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Creative think tank, fostering creativity and innovation. More about our projects: beopenfuture.com

📈 Analytical overview of Telegram channel Be Open think tank

Channel Be Open think tank (@beopenfuture) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 24 690 subscribers, ranking 1 165 in the Art & Design category and 1 646 in the USA region.

📊 Audience metrics and dynamics

Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 24 690 subscribers.

According to the latest data from 22 June, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -2 123 over the last 30 days and by -797 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.

Verification status: Not verified
Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 8.48%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 8.38% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
Post reach: On average, each post receives 2 100 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 2 075 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 23 June, 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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Posts per day

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Posts Archive

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#BeOpenDESIGN On the Calculation of Volume reimagines a Greenpoint apartment as a reflection on repetition, storage, and urban survival in New York City. Designed by architect Massimiliano Malagò with client Kathleen Pongrace, the project draws on literary references from Solvej Balle and Simone de Beauvoir to shape sculptural furniture pieces that balance permanence and decay through ceramic tile, foam, and integrated storage. Responding to the pressures of limited space and a growing personal library, the renovation transforms domestic objects into studies of time, accumulation, and everyday city life.

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#BeOpenDESIGN STEA by French designer Eliot Andrault reimagines personal heating by shifting focus from whole-room systems to body-centered warmth. Developed at La Cambre in Belgium, the device uses refractory bricks to store and slowly release heat, creating a localized microclimate with minimal energy use. Operating on a short heating cycle followed by extended heat diffusion, STEA reduces continuous power consumption while delivering a steady, enveloping warmth. Its monolithic form, inspired by cast-iron radiators and softened by a portable steel handle, reflects a balance between industrial presence and human use. Designed for disassembly, repair, and recyclability, the project proposes a more sustainable and intentional relationship to heat.

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#BeOpenNEWS #BeOpenART BE OPEN Art has announced Helena Mirich as the first Regional Artist of the Month for the Central Europe stage of its 2026 BE OPEN Regional Art programme, which highlights emerging talent from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. A Croatian-born, Berlin-based self-taught painter, Mirich is known for her intuitive practice rooted in nature, dreams, mysticism, occult knowledge, and symbolism, often exploring symmetrical composition through a process she describes as self-surrender and ceremonial ritual. The one Regional Winner chosen at the end of the stage will receive a €500 cash prize and increased international visibility through the BE OPEN Art platform.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Omnibite by Milan-based designers Eugenio Costa and Nicolò Tallone turns the furniture joint into the visual centerpiece. Bright mechanical connectors clamp onto raw branches in a striking contrast of industrial geometry and organic texture, creating structures that feel both improvised and engineered. The result is a system where construction itself becomes the design language. More unconventional furniture joints on our blog.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Daniel Idle’s Terrarium Phone Case rethinks smartphone accessories through the lens of sustainability, transforming the iPhone 16 Pro Max into a self-contained living ecosystem. By embedding moss, soil, and small plants inside a transparent resin shell, the concept introduces biophilic design directly into consumer tech. Its closed-loop system sustains plant life through natural cycles of light, moisture, and condensation, encouraging a more thoughtful relationship between technology and the environment. More unusual phone cases on our blog.

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#BeOpenNEWS We thank everyone who submitted initiatives and everyone who cast their votes. We are pleased to announce the winners of the First, Second and Third Prizes, as well as the Public Vote Prize. The €5,000 First Prize goes to Norah Kimathi (Kenya) for Zerobionic, an AI-powered robotic exoskeleton improving access to STEM education for deaf and hard-of-hearing girls. The €3,000 Second Prize goes to Victress Igboanusim (Nigeria) for Calyx-Probe, a handheld AI-powered device improving access to non-invasive reproductive healthcare. The €2,000 Third Prize goes to Lennox Omondi, Dullah Shiltone, Keylie Muthoni and Brian Ndung'u (Kenya) for Ecobana transforming banana waste into biodegradable sanitary pads for underserved communities. The €2,000 Public Vote Prize goes to Akshat Shah, Harshavi Patel and Aryaa Bhagwat (India) for Samvaad Saathi, supporting financial inclusion for women daily-wage construction workers. Founder’s Choice Winner will be announced shortly.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Industrial designer Matan Rechter presents Shelly, a personal outdoor workstation designed for focused work in natural environments. Shaped as a lounge chair with a foldable protective hood, the structure creates a semi-private space for reading, relaxing, or remote work while maintaining a connection to the outdoors. Built from aluminum profiles and UV-resistant Cordura fabric, Shelly balances airflow, shade, and comfort, reflecting the growing shift toward flexible work-from-anywhere lifestyles.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Birdhouse by Kids is a workshop-based project by Taekhan Yun that transforms children’s drawings and clay models into sculptural birdhouses for local bird species in Cambodia. Expanding on the earlier Chair for Kids initiative, the project shifts design away from a human-centered approach by using children’s intuitive imagination to rethink habitats for non-human users. Through drawing, modeling, and hands-on construction with wood, cardboard, and paper, the workshop produces playful yet functional birdhouses that preserve the spontaneity of the original sketches while exploring new relationships between participation, architecture, and nature.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Developed by a Royal College of Art student, the PhytoSymbiosis Seat redefines public furniture as a living, evolving system integrated with its environment. Combining porous bio-concrete, Voronoi geometry, and climbing ivy, the structure strengthens over time as plant growth becomes part of its stability. Grounded in urban research and supported by computational analysis, the design shifts the role of seating from passive use to active care, inviting users to participate in maintenance through watering and interaction. (via archup.net)

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#BeOpenNEWS The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) is launching a new online learning journey, “Nurturing Collective Transformations: Learning and Unlearning in Harmony with Nature” — a free four-session training series celebrating the International Day for Biodiversity 2026. Bringing together young people from around the world, the programme explores biodiversity, socio-ecological challenges, and pathways for collective action and transformative change. Sessions begin on 30 May and continue through July, with participants receiving a certificate upon completion. The training is free, held online, and includes language support in Spanish and French. Registration is now open.

