Architecture students build temporary music festival venue using 160 repurposed apple bins
On Friday, August 2, the Pickathon Music Festival in Happy Valley, Oregon featured a temporary performance venue...
Pop-up shipping container accommodations add a bit of luxury to local festivals
For those who aren't exactly in the mood to sleep in a dusty old tent on the ground while they attend a weekend...
Inhabitat Interview with Beth Cosmos, owner of Billygoats & Raincoats
In 2016, Beth Cosmos was fresh out of design school at the University of South Wales and volunteering at several...
Music festivals and events can set the stage for sustainability
When it comes to entertainment, fans contemplate who they will pay to see in concert, what they will wear to the...
Former concrete factory is reborn as a unique music-inspired high school in Denmark
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and Denmark-based COBE Architects have just finished construction on the Roskilde...
Housing pods made of recycled plastic offer an alternative to festival tent waste
Outdoor festivals and events have been popular across the world since the days of Roman gladiators and for good...
This carbon-neutral festival promotes sustainable fun in Thailand
The fields are alive with art, architecture, food, wellness, talks and workshops, family activities and music at...
Edoardo Tresoldi’s massive wire mesh buildings rise at Coachella
Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi unveiled his largest installation yet at this year’s Coachella, an annual music...
Former concrete factory begins anew as an alternative high school with no curriculum
A former concrete factory west of Copenhagen has taken its first steps towards transformation into an experimental...
This Brooklyn rooftop will soon be a 20,000-sq-ft meadow filled with native wildflowers
The ambitious rooftop garden is the brainchild of Marni Majorelle, owner and founder of Alive Structures green...
Students design concert stage of wooden 2×4’s for Oregon’s Pickathon music festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=426MrJzB9oY&feature=youtu.be The The Quebe Sisters perform Georgia On My Mind...
How ‘diversion architecture’ will make outdoor concert festivals more sustainable
Everyone looks forward to outdoor music festivals, but most large scale gatherings contribute a staggering amount...
The nation’s first large-scale light festival casts a magical glow across Baltimore
While the timing may seem inopportune—the infamous Baltimore riots occurred nearly one year prior—organizers...
KarTent: 100% recyclable cardboard tents could solve the waste problem at music festivals
While our ideal festivalgoer reuse their tents, the designers behind KarTent recognize that some people may only...
2016 Pickathon Music Festival lineup announced – buy your tickets today!
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Pop-up hotel rooms can colonize abandoned spaces for a few nights at time
https://youtu.be/57hWYmG0b6o Polkamp got the idea from a trip she took to Slovenia. "There I slept in a hotel...
Brilliant DiscoDisco LED sculpture comes alive to the sound of music
http://vimeo.com/121875121 We recently spotted DiscoDisco at Designjunction, a trade show for cutting-edge contemporary...
Temporary Urban Farm pops up at Oslo’s Øya music festival
Multidisciplinary design studio Growlab Oslo created a four-day urban farm for Oslo’s Øya music festival, an...
Geometric wood forest pops up at one of Europe’s biggest music festivals
Part art and part outdoor furniture, the multi-functional TREEDOM served as a public meeting point and gathering...
Music festival-ready SPECK mobile kiosk is 100% powered by the sun
The owners custom-built the 384-square-foot solar-powered vending vehicle from the ground up in 2014. Set atop...
VIDEO: LiveStream from this weekend’s Pickathon, the world’s most sustainable music festival
Outdoor concerts and music festivals are notorious for producing insane amounts of waste. From single use cups...
World’s largest public sauna unveiled in the Arctic Circle
Created to celebrate an ‘Arctic state of mind,’ the SALT festival is a year-long event that features indigenous...
Sydney’s mind-blowing ‘Light Origami’ is a crystal cavern filled with mirrors
Light Origami was part of this year's bustling Vivid Sydney, an 18-day light and music festival within the beautiful...
Portland architecture students build incredible outdoor stage from 520 recycled pallets
How do you design an outdoor music festival which leaves no trace? That was the goal of Pickathon founder Zale Schoenborn...
Boom Boom art installation transforms a forest into an interactive soundscape in the Netherlands
Studio Toer turned visitors to the Into The Great Wide Open music festival into literal treehuggers with their...
6 big-name musicians and bands who are helping to protect the planet
Musicians have sung about environmental stewardship and preservation forever. Think about Woodstock back in the...
Powerful Street Art Speaks for the Animals at Rock Werchter Music Festival
Some of the animals imprisoned on the side of containers include an antelope, elephant, giraffe, bear, and rhino....
Artist Weaves Together Massive Basket-like Bamboo Tunnel for Australian Music Festival
Located north of Brisbane, the Woodford Folk Festival is an annual music festival that celebrates a wide variety...
Josh Haywood Designs Stunning Lasercut Plywood Pavilion for Burning Man Festival
Every year, 70,000 people gather in the Nevada desert for the Burning Man Festival, a ten-day event where participants...
Tiny Papay Fire Shelter Inspired by Nomadic Tents Pops up in the Orkney Islands
The shelter was used during the Papay Gyro Nights 2014 festival, which celebratesvideo art, sound art, experimental...
