room’s light power a small device.
A small device can harvest the light already falling on it indoors, reducing the battery changes it would otherwise need.
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