Innovation
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Shining a light on Saudi design
Just six years after launching her brand, Nuun Jewels, Saudi jewelry designer Nourah Al Faisal has earned an international reputation, and she is using her celebrity to help support the Kingdom’s fast-growing design community. “Designers like me who have the…
The smartest city
Thousands of years after the world’s first great cities emerged in the fertile lands of the ancient Middle East, the region is playing a starring role in a new chapter in urban civilization.
SEAT’s Hola Tapas Bar is off the ground in Vienna
The company created in Barcelona combines the culinary and automotive worlds and opens a restaurant in the Austrian capital. SEAT partners with chef Juan Amador to offer a new customer experience concept.
Global leaders call for new Marshall Plan
World leaders and innovators have called for a green global recovery plan which will power the restart of the economy and accelerate progress towards the targets of the Paris Agreement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Cooperation and technology hold key to Covid-19 response
In December 2019, when few people could point to Wuhan on a map and even fewer knew what a coronavirus was, a risk software company in Toronto was already using AI to scrawl through websites and databases and accurately predict…
SEAT primed for new era
SEAT presents its new micromobility products globally, the SEAT MÓ eScooter 125 and the SEAT MÓ eKickScooter 65.
New hope for plastics recycling
The critical part played by plastics in modern life has never been clearer. This much misunderstood material has proved its worth across all facets of the global response to Covid-19. One of the world’s largest plastics companies is demonstrating a…
Sputnik moment for humanity
When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first man-made satellite in 1957, it triggered a Space Race that would revolutionise global communications, take mankind to the moon and transform humanity’s understanding of its place in the cosmos.
Cars vs Boredom
In the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis, forced confinement is also an opportunity for doing relaxing, leisure activities at home.
The man driving Cupra
They said it couldn’t be done. At the start of 2018, when Barcelona‑based SEAT launched its CUPRA brand for a new generation of sports cars, the world’s automotive press gave the venture little chance of success. What was SEAT doing…