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Petri dish flesh

Design News > Interaction Design

The Tissue Culture and Art Project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr explores the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression.

1 Nov 09
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Crop artist

Design News > Design Thinking

Environmental artist Agnes Denes’s iconic 1982 work, Wheatfield, is revived in London in 2009.

1 Nov 09
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Mushrooms on the run

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

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

Design News > Design Thinking

Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants.

1 Nov 09
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Communal pods

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Product Design

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

Design News > Design Thinking

The Crowd Farm draws energy through a flooring system that responds to human footsteps.

1 Nov 09
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Readymade oasis

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > 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.

1 Nov 09
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Rain harvesting

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > 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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > 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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > Design Thinking

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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > Product Design

A tree is a product of its specific time and place.

1 Nov 09

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