Natalie Purschwitz
In the autumn of 2009 clothing designer Natalie Purschwitz embarked on an exceptional challenge, choosing to produce all of the clothing that she would wear for the period of one year. The parameters of Makeshift were laid out in the introduction to her blog. “I will only wear things that I have made myself,” she...
Busby Perkins+Will
Construction of the new VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre is well underway and completion is planned for late summer 2011. Designed by Busby Perkins+Will in conjunction with landscape designer Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the centre was conceived as a building that would be closely integrated with the values, mandate and environmentally ethical choices of VanDusen Botanical...
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
For the period of one year beginning in March 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon decided to restrict their diet to include only foods grown within 100 miles of their residence. With minimal preparation, they began sourcing ingredients grown within this limited radius of their small Vancouver apartment. Finding little in grocery stores, they relied...
Mari Fujita and Matthew Soules
EcoMetropolitanism (EcoMet for short) is a provocative proposal for a new urbanism by Mari Fujita and Matthew Soules, two Vancouver-based architects. EcoMet is a conceptual framework for transforming the modern city into an urban jungle. Originally written as a manifesto for the journal Praxis, Fujita and Soules’s proposition consists of seven points to make Vancouver’s...
