November 2009 Archive

  • Crop share actionism
    Profiling • 1 Nov 09
    Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork. >
  • Transhuman metamorphosis
    Q&A • 1 Nov 09
    Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations. >
  • Gay architectural mockumentary
    Reviews • 1 Nov 09
    Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >
  • Channel O lucky packet
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The new magazine Coco Joe has been conceived as a brand extension for Channel O by Peet Pienaar and design studio The President. >
  • The don of design
    Opinion • 1 Nov 09
    Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >
  • Soil soul
    Profiling • 1 Nov 09
    Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet. >
  • Lawn attack
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. >
  • Farm in a box
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system. >
  • Social farmwork
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing social networking site launched by Liz McLellan. >
  • Suburban spread
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
  • Pocketful of posies
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >
  • Ornamental pastures
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism. >
  • Grown tables
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >
  • Cereal assemblage
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products. >
  • Food miles
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country. >
  • Mould robots
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first-ever biological robot using mould. >
  • Functional food
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food. >
  • SMS with fish
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes. >
  • Body pharming
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Michael Burton’s design projects predict a future scenario where people grow and produce clinical and pharmaceutical products on the body. >
  • Robotic aquaculture
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The self-sustaining and untethered Oceansphere is powered by a patent-pending hybrid ocean thermal energy conversion system. >
  • Jelly fishfarm
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Somewhere between a biodegradable fish farm and a synthetic reef, Microcosmic Aquaculture is a speculative project. >
  • Powerplant tomatoes
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A collaboration between Great Northern Hydroponics and GE Energy has resulted in a massive greenhouse cogeneration plant. >
  • Dust to dust
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Sietch Nevada, by Matsys design studio, projects water-banking as the fundamental factor in future urban infrastructure. >
  • Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen.
    Singing in the rain
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen provides protection while collecting and filtering rainwater to make it safe to drink. >

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