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Future Cities: Carlo Ratti

PICNIC STORIES 24 January 2012

The Emergence of Brand Philanthropy: Laurence Parkes

PICNIC STORIES 17 January 2012

How Advertising Will Heal the World and Your Business: Mark Woerde

PICNIC STORIES 12 January 2012

The Urban Pavilion, World Expo Shanghai: Herman Kossmann

PICNIC STORIES 10 January 2012

Urban Art & Urban Transformation: Maik ...

Using urban environments as integral part of artistic expression and experimentation, the festival is considered one of Amsterdam's major catalysts...

PICNIC STORIES 05 January 2012

Heath Bunting shows how you create your own legal identity.

PICNIC STORIES 03 January 2012

Playing The City, Designing Slow Experiences for Urban Environments: Toby Barnes

PICNIC STORIES 15 December 2011

Season greetings!

PICNIC STORIES 15 December 2011

Trust me and I'll Trust You: Amanda Moo...

Let’s challenge the relationship between brands and consumers - particularly Millennials, the 8095ers (born between 1980 and 1995). We’ll...

PICNIC STORIES 13 December 2011

Winner HeadsUP! data visualization comp...

The winner of the first HeadsUP! data visualization competition has just been announced: Richard Vijgen was awarded for his beautiful visualization...

PICNIC STORIES 12 December 2011

Kick off PICNIC Creative Business Club at Corio

PICNIC STORIES 09 December 2011

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Fix it! The Energetic Society as a New Perspective on Governance for a Clean Economy...

PICNIC STORIES 08 December 2011

Open Data for Smart Cities: Harry van Dorenmalen...

With this enormous influx of population, we’ll need to find new ways to manage complexity, to increase efficiency, to reduce expenses and to improve...

PICNIC STORIES 01 December 2011

Emer Beamer, Butterfly Works

Open Data for Innovation and Economic Growth: Bertholt Leefthink

PICNIC STORIES 29 November 2011

Architecting for Mass Colaboration: Peter Corbett

PICNIC STORIES 24 November 2011

Ronald van den Hoff

Beyond the Creative City: Charles Landry

PICNIC STORIES 22 November 2011

Imagine a Building that Grows Food!: Joost Bakker

PICNIC STORIES 17 November 2011

http://t.co/sX1sFgN2 finally able to experience the beautiful work of PICNIC '09 speaker Philip Beesley in real time at #DEAF2012

Posted on Thu May 17

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Today, one billion people live in informal settlements and their numbers are growing as migration to cities is increasing. GetH20 Mtaani is a game based...

PICNIC STORIES 15 November 2011

Games in Informal Settlements: Emer Beamer...

Vodafone Firestarters at PICNIC 2011

PICNIC STORIES 10 November 2011

Beyond Smart Cities: Tim Campbell

PICNIC STORIES 10 November 2011

The Demise of the Creative Class: Victo...

As a perfect match between real-estate opportunism and institutional hunger for public approval, Florida’s ideas helped transform abandoned factories...

PICNIC STORIES 08 November 2011

The Open Data Movement: Who Owns the Pu...

In this report by PICNIC festival media partner 2010LAB.tv, explore the Open Data movement and what hackers and developers can generate from the use...

PICNIC STORIES 04 November 2011

Socializing Retail Space: Gerard Groener

PICNIC STORIES 03 November 2011

The New Economy: Built by People, Power...

I'd put Google, Flickr, Wikipedia, and eBay into this category of companies that leverage individual's excess capacity. Other examples include...

PICNIC STORIES 01 November 2011

Bridging the Digital and Educational Divide in Developing Economies: Jorge Camil...

PICNIC STORIES 27 October 2011

Coleman is the primary investigator of the Pervasive Media/City as Platform research and design lab at MIT, where she is an assistant professor of comparative...

PICNIC STORIES 25 October 2011

PICNIC Innovation Mash Up main hall

The Digital Creative City: Ricardo Alvarez

PICNIC STORIES 25 October 2011

Building the Meta-City: Mark Rolston

PICNIC STORIES 20 October 2011

Ronald van den Hoff

Mobile Scenarios: Benoit Jacob

PICNIC STORIES 18 October 2011

Mapping the Augmented City: Blaise Aguera y Arcas

PICNIC STORIES 13 October 2011

Urban Collaboration and Storytelling: J...

At our core, we are linked together by the stories that we collectively tell. How can we create experiences that can bind us to each other, even as...

PICNIC STORIES 11 October 2011

Attendees and presenters from gaming, advertising, TV, film, science, fashion and education will come together to imagine a future when the virtual...

FESTIVAL NEWS 10 October 2011

Explore the future of immersive technology at b.TWEEN 3D on 21 July...

