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It’s a warm lazy Friday afternoon in Berlin. The temperature is high and the mood is dazzling. The weekend is ahead and everybody just wants to go home and change into their party shirts. But on this particular afternoon two weeks ago Berliners had a little surprise on their way home.
In collaboration with smart, the car brand who is well known for its minimal need of parking space, the brass band Moop Mama did a spectacular pop-up concert near Berlin Dom. We had the chance to be there while the band was playing and could dance and jump with the spontaneous crowd of Berliners. Check out the video here.
The idea behind the concert #morespacefor #music is to show how much better the parking space could be used if cars would be smaller. I like the approach and think that this kind of events are part of the dialogue we need to find out in what kind of city we all want to live in.
Below there are some photos from the concert.
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by Claudio | Music, Stories
What happens when a car is designed not by an automobile designer but by a fashion stylist? You will find out this week during Berlin Fashion Week…
It makes a lot of sense. The sophisticated individualists of today expect a certain level of style from every product they surround themselves with. It doesn’t stop at fashion, interior design and consumer electronics. It’s only natural that they desire their cars to match their aesthetics as well. The smart BRABUS tailor made program is the clever answer to this as it gives customers the chance to design the slick city car in the colors and with the features they wish.
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by Frank | Fashion, Products
Those of you who follow me on Instagram might have noticed that I was in Madrid recently visiting friends of mine and maybe you even saw a couple of the shots I took in their beautiful apartment. When I stepped into their new living room I felt like I entered a special kind of wonderland – a grown-up’s playhouse, full of treasures and magical creatures. I was instantly in love with this place. My friends have a very, let’s say, playful taste in interior design and decoration.
Seeing this place made me once again realize how much a living room reflects on the character of a person, their tastes, their sense of humor, their meticulousness (or the opposite of it). We create an urban space around us as an extension of ourselves. It’s almost like a different kind of arrangement of the same things that make up our personalities. We take a big box – a room – and customize it to our own standard and comfort.
My urban living room, the new Facebook photo contest by mobility brand smart, tries to capture exactly that: How do we design and shape the urban space around us, how does our urban living room look like? With their recent collaboration with Danish brand BoConcept smart has already successfully ventured into the field of interior design bringing out a collection of furniture and home accessories that combine the style and expertise of both companies. More about the contest and a few more shots from my new favorite living room after the jump.
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by Frank | Misc.
On Thursday the renowned Danish design furniture label BoConcept celebrated the launch of their design collaboration with smart in their flagship store at Friedrichstraße. For the collaboration they did not only design their own cute little smart car with special materials such as fine leather, felt and wood, they also came out with a range of individualistic, sustainable and high-end design products including furniture and home accessories. I especially fell in love with the wooden clocks that have the same shape as the instruments of the car’s dashboard. Love them! I made some photos at the release reception for Bettery Magazine which you can see over here with some more infos about the collaboration. You can also see a selection of the photos after the jump.
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by Frank | Events, Photos
In cities such as Berlin and Buenos Aires the best way to get around town is by bike. I love biking! Especially in Spring and Summer this is so much better then going by subway (long waits for the train) or car (endless search for a parking space). Here in Berlin most points of interest are so easy to reach by bike, the streets are not so steep and the traffic is relatively safe.
In Buenos Aires it’s almost the same, you only have longer distances, which is one disadvantage of bikes. If you go for more than 20 minutes you might arrive a little sweaty. That’s why I find the idea of an electrical bike incredibly practical. smart has developed such a bike and with their Facebook App I LIKE EBIKE you can get the chance to win their brand new smart ebike. With it you can easily take longer trips, for instance to Teufelsberg, Spreewald or the nearby lakes of Berlin. And in Buenos Aires I would be able to go from San Telmo to Palermo without being completely breathless when I arrive. Find out how to win the bike after the jump along with some impressions of bikes in Berlin and Buenos Aires.
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by Frank | Stories
illustration: Antoine Corbineau
An Urban Utopia is not about crazy skyscrapers and cities below the sea anymore. Nowadays it has become a utopian challenge to create more livable, healthy and sustainable cities. But how can we make this utopia come true? To find out what makes cities better places for us, Barcelona-based publishing house LECOOL released a travel guide for a better city: A smart Guide to Utopia. The book, inspired by automotive company smart, the expert in urban mobility, presents 111 projects from across Europe that have made a positive, sustainable change to life in our cities. The projects range from urban farming to pop-up restaurants to sustainable design. We contributed two pages to this guide would like to give out 3 of these incredible books to our readers. How to win them and more information about the books after the jump.
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by Claudio | Art, City Guide
photos: ichbineinbaum.de
The Prinzessinengärten at Berlin Moritzplatz are an amazing place with a genious and innovative idea behind it. Using mobile vegetable patches, they transformed a 6,000 m² wasteland in the centre of Berlin into an organic urban farm. They also has several beehives and a cafe serving food made from the produce grown in the garden. Alongside its ecological aims, the project intends to offer local residents a new kind of urban space, where they can meet, work and relax together having several events there like concerts, dinners or even a fleamarket. We always liked the project and are now happy to support it. They already won the smart future mind award last year here in Berlin and are now in the run for the smart future minds community award which will support the project in the next year. Vote for them here and support our local heroes. After the jump more pictures of our trip to the Kreuzbörg Flowmarkt taking place at the Prinzessinengärten some weeks ago.
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by Claudio | Kreuzberg, Places
Friday night we crashed the tape.tv party at the Smart Urban Stage to warm-up for a long night of parties. The party had a very unusual dress code, everyone had to wear white overalls which were handed out at the entrance. To make these outfits more fashionable and individual the creative types decorated their overalls with the tape.tv tape in the shape of other outfits. Smart! The party was also soaked in soap bubbles. Some party gimmicks never get old. More bubbles and tape after the jump.
(PS: Please don’t look all too long at the animation of the bubble-eating Dandy above, it will drive you crazy after a while!!)
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by Frank | Party
