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Mushrooms on the run
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Agata Jaworska’s In Transit proposes growing mushrooms in the packaging while they are being transported.
1 Nov 09
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Growth and death
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Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants.
1 Nov 09
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Communal pods
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The Eco-pod proposes to stimulate the economy and ecology of downtown Boston through the installation of a temporary vertical algae...
1 Nov 09
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Earthship
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The Science Barge is a prototype sustainable urban farm and environmental education centre afloat the Hudson River in New York.
1 Nov 09
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Flower power
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Comprising 15 solar panelled sunflowers, the Electric Garden in Austin, Texas, is literally what its name says.
1 Nov 09
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Hard stomach
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Julia Lohmann’s work explores the threshold between animal and animal material, probing society’s attitude towards animals.
1 Nov 09
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Farm footprint
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The Crowd Farm draws energy through a flooring system that responds to human footsteps.
1 Nov 09
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Readymade oasis
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Evan Gant’s RainDrops system allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rainwater.
1 Nov 09
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Barrel o’ rain
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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.
1 Nov 09
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Rain harvesting
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The Cista is a rainwater harvesting system designed to be attractive and easy to use.
1 Nov 09
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Singing in the rain
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Product Design
The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen provides protection while collecting and filtering rainwater to make it safe to drink.
1 Nov 09
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Dust to dust
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Sietch Nevada, by Matsys design studio, projects water-banking as the fundamental factor in future urban infrastructure.
1 Nov 09
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Powerplant tomatoes
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A collaboration between Great Northern Hydroponics and GE Energy has resulted in a massive greenhouse cogeneration plant.
1 Nov 09
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Jelly fishfarm
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Somewhere between a biodegradable fish farm and a synthetic reef, Microcosmic Aquaculture is a speculative project.
1 Nov 09
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Robotic aquaculture
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The self-sustaining and untethered Oceansphere is powered by a patent-pending hybrid ocean thermal energy conversion system.
1 Nov 09
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Body pharming
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Interaction Design
Michael Burton’s design projects predict a future scenario where people grow and produce clinical and pharmaceutical products on the body.
1 Nov 09
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SMS with fish
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Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes.
1 Nov 09
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Functional food
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Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food.
1 Nov 09
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Mould robots
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Interaction Design
Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first-ever biological robot using mould.
1 Nov 09
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Food miles
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Creative Economy
WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country.
1 Nov 09
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Cereal assemblage
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Interaction Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products.
1 Nov 09
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Grown tables
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Product Design
A tree is a product of its specific time and place.
1 Nov 09
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Ornamental pastures
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Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism.
1 Nov 09
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Pocketful of posies
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Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants.
1 Nov 09
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