Design and Architecture
Scooter wars, gifting houses, puppets on the move
What we learned about the future of mobility at our “Flipping the Bird” design jam at IndieCade this past weekend. Buy a condo in a Bjarke Ingels-designed tower, gift a house to a slum dweller?
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenWhat we learned about the future of mobility at our “Flipping the Bird” design jam at IndieCade this past weekend. Buy a condo in a Bjarke Ingels-designed tower, gift a house to a slum dweller? A Vancouver group applies the TOMS Shoes one-to-one gifting model -- to houses. And the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been dazzling people with hand-made puppets for 55 years. Will it keep the magic as it leaves its home?
In this episode
3 storiesWhat we learned from “Flipping the Bird”
This past Saturday, DnA and KCRW convened something called a “design jam,” a group brainstorming session. It was at IndieCade, the independent gaming convention, held this year in Santa Monica.
Read the story5 minBuy a condo, gift a house
Can the TOMS Shoes model of buy a pair, gift one to a shoeless person, be applied to houses?
Read the story16 minWill Bob Baker’s puppets find a new home?
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is the oldest children’s theater in Los Angeles, and has been dazzling kids and adults with hand-made puppets since 1963.
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