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Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden
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Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens.
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3 May 16
Product spotlight: Edyn Garden
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Product Design
Stay connected to your garden with the world's first smart garden system and app.
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17 Jun 14
Garden explorations
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Architecture & Interiors
Matali Crasset's Le Blobterre de Matali is an installation that serves as a space of exploration for children.
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28 Nov 11
Food fight: Maranda Engelbrecht
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Food Design
Food stylist and chef Maranda Engelbrecht says that home-grown and home cooked is the ultimate luxury.
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14 Nov 11
Shapes of eight
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Architecture & Interiors
The 8 House allows people to bike all the way from the street to the 10th level penthouses.
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25 Jun 11
Cinematic experience
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Architecture & Interiors
Naço Architecture has worked to once again make the Heng Shan cinema in Shanghai the place to be.
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14 May 11
Woolworths Trust living wall at DI2011
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Design Thinking
Join Woolworths in making a difference by planting a virtual seedling at Design Indaba Conference and Expo.
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23 Feb 11
Plant a wall
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Industrial Design
The Wallflower Vertical Garden is a modular planter system by Haldane Martin, created to enable city dwellers to grow their own plants.
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21 Feb 11
Li Edelkoort at DI2011
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Design Thinking
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Architecture & Interiors
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Woolworths is pleased to present Li Edelkoort’s Trend Seminars in Cape Town and Johannesburg, in association with Design Indaba.
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15 Feb 11
Green feet
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Product Design
Forget green fingers. With Oats Shoes's new Virgin Collection you can have green feet, or shoes rather.
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12 Feb 11
Connecting bridge
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
A new mega structure in Seoul, South Korea, is more than just a bridge... It generates its own power.
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21 Oct 10
Home: Good housekeeping
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
Vastu Shastra is the ancient Indian architectural practice of constructing buildings in harmony with nature.
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1 Aug 10
Push and Phul
Design News
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Product Design
You know you’ve got a winner when a chair is not only comfortable to sit on but also exceptionally beautiful to look at.
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27 Jul 10
Cement garden
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CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover.
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1 Nov 09
Crop share actionism
Profiling
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Design Thinking
Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork.
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1 Nov 09
Soil soul
Profiling
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Urban & Landscape Design
Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet.
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1 Nov 09
Lawn attack
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Design Thinking
The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape.
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1 Nov 09
Barrel o’ rain
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Designed to look like a giant water drop, Bas van der Veer’s A Drop of Water collects rainwater by filling a watering can and rain barrel.
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1 Nov 09
Farm in a box
Design News
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Design Thinking
The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system.
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1 Nov 09
Growth and death
Design News
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Design Thinking
Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants.
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1 Nov 09
Spy vs spy
Design News
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Design Thinking
The growing worldwide guerilla gardening subculture comprises people secretly meeting at night to illegally garden.
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2 Oct 09
Harsh geometry for plants
Design News
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Product Design
Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics.
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1 Feb 09
Sunflower power
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece.
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1 Aug 08
Avant garden
Opinion
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Urban & Landscape Design
Spring has sprung in the UK and Dan Pearson is busy, writes Lynda Relph-Knight.
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1 May 04
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