The Future Laboratory

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Europe

Danish entrepreneurs create co-housing project

Danish entrepreneurs create co-housing project.

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Fashion

eBay pilots new services as recommerce grows

Online marketplace eBay is piloting two physical services that are designed to appeal to local consumers and overcome the inhibitions of non-users.

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Retail

Istanbul Safari

Istanbul’s Betapreneurs are mining the city’s past to create a Revivalist future.

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Europe

Exquisite Corpse

The surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse is back in vogue as designers increasingly use crowdsourcing to make disjointed objects that represent the serendipitous aspect of collaborative creativity.

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Marketing & Branding

Symbiotic Branding

Collaboration used to be optional for brands that want to create buzz or a one-off product range. Now it is a rule not the exception, as brand-jackers, space-squatters and brandalists fast become the new branding norms. We call this new dynamic Symbiotic Branding.

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APAC

Coolectives

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MENA

Objets d’art: Arab Spring is brought to life

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North America

Food Raves and Rodeos

Forget rock and roll music and psychedelic drugs, the latest rebellion of choice comes in the form of stir-fried pork belly and home-made flax crackers. Underground food raves, and a do-it-yourself response to industrial food production, are feeding the DIY movement with moveable feasts in secret locations.

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Food & Drink

Conviviality Culture

People are realising that the most exciting thing they can do is not online, updating their social network page. It is offline, experiencing the unmitigated magic of a live event.

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Danish entrepreneurs create co-housing project