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International Scoops Transforming a City Through Neon Bikes Any city dweller is well acquainted with the sight of abandoned bicycles that stay locked to poles for months, rusting away and slowly being stripped of all of their parts. In Toronto, Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas decided to do something about it. The artists paint bikes in cheerful neon colors, often adding planters to their baskets, and place them around the city. At first, the pair ran up against city bureaucracy, Macfarlane says their initial piece of bike art received a ticket for being stored on public property. But since then, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has endorsed what is now called "The Good Bike Project," which has grown to include 36 reclaimed bikes, and the city government has begun donating abandoned bikes to the artists. "Each bike marks a site that embodies the spirit of regeneration and community that inspired us in the first place,"macfarlane says. You can find out more about the project on http://blogthegoodbike.tumblr.com/ Dutch Design Week 2011 From October 22 through October 30, 2011, the city of Eindhoven will be transformed into the capital of design during Dutch Design Week (DDW), the largest design event in the Netherlands. Larger and more penetrating, experimental, surprising and provocative as ever - the tenth edition of Dutch Design Week (DDW) explores design from different angles. In 1998 evolved from De Dag van het Ontwerp (The Day of Design), DDW has meanwhile grown into the largest design event in the Netherlands and enjoys international recognition. Also the upcoming jubilee edition ensures a balanced mix of up-and-coming talent, established designers, renowned bureaus, the manufacturing industry and various knowledge institutes. For nine days, numerous exhibitions and openings, seminars and workshops, product launches and presentations transform Eindhoven into design capital of Europe. BCN DESIGN WEEK Knowledge Innovation Opportunities Progress BCN Design Week 2011 The BCN Design Week 2011 will open its doors from 17 to 21 October to celebrate the sixth edition of an event that is positioned as the main design and business benchmark in Barcelona and one of the leading Design Weeks within the international calendar. Under the slogan Design 2020, businesses from diverse productive or services sectors, professionals and experts from the world of design and innovation will gather once again in a platform for exchanging experiences, to debate and network, which this year will include new activities in order to extend its scope and open the event to the whole city. It is worth of mention that the BCN Design Week 2011 will be the clousure of the Barcelona Design Festival, a major event organised by BCD and FAD, in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council, that seeks to place Barcelona as an international design capital. This initiative includes a programme with more than 60 activities, exhibitions, prizes, debates, congress, ideas market or celebrations among others. Desire 2011: Creativity and Innovation in Design The DESIRE Network announced the Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, to be held in Eindhoven on October 19-21, 2011. The conference theme of the first DESIRE conference, held in Aarhus, Denmark, on August 16-17, 2010, was theories and models of creative processes in design. The conference theme of this second DESIRE conference is theory and practice of creative processes in design. Full papers and workshop proposals are invited on the following topics Methods, tools and techniques for supporting creative design processes Methods, tools and techniques for observing and studying creative design processes Design cases illustrating the role of creativity in design Theoretical insights into creative design processes Visions on teaching & research in creative design Creativity by teams, organizations, and communities Representations supporting creative design This conference is organized In-Cooperation with ACM and the proceedings will be published in the ACM library. Keynote speakers are Marc Hassenzahl and Linda Candy.