Yoppy is young and friendly and lives in a small apartment in the Shinagawa neighborhood of Tokyo. His full name is Yuhsuke Yoshimoto, but at least with visitors who come to stay with him through his listing on Airbnb, he prefers to go by Yoppy. Relative to other major cities in
Data artist Eric Fischer creates gorgeous maps of human movement across cities by plotting the social media trails of the world’s denizens. Among other projects for Mapbox, where he currently works, Fischer recently released “Locals & Tourists,” a searchable world map that visualizes the tweets of city residents versus out-of-owners.
Amsterdam is currently tackling a problem most cities can only dream of having: It has way too many bikes. So massively popular is cycling in the Netherlands’ largest city that the city center has run out of places to put them all. Amsterdam’s daily two-wheeled commuter flood fills downtown with
Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality. Despite numerous achievements in the world’s food systems, approximately 805 million people suffer from chronic hunger and roughly two billion peoples suffer from one or more micronutrient deficiencies
People on the Internet tend to freak out about all things cute and tiny, from babies to animals to babies who are friends with animals. But now, there’s a new addition to this genre: videos of people making tiny edible food creations on YouTube. We’ve just discovered this trend of making
In this striking short film from City Walk, footage of a busy New York street filmed by the Thomas Edison Company in 1901 makes for a stark juxtaposition to the same stretch of road today. Can you spot the difference …READ MORE
Bread has always been at the heart of human history – we’ve been baking it for the best part of 10,000 years. But over the past decade there has been an explosion of people reporting problems with eating it. How could wheat, a staple food that has sustained humanity for
More than 1,300 French dinners will be served at restaurants and embassies across the five continents for a special event on Thursday, March 19. Under the patronage of France’s foreign ministry and Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse, “Goût de France / Good France” is intended as a celebration of French cuisine,
The broad business portfolio of the companies exhibiting at Food Ingredients was disconcerting. Omya, based in Hamburg, described itself as “a leading global chemical distributor and producer of industrial minerals”, supplying markets in food, pet food, oleochemicals, cosmetics, detergents, cleaners, papers, adhesives, construction, plastics and industrial chemicals. At Frankfurt, Omya
Titus Kaphar doesn’t quite turn absences into presences, but rather into something in between. His artwork conjures a space somewhere between here and gone, past and present, traditional and contemporary. Somewhere between a cold crime scene investigator and a surgeon on the fritz, Kaphar turns history, specifically art history, into
The Valletta 2018 Foundation has launched a Call for Papers and Posters from academics and practitioners worldwide addressing Cultural Mapping. These are to be presented at a conference titled ‘Cultural Mapping: Debating Spaces and Places’ to be held in Valletta on the 22nd and 23rd October 2015. The range of
Ferran Adrià, the world’s leading chef, pointed out yesterday that “the union of tourism and gastronomy is the key for an economic development.” Adrià inaugurated at the Real Casino Antiguo and with the mayor of Castellon, Alfonso Bataller, the Innovation Space exhibition, an interactive space to disclose the value of creativity
On 30 January 2015 the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) launched its sixth call for funding requests and its new On-line Application Platform. Since 2010, the IFCD is providing around USD 5.3 million in funding for 78 projects in 48 developing countries, covering a wide range of areas.The deadline
It has came to light that the companies who loom over dairy farmers regularly and unfairly capitalize on them. In an attempt too eradicate this exploitation, local milk farmers in Greece founded a cooperative called “Θες Γάλα, Πιες!” which means “Thes Gala, Pies!” – “Do you want milk, Drink!” in
Fast-forward two years, and Neciunas and his colleagues have created PlaceILive.com—a start-up trying to leverage open data from cities and information from social media to create a holistic, accessible tool that measures the “livability” of any apartment or house in a city. The team recognizes that foraging for relevant information in the
The strategies of some of America’s largest packaged foods companies appear to be running up against their shelf life.companies have had a variety of headwinds to contend with recently, including a strong dollar that has made their products more expensive abroad and the high price of cheese and beef. Those, though, are the kind of
