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Beijing-based studio People's Industrial Design Office conceives a 3D scan booth that combines photographic equipment with tensile skin to form a dynamic transformable structure…

Ruetemple architects, Alexander Kudimov and Daria Butahina design a compact world for a brother-sister duo, with transformable and dynamic recreational areas, while the work areas remain anchored. Check out how simplicity in design thought can transform a space... Check out this room for siblings

Chromed Design Studio once again crafts a synthesis of old and new in the recently completed Ophelia restaurant at The Ashok Hotel in New Delhi. Check out the uber-chic restaurant that transforms from a luxury fine dine by day to a high energy lounge bar by night…

"Cross-disciplinary thinking leads to transformational ideas", opines Shanoo Bhatia, #Design #Strategist and Founder-Director of Eumo. Read what she has to say about the role of communication in relation to the #KyaBola research campaign…

A simple material palette and a dose of thoughtful design transform a basement into a spa and spinning studio. Check it out here and leave us your views…

Eray-Carbajo architecture and design studio create an intriguingly masculine ambience for Adam - the grooming atelier brand in London. Check out how this ordinary barber shop has been transformed into an upscale service haunt and leave us your views...

Takashige Yamashita + Takashige Yamashita Office use a simple design solution - an undulating roof to transform a nondescript cluster of buildings into a happening community space. Check out the story here and leave us your views

Army barracks transform into a plush open-plan home, where warm natural materials and colours find a corresponding analogy in cuboid solid-surface forms and glass surfaces. Check it out here...

"During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months."

An Arab country with neither secret police nor censorship is unprecedented in recent decades. Tunisia is inspiring similar demands in Egypt and Jordan. When skeptics wonder if the Revolutions of 2011 would really change anything essential in the region, they would be wise to keep an eye on these two developments in Tunisia, which, if consolidated, would represent an epochal transformation of culture and politics. Arguably, Tunisians are now freer than Americans. The US government thinks our private emails are actually public. The FBI and NSA routinely read our email and they and other branches of the US government issue security letters in the place of warrants allowing them to tap phones and monitor whom we call, and even to call up our library records and conduct searches of our homes without telling us about it. Millions of telephone records were turned over to George W. Bush by our weaselly telecom companies. Courts allow government agents to sneak onto our property and put GPS tracking devices under our automobiles without so much as a warrant or even probable cause. Mr. Obama thinks this way of proceeding is a dandy idea.

"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."- John F. KennedyThere's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual.The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the narrative that, for the first time ever, Americans will likely end this year with either a woman or a black man headed for the White House. Bloggers are telling stories from the front lines of primaries and caucuses that look like something from the early 60s - people lining up before dawn to vote in Manoa, Hawaii yesterday; a thousand black college students in Prairie View, Texas marching 10 miles to cast their early votes in the face of a county that tried to disenfranchise them. In recent months, we've also been gobstopped by the sheer passion of the insurgent campaigns of both Barack Obama and Ron Paul, both of whom brought millions of new voters into the conversation - and with them, a sharp critique of the status quo and a new energy that's agitating toward deep structural change.There's something implacable, earnest, and righteously angry in the air. And it raises all kinds of questions for burned-out Boomers and jaded Gen Xers who've been ground down to the stump by the mostly losing battles of the past 30 years. Can it be - at long last - that Americans have, simply, had enough? Are we, finally, stepping out to take back our government - and with it, control of our own future? Is this simply a shifting political season - the kind we get every 20 to 30 years - or is there something deeper going on here? Do we dare to raise our hopes that this time, we're going to finally win a few? Just how ready is this country for big, serious, forward-looking change?Recently, I came across a pocket of sociological research that suggested a tantalizing answer to these questions - and also that America may be far more ready for far more change than anyone really believes is possible at this moment. In fac

It's hard to think of another time when there has been such a gulf between intellectuals and activists; between theorists of revolution and its practitioners. Writers who for years have been publishing essays that sound like position papers for vast social movements that do not in fact exist seem seized with confusion or worse, dismissive contempt, now that real ones are everywhere emerging. It's particularly scandalous in the case of what's still, for no particularly good reason, referred to as the 'anti-globalization' movement, one that has in a mere two or three years managed to transform completely the sense of historical possibilities for millions across the planet. This may be the result of sheer ignorance, or of relying on what might be gleaned from such overtly hostile sources as the New York Times; then again, most of what's written even in progressive outlets seems largely to miss the point-or at least, rarely focuses on what participants in the movement really think is most important about it. As an anthropologist and active participant-particularly in the more radical, direct-action end of the movement-I may be able to clear up some common points of misunderstanding; but the news may not be gratefully received. Much of the hesitation, I suspect, lies in the reluctance of those who have long fancied themselves radicals of some sort to come to terms with the fact that they are really liberals: interested in expanding individual freedoms and pursuing social justice, but not in ways that would seriously challenge the existence of reigning institutions like capital or state. And even many of those who would like to see revolutionary change might not feel entirely happy about having to accept that most of the creative energy for radical politics is now coming from anarchism-a tradition that they have hitherto mostly dismissed-and that taking this movement seriously will necessarily also mean a respectful engagement with it. I am writing

The biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don't know how to handle victory. This might seem an odd thing to say because of a lot of us haven't been feeling particularly victorious of late. Most anarchists today feel the global justice movement was kind of a blip: inspiring, certainly, while it lasted, but not a movement that succeeded either in putting down lasting organizational roots or transforming the contours of power in the world. The anti-war movement was even more frustrating, since anarchists and anarchist tactics were largely marginalized. The war will end, of course, but that's just because wars always do. No one is feeling they contributed much to it.

#MMEKExperienceArchitects creates #environments that #transform key life moments and #brand messages into unforgettable experiences seamlessly combining #digital, #physical and #spatial elements. Check out how they once again endorse their already-strong track record in #healthcare with the #PrincessMáximaCentre in #Netherlands…

Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY designs Marquise - a billowing ultra-thin, lightweight aluminum structure that entirely transforms the approach and initial experience of a standard building entrance into a dramatic experience of threshold, and an icon that redefines the public in El Paso, Texas.

@tinker-imagineers design an array of interactive games and a genial environment to make this centre designed especially for the treatment of obese youngsters a go-to place in The Netherlands. Check out the full story here

Celebrating Japanese cuisine and culture in Hotel Roomers, Munich, is a standalone restaurant: Izakaya designed by @concrete-architectural-associates. With silk printed artwork, bespoke furniture and a massive Koi lamp, this area is a real treat! Adapting to its quiet restaurant crowd and then transforming into a cosy bar after hours makes the designers vision quite remarkable.

CannonDesign and its Yazdani Studio designs a transformative TCS building in Kolkata paying homage to the traditional Indian courtyard typology. Check it out here…

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, @i29-interior-architects transform the museum with a sensitive modern intervention that aligns perfectly with the monumental building. Check it out here