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Creative think tank, fostering creativity and innovation. More about our projects: beopenfuture.com
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Channel Be Open think tank (@beopenfuture) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 30 377 subscribers, ranking 956 in the Art & Design category and 1 372 in the USA region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 30 377 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 08 October, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -1 512 over the last 30 days and by -37 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 7.16%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 7.18% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 2 103 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 2 109 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 0.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as beopennews, waste, designer, structure, steel.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“Creative think tank, fostering creativity and innovation. More about our projects: beopenfuture.com”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 09 October, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Art & Design category.
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London-based designer Bethan Laura Wood collaborates with Shore Studios on Extra Trimmings, a colorful seating collection that turns ornament into structure. Inspired by the exuberance of 1970s interiors, the lounge chairs, settees, and stools use nautical braided rope and hand-knotted silicone to form ruffles, scallops, and loops across their frames. By making decoration part of the construction itself, the collection brings texture, pattern, and a playful sense of personality into the domestic interior.
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CALL FOR ARTISTS!
ITSLIQUID Group’s Rome International Art Fair 2026 returns for its 19th edition from December 10–20 at ITSLIQUID Art Space – Trastevere, inviting artists, photographers, video makers and performers to explore the relationship between identity, body and space. The open call is structured around two themes: Mixing Identities, which examines the body and consciousness as evolving forms of communication, and Future Landscapes, which explores fluid relationships between identity, cities, mind and space. Selected artists receive exhibition support spanning installation, logistics, promotion, press and opening events, with applications closing October 11, 2026.
To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video art), links to videos/films/performances and pictures via e-mail to info@itsliquid.com
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Brooklyn-based Mexican architect and artist Elsa Ponce reimagines shade as a form of urban care with The Bower, a temporary inflatable installation commissioned by the NYC DOT Art Program for Summer Streets 2026. Inspired by the Mexican expression vete por la sombrita, meaning “walk in the shade,” the project creates a shaded public space for resting, gathering, and drawing beneath a canopy of soft, lilac and pink inflatable forms. Responding to increasingly hot New York summers and unequal access to shade, Ponce transforms a basic element of urban comfort into a participatory piece of climate-responsive public design.
More inflatables on our blog.
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BE OPEN Art is pleased to announce Tomislav Šilipetar as the Artist of the Month for September 2026. A Croatian academic painter based in Zagreb, Šilipetar explores identity, vulnerability, memory, and the complex relationship between the individual and others. Šilipetar graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2014.His psychologically charged paintings invite viewers to reflect on the different selves we reveal, conceal, and carry within us.
Each month, BE OPEN Art presents 20 artists for public voting, with monthly winners advancing to compete for the Artist of the Year 2026 title. The overall winner will receive a €1,000 prize and promotional support from BE OPEN Art.
We warmly congratulate Tomislav Šilipetar on this recognition and thank him for his compelling contribution to the BE OPEN Art community.
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YouTuber and maker BeBeau Builds turns the idea of a “rock guitar” into reality by transforming a donor acoustic guitar with an actual slate body. Using the original neck and fretboard, BeBeau constructed an internal 3D-printed armature and assembled 18 individually cut slate pieces into the instrument’s body. Weighing nearly 49 pounds, the finished guitar still produces a surprisingly familiar acoustic sound, demonstrating how an unconventional material can be pushed into functional instrument-making.
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Muvaqqit 60 by Istanbul-based Omora Lusso turns timekeeping into a once-a-minute performance. Inspired by the tradition of Ottoman timekeepers, the kinetic artwork combines curved scales, shifting light and a mirror-polished bird that rises into view to mark the time. Rather than constantly displaying information, it deliberately creates anticipation, making the act of checking the time feel more like a ritual than a reflex.
More extraordinary clocks on our blog.
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Invisible Studio and Pearce+ have created a hemispherical woodworking shelter at Westonbirt Arboretum using locally felled green oak and a lightweight aluminium shingle roof. Six tree-trunk supports carry a triangular timber frame, while 85 hand-hewn poles support the overlapping canopy, combining raw, site-responsive construction with digital fabrication. Designed to echo the delicacy of the surrounding woodland, the pavilion also explores how complex timber structures can be built affordably, sustainably, and with architects actively adapting to conditions on site.
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Mexico-based design consultancy NOS introduces the Paper Pulp Delivery Briefcase, a reusable and compostable alternative to single-use food delivery packaging. Made from lightweight, single-material paper pulp, its thermoformed clamshell structure accommodates different cup sizes and holds up to six drinks, with an integrated tray keeping beverages secure in transit. Stackable and easy to manufacture, the briefcase also features ergonomic handles, spaces for order details and seals, and customizable material and color options for different delivery systems.
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BE OPEN Art has announced Taiwan-born artist Lian Jhu as the first Regional Artist of the Month (September) in the East Asia stage of its 2026 global art competition celebrating outstanding emerging artists from Japan, North and South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Macau, Mongolia, and Taiwan.
Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Lian Jhu is an artist whose practice explores human existence through introspection, emotional experience, and the language of the painted figure.
Jhu will now join the selection of artists competing for the Regional Winner title of East Asia. The selected Regional Winner will receive a €500 cash prize and increased international visibility through the BE OPEN Art platform.
