Beijing Design Week 2016: Dutch designer Casper Notenboom has created a collection of bags that references the way that people in China transport large stacks of goods on their bikes (+ slideshow) (more…)
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Favorable outcomes support the optimistic, could there be truer words?
Yes, actually, there probably are truer words. Truth is, optimism is not about things always working out the way you’d like them to. It is about discovering that you can find happiness again, just by focusing on understanding it. Optimism is often thought to be an innate quality, however, most of us have to work at it.
As human beings we are complex, our emotions can vary from day to day based on our experiences in life. Whether it is finding balance in career/family or prevailing over challenges and adversities, hopeful determination to overcome seems to be one thing the optimistic among us possess. Along with the ability to move on from failure, there is still a drive to future success with the optimistic person. So, stay positive! There are ways to work at an optimistic mindset even if you feel it doesn’t come naturally to you.
Here are 5 podcasts that will help you condition yourself and strategize your way to ultimate optimism:
You Have a Calling – Joseph Wilner is a licensed therapist and life coach. His podcast focuses on prolonging and enhancing your positive emotions and how to do this. With techniques that help you discover gratitude and reframe a difficult experience with discovering what value it may have for you in your life. http://ift.tt/2cP7jF1
Ted Radio Hour – “The Case for Optimism” – This podcast is about how optimism can be the one thing that saves us from even the most destitute of outcomes (climate change, war, famine, etc). Addressing problems in a novel way can help us see that the way out of them is our interconnectedness.
Happiness Matters – “Fostering Optimism and Confidence” – Optimism is learned and within our control. The facts about how optimistic people are more successful in work and relationships and how to foster this in our children.
Beautiful Writer’s podcast – “Writing with Fierce Optimism” a podcast with Leeza Gibbons – What is the difference between optimism and hope? Optimism is a time tested strategy and hope is an inherent ability to get back to what our core values are.
Blogarama – “Overcoming Adversity with Optimism – Helen Keller” A podcast inspired by Helen Keller’s essay on Optimism. It is edited and adapted. Her thoughtful writing is a wonderful essay from a girl who despite being deaf and blind, lived a life of optimism and accomplishment. She was particularly profound and insightful.
We do not need to feel stuck in a spiraling mindset of defeating thoughts, if we trust that we can control these thoughts and free ourselves we can become optimistic of what’s to come and learn from our setbacks. The spirit of our determination can help us visualize obstacles and pain as simply one stop on the way to our best selves. So, optimism is in fact, supported by favorable outcomes, however, that outcome is all in how we perceive it.
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Larissa Gomes is a breast cancer survivor and single mom to her spirited baby boy! Originally from Toronto turned Angeleno, she has worked in roles from writer, actor and producer for well over a decade. In that time, she’s developed concepts, film and television screenplays, short stories, along with freelance articles, blogging and editing work.
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In Japan, the funeral ceremony used to be an event in the entire regional community. But due to shift in lifestyle such as trend of nuclear families and aging of population, the funeral is changing into a small family’s event and become diversified. This ceremony hall is not for busy traditional funerals many people visit, but for relaxed small funerals that are held by only the close relatives. By doing so, the bereaved family can have much final time with the deceased in contrast to conventional funerals.
This funeral hall has a similar structure to a settlement in that it is made up of a cluster of roofs. There are two main guest rooms which the bereaved family stay the night to protect the coffin until the tomorrow funeral. One is the bigger room, which has the living room, dining room and kitchen, and the other is the small Japanese style room. Basically, the funeral ceremony is held at the guest rooms, but we can use the ceremony hall as well. The ceremony hall is also used for occasional Buddhist memorial service. Because the ceremony hall and dining hall are connected through the courtyard, by opening the doors and using them as one space, this space is applicable to large-scale events.
The building is closed completely from the real world by concrete wall and has no openings to the outside. But each room faces onto the private courtyard and has the big glass windows toward it. We can see nothing but sky from the courtyards and spend time without any interruption. The courtyards also serve as daylights and natural ventilation.
The main structure is a box frame type RC construction and the roof structure is a wooden construction. Y shaped beams is put on the top of the concrete walls. These beams are enhanced horizontal stiffness of wooden roof frames and enable big roofs without additional reinforcement. Y shaped beams also function rainwater gutter and facilitate the maintenance of drains. The windows at top of the roofs can be opened or closed by remote control easily and ventilate the room efficiently and give the daylight.
This space offers full of warmth of woods and daylight with home-like feelings. We hope visitors will feel a strong connection to the deceased and make the cherished memory in this hall.
US architect Peter Zellner has announced plans to open a post-graduate architecture school in Los Angeles that won’t charge tuition fees. (more…)
From the architect. With their ambition, Hubba, a co-working space operator, wants to create their new edition of their space differently than their first one. They collaborate with Sansiri, one of the biggest developers in Thailand, to curate their space in Habito, Sansiri’s brand new mall locating in the center of the residential territory they created. Hubba came up with the idea of enlarging the portion of “making” within the ecosystem of “working” to suit the new neighborhood. They call it “Artisan space”, which consists of several handmade facilities such as pottery and wood studio, open kitchen and photography dark room. Screening room for different lectures, workshops and seminars is also added. The intention is to expand their already wide networks, strengthen the concept of being a “hub” and reinforce their “co-working” philosophy.
The design of Hubbato space takes shape from the a funny idea of extending networking lines of Hubba’s original logo and multiply them to occupy/unify space on ground and second floor. We realized that the scheme could be made possible thinking that there are supposed to be quite a number of M&E lines to be installed in the project for functional reason already. Our main operation is to add more into the system and design the organization of these conduits. We color them turquoise to make them visually present (or even emphasize them) throughout the space. We, as designers, usually struggle with M&E elements in our project but, in case of this project, we decide to make it excessive to the degree that it has become an incorporated ornament in architectural space.
Sig Nordal 