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I'M BACK!

Sorry for all my loyal readers out there for keep checking my blog and always noticing the same old thing.

A LOT HAS CHANGED!

1. Don't know if I mentioned before but I'm ENGAGED!!!! tam tam taaa daaamm!

2. Finally finished UNIVERSITY with an amazing project that I will talk about it later on (it's an awesome electric bicycle made out of recycled materials)

3.My graduation exhibition was a SUCCESS!

4.My project is at the Design Biannale in Korea thanks to LINES LAB

5.Learning great things at my new job as Design Assistant at LINES LAB doing awesome projects related to fashion and product design

So here are some images in Korea taken by the organizers of 'MIRAGE'.

LINES LAB were invited to be part by curating a exhibition under the team : CITIES COMMUNITY

Mirage is by definition an optical phenomenon and the origin of the word comes from the latin mirare, meaning “to look at, to wonder at”.
Macau is a city of constant change and frantic development, no landscape is the same for too long and as designers we wonder about its future.
Designers in Macau are working to answer to theirs city communities expectations and “wonders”, through Design. As the discipline that foresees the development of multidisciplinary systems and methods by blending processes and creating new networks aiming for innovation, productivity and sustainability.
In this exhibition the group of professionals, institutions and events represented are participating in a new way of dealing with the creative industries, in a local dimension but also designing “NEW MIRAGES” for a new era of Asian creative development.

Participants
San Lee + Nuno Soares + MO Design + Cindy Ng + João Ó + Manuel CS + Lines Lab + USJ Design Course (CINTIA LEITE) & +853 Cultural Association/This Is My City

Later on I'll be posting more about my beautiful electric bike made of bamboo and recycled materials.

Also would like to thank everyone that help me giving me heaaaps of support and strength to keep going.

Amore, gracias meu anjo xxx

For more info about Gwangju Design Biennale 

Also If you get interested in checking up my work : Cintia Milk Portfolio

P.s Made a commitment with myself that I will be posting at least 3 times a week! So keep checking!

beijooos Tchhau x

!! what kind of future you want ? ?

URBAN MOBILITY NOW AND THE FUTURE

Living in a place such as Macau for 20 years I could see a lot of differences. More land, new structures, less green spaces, more buildings, more cars, more motorbikes, more people.
On the bright side, streets got cleaner, traffic were some how more organizes, laws were applied and are followed more precisely.

What happened in Macau, I believe it has happen to the whole world.
We are growing up in a world that people are ambitious to have more, in greater quantities and careless about others but themselves.

People are busy all the time. Busy to care, busy to stop, busy to appreciate and look around. Like everyone says and knows, ‘time is money’. The question is, how far and how much of a follower a person wants to be of this saying?!

I believe that if the society doesn't start caring about simple moments in life and appreciate more one another, the world will keep going down…

Therefore in my future perspective, I can talk about the future with a contradicted position towards what the world tend to be in case change doesn't occur.

1-    A busier future
2-    A better future 

For n.1: A busier future

I see people talking less to each other, building an individual society- people commuting on individual vehicles that are already designed ‘for the future’.
By consequence, new infrastructures are going to be built. Holes will be drilled to construct tunnels in order for the cars to commute. People will have a smaller horizon view, due to all the bridges built for people to cross from one side to the street to another.
And if they get an opportunity to ‘cross the street’ and I mean, by walking, I guess that will be a privilege. Designers are developing vehicles that ‘saves people time from walking’ to transport them from their domiciles to the public transportation.
Men are getting smarter with all the education provided until today, but the problem is with what goal will they show to the world what they know?
Men kind with all his knowledge will find a way to his ambitions.
But what will be his ambitious about?!

With up to 80 percent of the world’s humans projected to live in cities within a few decades, their mobility needs will rank high for automakers. Academics and theorists have long predicted that new modes of urban transport would emerge to meet those needs.
 

Here is an example, called PUMMA (Personal Urban Mobility), combining electric drive with both vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and autonomous driving and parking.

 

Result? Well, Pixar movies already predicted in an animated motion movie, Wall-E, what I believe, a possible future:
Human beings are permanently strapped into car-chairs, and plugged into computer messages. In the film’s futuristic world, people have ceased using, or being able to use, their legs for mobility.

 

For n.2: ‘A better future’

This I believe is if the world truly starts paying attention to what is happening in the world. How Mother Nature is responding to everyone’s behaviors.
Of course, buildings and infrastructures are still going to rise from the ground, holes will probably be done in consequence for a better commuting system for the new population predicted.
But we can make it better. Sustainable ideas can be done and used in everyday’s life.

I want to believe in a future that people will need to share their life style, their ambitions and their behaviors.
A future that once a person does something, he or she is aware that a simple action will affect A or B. And I am not only talking about ‘greener actions’, but also society care for example, to support fair trade.
Awareness and care is all what I believe the world needs to focus on.

As a designer, I don’t want to do things to be rich, or famous. I want to do things that I know it will help someone, somewhere.
If I get the blessing of profiting from that, that is a bonus!!
Imagine if at least 50% of the world could think like that…

Tomorrow I'll post some of my ideas, something that I will focus on for this vehicle design project ;)

Beijinhos xxx

tchau