Below follows some monetary proof why authenticity and storytelling matters and makes a difference. They give soul to otherwise ‘dead’ products. The products below were sold at the Bukowskis auction of properties of the late Swedish director Ingemar Bergman held a couple of month ago.

Bedside table with sketches and notes from mr Bergman’s dreams. Price when new probably around SEK 1000 (EUR 100). Price at the auction SEK 340.000 (approx. EUR 30.000).

Chess pieces which were used in the movie The Seventh Seal in the famous scene were the Knight and the Death plays a monumental game of chess by the ocean. Sold at the Bergman auction for SEK 1.000.000 (approx. EUR 90.000).

The BoostTalk on Friday 12 February during DesignBoost Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm was sold out in thirty minutes.

Designboost is now happy to announce that they will stream all lectures, panels and seminar online on Friday 12th between 9.45am and 5.15pm. You can listen to personalities like Karim Rashid, Ross Lovegrove, Ilse Crawford, Stephen Burks, Ineke Hans, Richard Hutten, Katrin Olina, Satyendra Pakale, Monica Förster, Henrik Otto, Bjarke Ingels, James Irvine, Gert Wingårdh, Ilkka Suppanen, Thomas Sandell and Jens Fager.

Simply go to http://www.designboost.se and you will be re-directed to the DesignBoost at Arkitekturmuseet BoostChat “Design for Life”.

If you would like to comment and discuss the BoostChat via Twitter use #designboost.

Please find the complete program below:

Official programme for BoostTalk during DesignBoost at Arkitekturmuseet Friday February 12.

10.00 WELCOME

Inaugural speech by David Carlson and Peer Eriksson from Designboost.

10.15 SESSION ONE

Jens Fager
Richard Hutten
Satyendra Pakhale

2 minute leg stretch

Ilse Crawford
Ross Lovegrove

12.00 LUNCH BREAK

13.00 OFFICIAL OPENING OF BOOSTSHOW (exhibition) ”Design for Life”. Inaugural speech speech by museum director Lena Rahoult.

13.30 SESSION TWO

Stephen Burks
Bjarke Ingels
Karim Rashid

2 minute leg stretch

14.40 SEMINAR ”Space for Life” with Ineke Hans, Karim Rashid, James Irvine, Henrik Otto and Ross Lovegrove. Moderators: David Carlson and Peer Eriksson.

15.40 ENERGIZING BREAK

16.00 PANEL DISCUSSION ”Design for Life” with Katrin Olina, Ilkka Suppanen, Gert Wingårdh, Monica Förster and Thomas Sandell. Moderators: David Carlson and Peer Eriksson.

16.50 WIND-UP: David Carlson and Peer Eriksson

17.00 THE END

As reported earlier DesignBoost will take place at Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm February 11-12. The overall theme is “Design for Life”. As earlier years Designboost has invited speakers from all over the world which represent the true frontline within design.

Today Designboost reveals four new speakers for the BoostTalk (lectures) on February 12th.

Karim Rashid – one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 35 countries…

Ilse Crawford – a creative director and designer who crosses the worlds of brand creation, interiors and design.

Satyendra Pakhale – A cultural nomad born in India and now working from Amsterdam.

Monica Förster - One of the leading young designers from Sweden.

Last week Designboost revealed the name of the first nine speakers: Stephen Burks, Ineke Hans, Katrin Olina, Ilkka Suppanen, James Irvine, Richard Hutten, Bjarke Ingels, Gert Wingårdh and Thomas Sandell.

The Swedish flooring company Bolon presents the collection Botanic – a new flooring and architectural garden, a revolutionary breakthrough with environmental care. Botanic reflects nature’s variety of organic architecture and wealth of detail – a garden with a natural brilliantly coloured product flora to discover and wonder at. You can check it out both at the coming Maison et Objet and Stockholm Furniture Fair.

The theme of this autumn’s DesignBoost in Malmö was Design for Life. Now the question is once again being posed, how to make design economical, ecological and fair when DesignBoost collaborates with Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm.

At this DesignBoost people of worldwide reputation such as Stephen Burkes, Ineke Hans, Katrin Olina, Ilkka Suppanen, James Irvine, Richard Hutten, Bjarke Ingels, Gert Wingårdh and Thomas Sandell will participate. Additional participants will be announced.

Design for Life is about how we shall shape our way of life. How we plan, produce, deliver and consume everything from cities, transportation and infrastructure as well as food, entertainment, products and brands. Over the years design unfortunately has developed more and more into an exceedingly contributing source of pollution and over consumption. Therefore some of the biggest names in the world of design will once again meet, to show how design and architecture may be used to create better conditions for people as well as for the environment.

One of the speakers is Stephen Burks, known among other things for his border breaking collaborations with artisans in South Africa and Peru.

