welcomes arts and culture an extraordinary story about surfing in of all places afghanistan that's coming up also there's imitations of the world famous october last 3 found in all sorts of countries but none quite on the scale of the one in china. and we take a look at the best and brightest of british design on show at the london design festival. we begin with a beautiful story from afghanistan a country which as we're always hearing on the news is still struggling with the legacy of decades of war on terror a documentary called afghanistan is an unusual road movie about the search for the perfect wave in this war torn country after doing

a movie grew up here in germany where he fell in love with surfing this incredibly positive guy now plans a project in which afghan children will learn to swim a maybe eventually get interested in finding a perfect way. seraphim this surfing is to surrender to the moment. when a good done. thus far to not think about what was or what will come right for just experiencing. fuel magic being at one with nature and i for general mood loves the sport so much that he came up with an audacious idea to say afghanistan. afghanistan a mountainous landlocked country this is where after 2 namu and his surfing mates hope to ride the way to this is beautiful. it's

an incredible journey ocean's surface has brought along 2 river wave surfers the plan to put afghanistan on the surfing map. there are many reasons why we made this trip to afghanistan but one of them is definitely all the joy the support i experienced when i took part in the world cup. but i thought that the ones i wanted to bring to afghanistan but it's not afghanistan. coming fled at the age of 5 with his family to germany he studied law and worked as an expert in constitutional law but his passion is surfing the 32 year old trains in berlin with a set of skate board his i mean to qualify for the 2020 olympics representing the country of his birth afghanistan. is concerned one of the afghanistan that i know

is a beautiful afghanistan incredible unique landscapes and a hospitality that is 2nd to none. a mystic a spirituality that is ever present and with our trip we wanted to show this afghanistan. these are show that afghanistan is much more than war terror and suffering. and light to surface travel to the pangea valley one of the few regions that were not captured by the taliban here in front of locals who have never seen a surfboard before they plunge into the raging river. that's why. there were so many people around us children cheering us on rejoicing with us and giving us advice telling us where to go where we should try to serve so in the end it was just a euphoric experience that people were really celebrating what we were doing. so

thing as a passion it's with moments like these that the film also to me it is something that we don't see in the news when it comes to afghanistan and it shows a closeness to the people who live their lives despite war and terror on the surface spirit as a moment of happiness so. i'm gonna support the afghans are sports enthusiasts sports crazy because during the time of the taliban 1996 to 2001 it was forbidden to do sports and that's why there's a kind of counter reaction on all corners everywhere you can see people doing sport because the sport also provides the opportunity in a way to forget about every day life i mean i guess. the attempts to conquer the waves becomes a spectacle again and again the surface fail but their efforts combined with the passion of the locals is rewarded the river specialist proved what had to be proved you can see in afghanistan.

what amazing guy the annual lumber design festival is an opportunity for designers to show off their large format installations in various spaces in the british capital. this year there's a real interest in socio political topics like sustainability climate change a marine pollution in the wake of increasing worries about how we are not looking after our planet and indeed ourselves designers are coming up with inventive solutions. the insulation please be seated is the newest worth of british design a pool called sage specially created for the london design festival. things we see there's about how can we create a different kind of. different moment you know and so it's a contrast in terms of kind of materials you know like this is steel and glass and structural and heights and verticality this is more softer materials the undulating

installation fills the space completely without blocking it a place to relax for the people who work can wander in the area cox it has been developing innovative design ideas in his studio since 2004 has created a number of large format installations providing an oasis of calm for people like this one in the atrium of an office block. is called a living staircase because it's a spiral of green and wood and everyone who moves in gets a plant that they plant on this staircase and we've created almost like a garden where people can kind of look after the plants be around nature. this newest project please be seated is made of recycled materials the complex wood construction took 6 months to make the reckoning the new design for the festival took 5 days. another festival highlight is see things created by sam

jacob the couponing of visitors to the victorian albert museum weighs a few tonnes and is a visualization of the effect of plastic on the oceans. it runs from 1900 the origins of commercial plastic production to 2050 which is a day that the macarthur foundation have predicted that if we carry on in the way that we've been haven been behaving as a society and that 50 percent of the oceans will be will be wasted. one solution is offered by japanese architect can go his installation is constructed out of balance though and cotton and extremely robust building materials the combination of regenerative and recycled materials brings together innovative design and sustainability bringing large scale works that incorporate new thinking into public space is one of the top priorities for a festival director been evidence way using these bigger scale installations in

public places to have an impact the issue in london is there's too much going on and we're kind of spoiled cultivar culturally and creatively and we're trying to fly the flag for design and tell a story and really help us do it unfortunately pool cocks it just please be seated is only a temporary away says in the parceling scene when the festival is over we packed up and taken to a new high and. the biggest beer festival in the world gets underway in munich this weekend the october 1st actually always starts here in september and meanwhile there are fast replicas all over the world which begin well whenever it suits the various countries they're in and guess who has the biggest outside of germany china of course indeed it takes over a huge area of the port city of qingdao.

the. people. there for. the beer festival the variance through through twitter chinese touched. the port an industrial city qingdao celebrates a sober fest every year several 1000000 guests come to this reproduction of these ritual grounds in munich it may look more or less authentic but it sounds quite different. to. the shoot out beer festival is the world's largest october fest knockoff. called to give me more are to me that if you don't otherwise. this is the 10th time for it sends out working the chinese a tobar fast sir it's the highlight of the year your hometown. at the change out there festival have a lot to me as a local i see the october fest here as our greatest pride actually it's the pride

of all china it's not. like that here's your beer. 2017 cents hour realize the dream of hers and went to the a tobar fest the new nick she still talks about the costumes and traditions. but one thing impressed her above all else on the 2 of them well what surprised me most of all was the strong servers who can carry so much beer at once i saw one with 8 stein's at one time. beer is every bit a part of qingdao is october fest every guest drinks an average of one these are almost as much as patrons in munich but you won't find any german brass music. loud speakers beer chinese pop you sick on lots of techno.

the food is also adopted the chinese tastes the prop 1st comes across a little bit sweeter and the grilled chicken has been replaced by octopus on a spit. over $1400.00 fridays of beer from all over the world are offered at the festival but the favorite by far is the local qingdao beer that embodies a piece of german chinese history. then 1907 the germans occupied the chinese city and developed it into a trading base 6 years after the germania brewery opens the germans themselves may have not been popular in china but their beer certainly was still brewed according to the old purity law under the name change down. the beer that the core do resemble munich's october fest delighting visitors from anew with the original if you and i like the germans the atmosphere and spirit in germany are great and of course world famous german beer to. that this is what i like

most here is the beer on tap from jingo it tastes exactly like it makes me feel like i'm in germany even though i'm inching down to what. the chinese celebrate direct tobar fest in summer this year a total of $7200000.00 guests came the parting reaches fever pitch on the eve of the busiest time for james out coming up a 2 star. james 0 works into the wee hours of the morning. even with its differences there's one thing the regulars at munich's and china's of tobar fest have in common they all party like there's no tomorrow. so have a good enough job and design in the total festive china what more could you want many more stories on the websites of d.w. dot com slash culture but that's all for now thanks for watching and for myself and all the crew here about it.

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