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Farm with a view
Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms.
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Crop share actionism
Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork.
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The don of design
Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life.
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Suburban spread
Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric.
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Farm footprint
The Crowd Farm draws energy through a flooring system that responds to human footsteps.
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SMS with fish
Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes.
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Earthship
The Science Barge is a prototype sustainable urban farm and environmental education centre afloat the Hudson River in New York.
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Jelly fishfarm
Somewhere between a biodegradable fish farm and a synthetic reef, Microcosmic Aquaculture is a speculative project.
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Growth and death
Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants.
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Social farmwork
Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing social networking site launched by Liz McLellan.
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Readymade oasis
Evan Gant’s RainDrops system allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rainwater.
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Pocketful of posies
Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants.
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Flower power
Comprising 15 solar panelled sunflowers, the Electric Garden in Austin, Texas, is literally what its name says.
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Robotic aquaculture
The self-sustaining and untethered Oceansphere is powered by a patent-pending hybrid ocean thermal energy conversion system.
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Communal pods
The Eco-pod proposes to stimulate the economy and ecology of downtown Boston through the installation of a temporary vertical algae...
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Lawn attack
The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape.
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Dust to dust
Sietch Nevada, by Matsys design studio, projects water-banking as the fundamental factor in future urban infrastructure.
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Milton Glaser keeps it moving
New York’s SVA Theatre has been redesigned by world-renowned designer Milton Glaser.
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Design benefit
Designed by DJ Stout, the 39th edition of the Pentagram Papers features signs from the homeless.
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Twin Towers live on in logos
Ji Lee has launched an open project to photograph and preserve images of the Twin Towers in New York City logos.
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Beat this bike!
Yves Béhar designs the Mission One Electric Motorcycle, the first electric sports bike that features uncompromised performance.
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Reinvent yourself
Apply now to have your creativity rebooted by Paul Sahre, James Victore and Jan Wilker in their graphic design workshop from 20 to 25 July.
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You and Your Browser
Illustrator Christoph Niemann has created an animated ad for Google's new browser, Chrome.
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