5 Cool Things You Didn’t Know About IKEA’s Danish Innovation Lab
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5 Cool Things You Didn’t Know About IKEA’s Danish Innovation Lab
Saved by Cristina Gomez
Is there something in creating a place for young people to realise their ideas?
Or for people to take on a youthful mindset.
Similar to Eugene’s idea of a thousand small product companies, in the future individuals will be able to create anything they want. We just need the imagination to start.
Toolhouse's 2024 memo outlines their mission to develop a personal product generator that empowers users to create custom, personalized 3D objects through the integration of AI and agile production methods.
toolhouse.buildBut the idea generation, the give-and-take over developing a model—in these aspects of the process, the staff are eager to say, anyone is welcome to participate. It’s an ethics, almost a performance, this simplicity and humility, from builders who are as precise as any master carpenter. The workshop wants the message to be one of accessibility in t
... See more“The art of creating new solutions and possibility begins with knowing how it is we want to live.”
In fact, if I had to identify the secret of IKEA’s appeal, here’s what I’d say: IKEA is a brand that has discovered the cool of unapologetic contradiction. It is stingy; it is indulgent. It says yes; it says no. It strips things down; it sweetens things up. It has stumbled upon a dialectic, and it has somehow figured out how to make that dialectic
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