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Olafur Eliasson

Artist

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards. >
Interactions between the body and space with FOS

Danish artist-cum-designer Thomas Poulsen, also known as FOS, plays with the interactions between the human body and the space it occupies. >
The Growroom: Architecture that feeds the city

The Growroom urban farm explores how cities can feed themselves through architecture that produces food locally. >
Sedeo: A stool designed for mindfulness

The collapsable Sedeo stool by Danish studio Fundament Design is crafted by local artisans and has been created to help with meditation and mindfulness. >
Turning famine into feasts: Insects as the livestock of tomorrow

Consider Nordic Food Labs - the science kitchen that makes bugs a more tasty prospect. >
Solving the problem of student housing with floating dormitories

See the unconventional, low-cost student residences recently unveiled in Copenhagen. >
Brain helmet stimulates creative thinking

Plato project explores scientific solution to problem solving. >
The Visionary Kitchen creates dinners from food waste

The Visionary Kitchen, a volunteer organisation, hosts weekly free dinners for up to 10 guests from foods that have reached their sell-by-date. >
$Marbelous Wood "Refraction #1"$

Hypnotic flooring created by new approach to ancient marbling

Snedker Studio’s Marbelous Wood series transforms pine wood into ripple-effect artwork. >
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >
The hidden graphic design behind flags

Stories behind flags from an artist’s point of view. >
New supermarket in Denmark only stocks food past its sell by date

WeFood is reducing food waste in Denmark by selling the food that mainstream supermarkets throw out. >
A Danish art pavilion is in transit to a Kenyan slum where it’ll now be a school

The pavilion designed by SelgasCano for a Danish art museum has been packed up and shipped to Africa’s largest slum, to assume its second life as a school. >
Copenhagen plans to adapt its architecture for flood-resistance

Copenhagen rethinks existing city infrastructure to double as water catchment areas. >
We talk to the elusive Danish artist and "social designer" known as FOS

Copenhagen-based artist FOS, a.k.a. Thomas Poulsen, is responsible for an eclectic mix of projects – from social housing to floating bars. >
FOS

Artist

Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, who works under the alias FOS, creates unusual spaces that rely on human interaction to really come to life. >
The Infinite Happiness

"The Infinite Happiness" is a feature length documentary investigating and experiencing the lives of those who live and work in the "8 House". >
Environmentally friendly gift-wrapping concept, Dono

Copenhagen-based design studio Frensk creates a reusable wrapping paper system that keeps a record of past users. >
New fund will invest 40 million euros in designs that improve life

INDEX Awards and Dansk OTC are establishing a venture capital fund of 40 million euros to invest in life improving designs. >
This app for the visually impaired is centred on human kindness

Be My Eyes is a platform that allows the visually impaired to connect with a willing volunteer. >
Tomorrow’s Meatball explores what we’ll be serving up 20 years from now

A collaborative investigation into the future of food as told by eight weird-looking meatballs. >
IKEA furniture could charge devices using wasted heat

Space 10’s Heat Harvest turns everyday items into charging points for other devices. >
The future of urban farming is flat-packed

With this design, an instructions booklet and a set of flat-pack pieces that can be easily fitted together are all you need to start farming in the city. >
Why Noma, one of the most famous restaurants in the world, will close its doors next year

In this short film, René Redzepi, founder and head chef of Noma, explains why after 12 years he's closing the doors of the best restaurant in the world. >

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