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#BeOpenDESIGN British production designer Jabez Bartlett is rethinking inflatable furniture with Inflatable Table 001. Constructed from pillowy PVC and finished with an opalescent resin tabletop, the coffee table blurs the line between sculpture and functional design. The soft inflated base gives the piece a dreamlike quality, while the glossy resin surface introduces a sense of permanence and refinement rarely associated with inflatable objects. Drawing from materials commonly used in film set production, Bartlett transforms something traditionally temporary into a tactile statement piece that feels immersive, playful, and unexpectedly luxurious. More inflatable furniture on our blog.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Theo by PLANK transforms the folding chair from a temporary utility object into a refined architectural presence. Designed by Matteo Thun and Benedetto Fasciana, it pairs solid oak, molded plywood, and an elegantly integrated folding mechanism to create a chair that feels permanent even when it is portable. What sets Theo apart is its ability to blend contract-grade functionality with the warmth and sophistication of contemporary residential furniture. More design-minded folding chairs on our blog.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Shanghai-based designer Mario Tsai’s Chopsticks Maker reinterprets the mechanics of a pencil sharpener as a portable tool for carving disposable chopsticks from found twigs. Compact and materially minimal, the device transforms raw branches into functional utensils through a simple rotational cutting process, emphasizing resourcefulness over manufactured convenience. By reducing cutlery to an on-site, biodegradable system, the project explores how familiar mechanical principles can be repurposed to create lightweight, low-impact tools rooted in improvisation and direct engagement with natural materials.

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#BeOpenART Vitamins, a collaboration between designer Eleonore Buschinger (Vitamin Color) and photographer Tabea Mathern, repositions vegetables as a construction material for contemporary still-life and image-making. Developed in New York, the series replaces conventional industrial objects with assemblages of produce, where fruits, roots, and leaves are cut, layered, and structured into forms that mimic fashion accessories and household items. Each composition is physically prototyped and photographed in a narrow temporal window due to the perishability of the material, resulting in images that emphasize ephemerality, texture, and form.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Japanese designer Shigeya Miyata’s pause series recontextualizes discontinued Honda motorcycle components by embedding them within cast concrete forms to create functional domestic objects. By fixing precision-engineered mechanical parts into static material compositions, the project contrasts motion with stillness while exposing the formal and material qualities of components typically concealed within machines. Mirrors, vases, pen holders, and photo frames emerge as hybrid objects positioned between industrial artifact and sculptural furniture, where concrete acts both as structural mass and conceptual counterpoint to the engineered precision of the original parts.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Designer Matthew Whatley’s Novum Chair investigates the structural and aesthetic potential of bio-based composites in furniture design. Constructed from woven natural fibers bonded with plant-based resin, the chair develops a rigid monocoque shell where material texture remains visibly embedded within the surface. The continuous curved geometry distributes load through the composite skin while emphasizing the tactile qualities of the woven substrate. Rather than concealing its fabrication, the design foregrounds the interaction between fiber, resin, and form, proposing a material-led approach to furniture that moves beyond petrochemical plastics.

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#BeOpenARCH New York–based Studio Bucky’s Cucu is a compact off-grid cabin nestled within the rural landscape of Westmeath, Ireland. Clad in red-stained shingles that reference local agricultural structures, the cabin combines a striking exterior with a vertically organized interior inspired by traditional Irish tower houses. Its tapered form, plywood-lined spaces, and elevated sleeping loft create an intimate spatial experience that emphasizes height, light, and connection to nature.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Aureole by Rollo Bryant reinterprets the spiral geometry of sunflower disk florets through advanced 3D printing and quartz sand construction. The sculptural wall lamp features densely layered organic textures that diffuse hidden backlighting into dramatic eclipse-like shadows, transforming a natural growth pattern into a futuristic lighting experience. More nature-inspired lighting on our blog.

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#BeOpenDESIGN Israeli designer Omri Piko Kahan transforms discarded bicycle frames into sculptural lounge chairs that preserve every detail of their former life. By reorienting the frames instead of disguising them, the project turns industrial engineering into functional furniture with surprising elegance, structural intelligence, and a strong sense of material honesty. More tubular furniture on our blog.

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DESIGN EQUALITY is the 7th international competition in the SDG-focused programme run by BE OPEN and partners. Open to students and graduates worldwide, the competition encourages innovative solutions by young people for a more prosperous and sustainable future. Empowering women and girls plays a critical role in accelerating economic growth and social development. By dedicating the 2025/2026 competition to SDG#5, BE OPEN promotes solutions advancing gender equality, meeting the needs of women and girls, and supporting women as innovators and entrepreneurs. BE OPEN will reward winners with grants from €2,000 to €5,000, educational opportunities and trips to a sustainability event. This year’s jury includes Barbara della Rovere (FAO), Helen Watts (Student Energy), Anna Kaplina (UNECE), Peter Gamundani (GSSA), Anastasia Adamidou (Cyprus Gender Equality Office), Françoise Mlebinge (SOLIFEDE-RDC), Ajisafe Damilola Ifeoluwa (TerraYouth Africa). The three main winners selected will be announced at end of May 2026.