Holland from Above: Eric van Heeswijk & Jasper Koning

PICNIC STORIES 06 October 2011

Investigate smart technologies for better cities at UrbanTec

FESTIVAL NEWS 05 October 2011

Another City is Possible: Adam Greenfie...

Which cities have successfully capitalized on emergent technology, and which have made the wrong bets? Whose interests are reflected in smart city discourse...

PICNIC STORIES 04 October 2011

There are 17,000 nursing homes in America, and 17,000 reasons to not move into any of them. The dignity of aging needs to be reinstated and we cannot...

PICNIC STORIES 30 September 2011

Green Challenge Award Ceremony: Keynote Lecture by William McDonough

PICNIC STORIES 29 September 2011

One of the primary goals of BMW is to actively participate in a dialogue about the future of urban environments. That made PICNIC Festival 2011, with...

FESTIVAL NEWS 26 September 2011

PICNIC Festival 2011: The numbers

FESTIVAL NEWS 22 September 2011

Art to the People: Victor Hugo Celaya and Ricardo Andrés Celaya ...

The Celaya brothers explore the power of art as a communication tool, an instrument to integrate cities and a vehicle for change. They discuss how disruption...

PICNIC STORIES 22 September 2011

Danielle Puma, Vodafone

Help U.S.: Lawrence Lessig

PICNIC STORIES 21 September 2011

Rioting, Ballet and Elvis's Hips: Ben Hammersley

PICNIC STORIES 21 September 2011

Danielle Puma, Vodafone

PICNIC City hits the road

FESTIVAL NEWS 19 September 2011

PICNIC Festival 2011 highlight videos

FESTIVAL NEWS 19 September 2011

Was fun to be on a panel at #DEAF2012. Loved the stuff of my fellow panellists. Especially LeCube! Carine, let's talk soon!

Posted on Thu May 17

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Thank you PICNIC Instagramers! With well over 300 funny, creative, smart and nostalgic photos tagged #picnic11, the expansion of our publishing...

And the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards go to...

Sexing up data with VPRO

The 2 o'clock boat was honoured with Architect Matthias Hollwich and Frog's Creative Director Mark Rolston. What did they talk about? Matthias...

Björk you probably already know. She is a classically trained musician from Iceland who defines music as "sound + generosity". She had...

Love Life with Biophilia: Scott Snibbe...

PICNIC STORIES 16 September 2011

Putting the fun in fungus!

Offering an escape from PICNIC city, Gijs and his team from Evident took some visitors out on the IJ river, for an interview with three of PICNIC'...

First two speakers of Day 3

It's almost the first thing visitors notice, people not attending PICNIC but who have been on the "pontje" over the IJ notice it... There...

Appsterdam, the Hackathon and an interview with Klaas Speller...

Stamps for Grams!

Marketplace Highlight Day 2: OAT - Shoes that Bloom

What's in your PICNIC City passport?

Photographer's on the loose out, have a look!

Photographers on the loose, have a look...

Congratulations to Luiz Villar who tweeted 'Alfresco dining #picnic11 @ PICNIC festival.' We agree: it looks amazing!

PICNIC STORIES 15 September 2011

15 September 2011

Urbanizing Technology: Saskia Sassen ...

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The forecast for tomorrow predicts some amazing weather too. How many reasons do you need to come back tomorrow? Enjoy the slideshow. For more pictures...

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The diverse world of PICNIC constructio...

FESTIVAL NEWS 15 September 2011

The Best City Never Seen: Lorenzo De Rita

PICNIC STORIES 15 September 2011

During lunchtime the long awaited winner for the Green Challenge organised by Postcode Lottery was announced. The lucky finalist to take home 500.000...

Mudbuilding brings ancient building techniques to PICNIC Festival

FigureRunning encourages you to get creative, go outside and discover new places while running and getting ﬁt. The competition is not about your running...

Let other people run for you at PICNIC Festival 2011 ...

The Marketplace: In the middle of the action

Day 1 at PICNIC Festival 2011

FESTIVAL NEWS 14 September 2011

How to get to the festival

FESTIVAL NEWS 14 September 2011

Introducing PICNIC Stories

FESTIVAL NEWS 12 September 2011

The PICNIC Innovation Mash Up: It was great fun! Thanx for joining. Please check out the event report http://t.co/vmVSBwke #picnic12

Posted on Wed May 16

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The ‘Heart of Borneo’ is a 220,000 square km area of protected rainforest on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, the third largest island...

PICNIC STORIES 11 September 2011

Yoomee launches social conference platform with PICNIC

FESTIVAL NEWS 11 September 2011

Get interviewed about Urban Futures with Shoudio

FESTIVAL NEWS 10 September 2011

With just seven days to go, speakers and attendees from Brazil to Norway will soon be arriving in Amsterdam. They'll get some PICNIC love as soon...

