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General Motors Teams up with Students to Design the Future of Car Travel

The automotive makers sponsored a project for the College for Creative Studies in which MFA majors were tasked with creating a branded experience for Chevrolet.

Lillien Waller

How Boomers Will Shape the Future of Our Cities

The principal of CannonDesign predicts that his generation will be active participants in making our urban environments healthier

Peter Ellis

The Floating Gardens of Uppsala

The Swedish city debuted its buoyant pocket park last summer as a way to promote urban farming.

Zachary Edelson

Archive »ARCHITECTURE

The Floating Gardens of Uppsala

The Swedish city debuted its buoyant pocket park last summer as a way to promote urban farming.

Zachary Edelson

Game Changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine

Architectural criticism has long been the domain of a rarefied few. But it needn’t be that way, argue these Paris-based filmmakers, who cast their lens on the unassuming characters who interact daily with some of the world’s most iconic buildings.

Véronique Vienne

Archive »DESIGN

Game Changers 2015: Makiko Minagawa

Handcrafted textiles and technically innovative fabrics often seem worlds apart. This Japanese powerhouse has been opening up exciting possibilities for textile design by combining the two.

Avinash Rajagopal

Game Changers 2015: Liam Casey

Can making less help us innovate more? This supply-chain guru, who has worked with giants like Apple, is forging connections between sustainable manufacturing and emerging entrepreneurs.

Starre Vartan