"Future Sustainable Transport" Kids Workshop, Canary Wharf, June 2009

The Puff & Flock team led a workshop in Canary Wharf, with Canary Wharf Arts & Events.
Children and families were invited to know more about the history of the docklands, in order to be part of a craft session involving imagination, inspiration and talent to design the sustainable transport solution of tomorrow.






















Thank you to all the unique inventors who came down to design incredible solutions for the transportation of tomorrow. You were all brilliant and we are proud to present some prototypes today on our blog. A diverse range of rockets will apparently invade the place in 2050, so will the "Catertrain" (caterpillar train), the "Flying Car", and other wonders, for you in exclusivity.


The Puff girls : Jenny, Kathy, Elisabeth, Amelie

When our cars become textiles

Textiles are of all the revolutions but we too often forget it. Because they are in the very grain of our lives, we take them for granted, so much so that their presence remains most of the time invisible to our minds. But even architects claim it now: tomorrow will be textiles or would not be. The new concept car by BMW, GINA Light Visionary Model, highly illustrates this societal shift toward a textilisation of our everyday. Traditionnally speaking, nothing seems more distant than textiles and the automotive industry, -at the most, fabrics are used as upholstery within the car interior-. But even the car, one of this fabulous icon of masculinity is looking for textiles: this two-seater concept car by BMW left his metallic skin for a a more flexible, virtually seamless one made of a textile fabric and stretched over a metal wire structure enforced with carbon fiber. This gives the owner the flexibility to change the shape of the car, from within and without, all with the touch of a button. It might take a while for this kind of concept to hit our everyday road but it emphasizes how much the 21st century is about a new textile revolution.

Check the video at http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2008/06/12/bmw-s-shape-shifting-car/?tag=mncol;txt