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MINI explores the future of living, the mobility and shows how you can best live in the smallest possible space.

A feast for the senses

With the “MINI Concept Aceman” concept car, MINI is adding a compact runabout with an unusually edgy design language to its dynamic family: a fully electric crossover model that offers a wide range of sensory features. As a study, incidentally, it also proves that an SUV does not have to be big.

Perfect imperfection

MINI has teamed up with British fashion designer Paul Smith to design the MINI STRIP. The result shows how aesthetic and simultaneously sustainable a successful pared-down product can be.

Living the moment

"MINI Vision Urbanaut" is the name of the digital vision vehicle from MINI. The concept focuses on a spacious interior that can be flexibly adapted to the user's needs.

A dream of space

“MINI Vision Urbanaut” is the name of the current digital vision for a new MINI. A real new departure because the design boasts a completely different character from the models to date by this car brand.

Unmistakable appearance

Our interview with Oliver Heilmer, Vice President MINI Design, on the first all-electric MINI, David Bowie and the quest for maximizing quality in the tightest of spaces.

The future of living

In presentations worldwide car brand MINI has demonstrated how to maximize small footprints with its MINI LIVING installations. Now things are getting serious: The first MINI LIVING co-living destination is to be built in Shanghai and construction work is scheduled to start this year.

An icon, two characters

Thomas Wagner spoke to Christopher Weil, in charge of Exterior Design at MINI, about the “MINI Electric Concept” and the “MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept”.

The breathing house

In Milan, MINI LIVING is exploring contemporary forms of living with a confined footprint. The “Breathe” installation, devised in collaboration with New York architects SO - IL in a Milan inner courtyard, provides space for up to three people, developing new urban space for occupation.

MINI LIVING: Three ‘third places’

As part of the MINI LIVING initative highlighting creative solutions for the challenges of urban living, MINI teamed up with architect Asif Khan at the London Design Festival 2016 to create the MINI LIVING “Forests” installation, comprising three temporary “third places” in Shoreditch. They are thus presenting a concept for how previously unused public spaces can be activated to cater to people’s needs.

Shared space is double the space

In large cities, there’s an ever greater shortage of affordable apartments. Automaker MINI teamed up with the architects at Yokohama’s ON design and the Berlin office of international engineering consultancy Arup to create a remarkable solution – for the Salone del Mobile 2016.