We need to redefine design and focus on people’s needs, rather than just surface. When design is put in a humanistic perspective one understands the tremendous ability it has to make change happen, socially as well as economically and ecologically. With knowledge of design, we can solve and improve everyday life of people both in Sweden and globally, says Peer Eriksson.

DesignBoost at Arkitekturmuseeum in Stockholm will take place on the 11-12th of February with around seventy especially invited participants. During two days BoostChats (workshops) and BoostTalks (lectures) on the theme Design for Life will be held. BoostChat on the 11th is exclusively open to those especially invited guests while the talks on the 12th will be open to the public.

As a part of this a BoostShow (exhibition) with examples of holistic sustainable design will be open until the 7th of March.

DesignBoost invites the most pioneering thinkers. Stephen Burks is established as one of the worlds greatest designers but other brilliant talents will also attend, such as Bjarke Ingels, architect and maker of Denmark’s pavilion on the world exhibition in Shanghai later this year, David Carlson tells us. He, along with Peer Eriksson is the initiative behind DesignBoost.

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Studio Power / Tim Power Architects was awarded Third-Prize in the International Design Competition ‘Housing Sociale’ in Via Cenni, Milano, Italy.

The three winning projects were chosen by an international jury, composed of  11 experts in Social Housing from 5 european countries. The affluence of participants was from over 1100 enlisted studios, with 140 registered projects participating in the competition.

The competition was aimed at finding an efficient and sustainable solution for 9000 Sq.mts of Housing and Community services including Apartments for 110 families, Infrastructure, commercial and social areas, playgrounds and urban farms.

Located north-west of the city Center in Milan, the project site will be developed by Polaris Investment Italia on behalf of the ethical real estate Fund “Abitare Sociale 1” in collaboration with the Fondazione Cariplo.

‘Our proposal, based on a ‘new sustainability’ prescribes that in order to project and nurture the environment, we must look beyond engineering: instead, a ‘new sustainability’ proposes to mix urban density and social variety with natural and physical phenomenon.  Landscapes, weather patterns and the metropolis combine to create living environments . This project is as much a landscape as it is a building.  Our proposal is a significant intervention deliberately emphasizing its great mass, as if it were as much part of the natural environment as it is of the urban environment.  It is in fact an eco-system which focuses as much on social interaction, the environment and nature as it does on architecture and the urban environment. Its insertion in the city balances the multivalent needs of its inhabitants with the existing urban fabric of Milan.’  TIm Power - Founding Partner, Studio Power

The project emphasizes the horizontal morphology of the city of Milan. The housing units are oriented towards the south, to maintain views and natural light, and are placed on a vertical expanse like a precipice which rises above the alpine pastures below. The units themselves have ‘oversized’ semi-collective terraces. Crossing the grey facade are tree lined paths, connecting  the sloping grasslands and their collective functions below to the peaked green roof above.

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100 Places to Remember Before they Disappear features 100 photographs from one hundred different places around the world in risk of disappearing or seriously threatened by climate change.

The pictures are taken by some of the world’s best photographers and all the places are based on reports from UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

On their website you can see the photographs and find further information and news about climate change and the project.

“100 Places to Remember…” is also an outdoor exhibition that among other places was exhibited in Copenhagen during the COP 15 climate meeting.

The new issue of unique polish magazine FUTU is presented by an eye-catching video. As an alternative way of design magazine presentation you can watch page by page and listen to the music. It’s a begining of a series – every new issue of FUTU will be complemented by a supporting video.

FUTU brings new look to design, photography, fashion and luxury by combining most advanced publishing techniques with newest trends in graphic design and typography. FUTU8 SUSTAINABILITY was creating in a cooperation with Frost design studio from Sydney. Its all focused on responsibility, ecology, thinking about the future for the next generations. FUTU is a phenomena on a magazine market – every issue is designed by a different, best studios all around the world. /Studio8 Design from London, Albert Folch from Barcelona/Frost Design Australia.

There are some interesting writers as well… In this new issue of FUTU I have as editor-in-chief of David Report, on six pages, delivered a checklist for sustainability!

LOTS Design (Gothenburg), Koucky & Partners (Gothenburg) and Green Idea Factory (Berlin) teamed up to design an innovative bike sharing system for the City of Copenhagen. The team’s entry, called OPENbike, was yesterday awarded a first price at the city’s international design competition with 127 entries from 5 continents.

The City of Copenhagen, one of the world leading cycling cities, aims at establishing a new bike share system and has therefore initiated an open international design competition. The winning entry, called OPENbike, puts the user in the centre and proposes a system that is easy to use, flexible and fully scalable. The design goal has been to create a system that seamlessly integrates with public transport and becomes a natural part of Copenhagen’s existing bicycle culture. The system proposes a smart card system and positioning solutions integrated in each bicycle to create a fully floating bike share system. OPENbike does therefore not need special stands and bicycles can easily be repositioned and adapted to the cities changing needs.

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