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Michael Jantzen’s unbuilt Staircase House turns everyday movement into the defining feature of a compact 1,000-square-foot home. Wrapping 180 wooden steps around a simple cube, the concept uses piezoelectric tread plates to convert footsteps into small amounts of stored electricity. Rooftop and ground-level decks, glass openings, a central skylight, and rooms tucked beneath the staircases complete a house where architecture, exercise, and energy generation become one continuous system.
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Mokase turns the smartphone into an unlikely espresso maker, combining a slim, waterproof phone case with a disposable coffee cartridge, built-in heating system, and companion app. Designed by Luigi Carfora and Clemente Biondo of Smart K, the concept reimagines portable coffee by transforming an object already carried everywhere into a miniature brewing device.
More extraordinary coffee makers on our blog.
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Berlin-based artist and designer Simon Weckert’s @simonweckert Digital Camouflage is a brightly patterned shirt designed to challenge AI-powered video surveillance systems. Developed in response to Berlin’s planned AI surveillance trial at Kottbusser Tor, the garment uses saturated colours and overlapping forms intended to disrupt the visual patterns that object-detection models associate with human figures. Weckert developed the pattern through an AI-driven adversarial testing process, repeatedly refining it against the detection system to reduce its confidence in recognising a person.
Credits: simonweckert.com
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After the Last Sip is a material research project by Taiwanese designers Chao-Chun Kung, Ching-Yu Lin, and Chen-Yang Chang that repurposes discarded coffee grounds and tea leaves into 3D-printed furniture, lighting, and sculptural objects. Developed at Fab.Pub in East London, the material combines dried and ground coffee and tea waste with PLA, a biodegradable polymer, and is processed using robotic 3D printing and parametric design. The project explores how everyday organic waste can become a functional and expressive design material while retaining visible traces of its original form.
More design from coffee grounds and tea leaves on blog.
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For blind and visually impaired users, making a simple cup of tea can involve a series of hidden risks, from handling boiling water to operating appliances without visual feedback. Ivana Nedeljkovska’s Smart Cup rethinks this routine by combining a kettle, teapot, and drinking cup into one touch-oriented vessel, eliminating the need to transfer hot liquids. Raised Braille controls, a guiding base, an ergonomic handle, and heat-resistant construction support safer, more independent use, while its warm-toned sculptural form brings accessibility into a polished everyday object.
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Design Wood Home Studio’s The Lens is a timber viewing pavilion on Kizhi Island that offers a contemporary frame for the UNESCO-listed Kizhi Pogost. Set at the island’s northern tip, its rhythmic wooden slats reinterpret traditional Russian lemekh shingles, while a cupola-shaped opening aligns the historic churches into a single sculptural view. The bench-like micro-structure turns the landscape into a living architectural composition, with shifting light and shadows adding depth to its textured timber skin.
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Studio Carraldo’s backdirwas_5 is a community oven in Boden, Austria, that translates local Alpine building traditions into a compact contemporary structure. Created for the Medienfrische festival, the oven combines a concrete base cast with timber-log formwork, a heat-retaining firebrick dome, and a sculptural stainless steel shell inspired by traditional Alpine shingles. More than a functional oven, it creates a shared space for local residents and visiting artists to gather, cook, and connect through making.
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MAD has unveiled updated designs for Danshuis, a new dance centre in Rotterdam that will transform a 1923 Art Deco warehouse with a striking four-storey glass extension. Inspired by the flowing movement of a dancer’s skirt, the rippling facade will form a transparent foyer wrapped around a spiral staircase, blurring the boundary between interior and landscape. Set to open in 2030, the centre will bring together dance studios, performance and exhibition spaces, a gym, café, public hall, and river-facing terraces.
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This open-source Raspberry Pi book reader rethinks accessibility by eliminating the screen entirely. Two 16-megapixel cameras scan an open book, OCR converts the pages to text, and text-to-speech reads them aloud through tactile controls. NFC tags let users manage multiple books, while automatic summaries help readers pick up where they left off. Designed by Ludwin (lhm0), the project combines thoughtful optical engineering, accessible interaction, and open hardware to turn printed books into screen-free audiobooks.
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Scentra gives rosemary waste a surprising second life as packaging. Designed by Zhixi Dai, Zhou Yun, and Wang Zhan, the protective block uses compressed rosemary trimmings and a seaweed binder to cradle an essential oil bottle. But the cleverness does not end at unboxing: the rosemary retains its natural scent, allowing the packaging to become a passive diffuser. By turning agricultural waste into both protection and a functional object, Scentra shows how sustainable design can be practical, sensory, and genuinely delightful.
More eco-friendly packaging on our blog.
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Nafaskāri by material researcher and designer Vibhuti Amin explores how biotechnology can help preserve endangered craft traditions while creating climate-resilient alternatives to synthetic dyes. Developed with master artisans in Srikalahasti, India, the project introduces pigment-producing soil bacteria into the 3,000-year-old Kalamkari tradition, responding to rising temperatures and water scarcity that threaten botanical dye crops. Its low-tech Nafas Chamber enables artisans to cultivate microbial pigments locally, connecting scientific innovation with heritage knowledge, ecological resilience, and greater autonomy for maker communities.
