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Your Ideas Could Shape Future Cities

The BMW Group Idea Contest: Submit your creative solutions for mobility in future cities and win cool gadgets. more

Trend Report Vol. VIII- December 2009

What is digital graffiti? How can people live inside a shipping crate? Is it possible to play the guitar sideways? Why does everyone love owls all of a sudden? All your questions answered in Trend Report 8. more

Portfolio of the Week: Vektor Junkies

Torsten Posselt takes the idea of invention and runs with it, creating a whole gang of tech critters and devices that will certainly make your life more interesting. Torsten's inventions are sometimes mischievous, and always inventive...read on for our interview with this designer and computer craftsman who really knows the meaning of creative use of space. more

Portfolio of the Week: El Bocho

If you live in Berlin or have been there recently, you've probably seen the colorful, cheeky, and sardonic work of El Bocho decorating city walls, bridges, and traffic lights. While some of El Bocho's work depicts graceful, mosaic female figures, he is just as likely to mock popular views about Berlin with talking surveillance cameras and other cartoon-like creatures. He's just as successful in a gallery setting as he is out on the street, and now he's our latest Portfolio of the Week. more

Obama and MINI Space architects collaborate - 3 hour renovation transforms DC homeless shelter

Sometimes just a little creativity in a space goes a long way.
This Monday our MINI Rooftop architects HWKN discovered that with some re-imagination and creative use of space (and some help from a certain man) they could make a change forever in the lives of the center. Read on for the full story. more

#1 - Moving Windmills

Creative uses of space can be not only artistic but also find new ways to harness natural resources. In late 2006, a Malawian newspaper first wrote about a remarkable young man from a remote rural village north of the capital city. We thought it was an amazing story and an impressive creative use of space! more

Giant interactive Advent Calendar

While some towns just use Christmas lights and a tree to signal the festive season, other artists are electrifying their cities in a different way altogether. This year, Federation Square in Melbourne has a giant interactive advents calendar on its outdoor screen making it a public christmas event. more

8 for 2008 - The Best of the Biennale Architecture in Venice

After the Architecture Biennale this year, I came away with the thought - can architecture actually be exhibited? It's a good question and perhaps best answered by looking at the transformations of the national pavilions of 2008. more

MINIInterantional: Copenhagen City Video

Of course you don't need a bike. But if you visit Copenhagen, the northern capital of design, bring some time with you and go with the flow. There's much to see... more

Portfolio of the week: Mickeyns

It's always a pleasant surprise to hang around on MINI Space and find fresh and inspiring talents. Miroslav Kostic is one of those. We met the young Serbian designer for our portfolio of the week series, and talked about comics, Serbian street art and extra-terrestrial experience... more

Prototyping the future: Interview with Hani Rashid

Hani Rashid of Asymptote architects speaks about his own history of the Biennale. more

First Video from the Roof!

Breaking news is that we just received our first video report sent to us straight from the MINI Rooftop NYC. Designer Matt Hollwich talks exclusively about how an unused space was transformed into THE place to be this summer. more

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