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  • Hive device
    Could this convenient bug harvesting design make insect-based diets popular?
    Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design
    Living Farms is being spearheaded by Austrian multidisciplinary designer, Katharina Unger. >
    12 Jul 19
  • Dirt-free herb farming for urban dwellers
    Dirt-free herb farming for urban dwellers
    Product Spotlight > Product Design
    The Amphora allows even the busiest people to grow fresh herbs. >
    8 Aug 16
  • Designed by Senegalese architecture firm Atelier Koe, Al Hamra is an earth brick farmhouse located in the bush, away from the buzzing capital of Dakar.
    Al Hamra is an earth brick farmhouse located away from the buzzing capital of Senegal
    Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors
    The architects were faced with the challenge of building a livable home in a seemingly hostile environment. >
    10 Feb 16
  • Farming your own mealworms could be a reality with this desktop farm.
    LIVIN Farm’s Hive lets you grow and farm your own mealworms
    Product Spotlight > Food Design
    A desktop hive for the kitchen allows users to feed, farm then eat their own mealworms. >
    25 Nov 15
  • Rural inspiration
    Design News > Craft / Product Design
    Chic Revolution's vintage-inspired décor accessories take their cue from farm life. >
    27 Feb 11
  • Protofarm 2050: Multinational Feedback Loop
    Do Tank News > Interaction Design
    Futurefarmers explain their Multinational Feedback Loop - recycling and reusing, in order to sustain the cultivation of renewable resources. >
    7 Jan 10
  • Protofarm 2050: Electrocyte Appendix
    Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    The Electrocyte Appendix is a human organ for converting blood sugar into electricity. >
    15 Dec 09
  • Protofarm 2050: Oogst
    Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    Frank Tjepkema's Oogst is a self-sustaining environment for 1, 100 or 1 000 people. >
    15 Dec 09
  • Protofarm 2050: Victory Gardens
    Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    Amy Franceschini explains Futurefarmers's approach to community-based Victory Gardens. >
    15 Dec 09
  • Protofarm 2050: Foragers
    Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    Dunne&Raby speculate that people will start using genetic modification to maximize the nutritional value of their surroundings. >
    14 Dec 09
  • Protofarm 2050: The Guide To Free Farming
    Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    The Guide to Free Farming, by 5.5 designers, is a handbook to sourcing nutrition in the urban environment. >
    14 Dec 09
  • Protofarm 2050
    Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    Design Indaba commissioned a range of top designers to conceive the ways in which farming will adapt in the future. >
    24 Nov 09
  • Protofarm 2050 in Singapore
    Do Tank News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Food Design / Industrial Design / Interaction Design
    “Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announces Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress. >
    24 Nov 09
  • Farm with a view
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Lawn attack
    Design News > Design Thinking
    The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Suburban spread
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Growth and death
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Farm in a box
    Design News > Design Thinking
    The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system. >
    1 Nov 09
  • 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
  • Mushrooms on the run
    Design News > Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Agata Jaworska’s In Transit proposes growing mushrooms in the packaging while they are being transported. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Countertop farming
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Domesticated farming options to try in your kitchen. >
    2 Oct 09
  • Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design
    Inside View > Urban & Landscape Design
    Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design. >
    1 May 08
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