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Ikea’s virtual rewilding experience for homebodies

Ikea is running a series of masterclasses, live talks and interactive experiences as part of Dutch Design Week, through a concept dubbed the Virtua...

Health : Wellness : Sustainability

Markets

Off-price Retail Strategies

To counteract the surplus stock resulting from Covid-19 closures and slower spending, brands are innovating with new off-price retail strategies th...

Retail : Pricing : Luxury

Micro Trends

Low-impact Interfaces

To cut the carbon emissions of our online consumption, designers are exploring how to simplify UX and UI design to be greener and more energy-effic...

Technology : Sustainability : Design

Micro Trends

Moral Commerce

In the wake of Black Lives Matter, consumers are seeking brand allies and making shopping decisions informed by their socio-political values.

Retail : Finance : Sustainability

News

Christopher Raeburn’s new collection is entirely circular

The designer is not creating any new garments for London Fashion Week’s digital event.

Fashion : Retail : London Fashion Week

Markets

Makers Market

As craft culture and the hobby renaissance build momentum, retail opportunities abound for a wave of consumer businesses founded by makers.

DIY : Retail : Craft

Macro Trends

Post-purpose Brands

Pushing back against purpose-washing and jumping on the bandwagon, brands will embrace imperfection and focus on betterment. With more intuitive te...

Retail : Branding : Purpose

Macro Trends

Pleasure Revolution

With every second of our free time colonised by the cult of busyness, future consumers will turn away from a life of relentless productivity and sh...

Leisure : Workplace : Wellness

Macro Trends

Enlightened States

The experience economy is pivoting towards personal transformation as the public imagination looks inwards, favouring self-discovery over shared sp...

Experience : Wellness : Leisure

Markets

Death Positivity Market

Dying is driving new wellness conversations as brands work to transform end-of-life planning through more progressive and positive funer...

Wellness : Society : Security

Viewpoints

Immersive VR journalism

Designers Jim Brady and Ward Goes on how virtual reality journalism will enable the public to experience and question how emphatic the news really is.

Technology : Media : Alternative News

Viewpoints

The dawn of the emo-algorithm

Neuroscientist-turned-designer Vera van der Burg attempts to eradicate AI bias by training machines to prioritise human emotions over our data sets.

Artificial Intelligence : Technology : Design

Big Ideas

Five key themes from Web Summit 2019

Web Summit shifted its focus to people and the planet, and the ways in which technology can be a force for good at a time when citizens are warier ...

Technology : Web Summit : Web Summit 2019

Big Ideas

Diets for an evolving planet

The Eatelier founder Katinka Versendaal on creating speculative gastronomy to translate complex research into sensorial food experiences.

Culinary Technology : Food & Drink : Climate Change

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: Exowombs and brain stimulators

VPRO speculates on how our lives might radically change in 2039.

Design : Speculation : Media

Big Ideas

Imperceptible realities at Dutch Design Week 2019

Meet the designers unravelling the hidden side of our technological systems, questioning territory ownership and daring to lay bare the amount of j...

Dutch Design Week : Media : Technology

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: A future of brand-sponsored food

In 2040, grocery shoppers might be presented a choice: purchase products with advertising from commercial brands or pay more for stripped-back pack...

Design : Food : Advertising

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: Augmenting museum tours with emojis

An augmented museum tour is layering emojis over historical objects to expose our contradictory methods of communication.

Design : Technology : Culture

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: an algorithm that caters for your health

Eatelier adopts an analogue algorithm to give a taste of the future.

Technology : Health : Food

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: Philips Design envisages human hibernation

Philips Design imagines what healthcare could look like in 2050.

Consciousness : Sustainability : Design

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: Shape-shifting materials

New materials offer a glimpse of a transformative future.

Design : Material : Technology

News

Dutch Design Week 2019: An algorithm that gives objects meaning

Eindhoven – The project explores how we can train machine-learning algorithms to become more emotional.

Design : Technology : Culture

Macro Trends

Bio-positive Beauty

Short, traceable supply chains and condensed routines are in high demand as beauty moves from zero to positive impact.

Beauty : Sustainability : Science

Macro Trends

Resilience Culture

We have been living in an age of self-censorship, hyper-safe spaces and social comfort zones. But as global anxieties abound, a countermovement of ...

Wellness : Health : Travel

Macro Trends

Programmable Realities

The rise of reactive new materials and technologies means that future physical consumer touchpoints will no longer be set in stone… or any other so...

Media : Futuretainment : Technology

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