FESTIVAL NEWS 08 September 2011

The Netherlands are progressively cluttered with buildings. All of the remaining open spaces will be filled up when we don’t stop expanding at...

1+1=11

About iamoneworld iamoneworld (I am one world) originated from a dream of artist Ingrid van den Boogaard (the Netherlands). As a creative explorer...

Travelling the World with Solar Power...

Hong Kong — Myriad Opportunities

Vinkega is the village where I grew up in the eighties. It’s the village I left ten years ago to start a new adventure in the city with my childhood...

Emer Beamer, Butterfly Works

frog meets Chroma

Green Challenge: 6 green ideas competing for €500,000 revealed!

FESTIVAL NEWS 04 September 2011

Marja Zonnevylle, Shell

Drumroll, please! 7 Vodafone Mobile Clicks semi-finalists announced

FESTIVAL NEWS 02 September 2011

Urban Escape floating interviews: brought to you by Evident

FESTIVAL NEWS 01 September 2011

Call for entries: Designers & Artists 4...

Last year, sessions for the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (DA4GA) took place at PICNIC Festival, and the impressive results are now on display...

FESTIVAL NEWS 30 August 2011

What does sustainability really mean? Recently, it’s become synonymous with “green”. But it goes far beyond that. Sustainability refers...

FESTIVAL NEWS 29 August 2011

PICNIC Festival sub-theme spotlight: Sustainability...

PICNIC Loves FigureRunning!

FESTIVAL NEWS 23 August 2011

PICNIC Festival sub-theme spotlight: Media

FESTIVAL NEWS 23 August 2011

Meet the 2011 Marketplace participants...

Organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Syntens together with KansenKanon and Mediaguild, The Marketplace is taking place for the 6th time during the...

FESTIVAL NEWS 11 August 2011

Join our team: Volunteer at PICNIC Fest...

Looking for a way to get more involved with PICNIC? How about applying to be a part of our PICNIC Festival 2011 volunteer team! Every year we welcome...

FESTIVAL NEWS 09 August 2011

Green Challenge gets record number of submissions

FESTIVAL NEWS 04 August 2011

Relying on the construction experts In the collaborative spirit of PICNIC, the city will be a joint production with a variety of partners. And when...

FESTIVAL NEWS 29 July 2011

Special offer: Free ticket to Hello Etsy in Berlin

FESTIVAL NEWS 19 July 2011

Virtueel Platform wants to hear about your problems!...

For the fifth time, Virtueel Platform will be hosting the HOT100 sessions at the PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 Sept). HOT100 is a full day of lectures...

FESTIVAL NEWS 01 July 2011

Marja Zonnevylle, Shell

Emphas.is: Show your support for photojournalism

FESTIVAL NEWS 29 June 2011

The PICNIC Poster Project

FESTIVAL NEWS 29 June 2011

P1070967Marja Zonnevylle, Shell

Share your green idea and win!

FESTIVAL NEWS 22 June 2011

Look who's talking at PICNIC 2011

FESTIVAL NEWS 22 June 2011

Who came up with the dumb idea to schedule DEAF and FutureEverything on the same days? Drew, we will join you next year again in Manchester!

Posted on Wed May 16

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Best Scene in Town is a design challenge in which you designers from different disciplines compete to create the ultimate mobile experience. Students...

FESTIVAL NEWS 14 June 2011

'Best Scene in Town' is back at PICNIC Festival!...

Join PICNIC next week at Futur en Seine

FESTIVAL NEWS 14 June 2011

Sign up for The Marketplace by 4 July

FESTIVAL NEWS 09 June 2011

Last chance to submit for Vodafone Mobi...

This year’s panel of impressive local and global judges includes Rudy de Waele, founder of Mobile 2.0 Europe and dotopen; Peter Barry, Vodafone...

FESTIVAL NEWS 08 June 2011

Yay! PICNIC Early Bird Registration is open. Make sure you profit from our spectacular early bird offer and buy a ticket now. This year's PICNIC...

FESTIVAL NEWS 01 June 2011

Out of town visitors

FESTIVAL NEWS 27 May 2011

After five years, PICNIC moves to NDSM wharf and builds a PICNIC City Now in its sixth year, PICNIC reiterated its commitment to creativity and...

FESTIVAL NEWS 26 April 2011

Spotlight on MaxClass: participant in PICNIC '10 Pitch Night and Marketplace

FESTIVAL NEWS 24 March 2011

A chapter a month to reduce violence Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic is a composite video portrait of Chicagoans who are working to reduce...

FESTIVAL NEWS 21 March 2011

Wouter van Waardt, PICNIC