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Could this convenient bug harvesting design make insect-based diets popular?
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Product Design
Living Farms is being spearheaded by Austrian multidisciplinary designer, Katharina Unger.
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12 Jul 19
Dirt-free herb farming for urban dwellers
Product Spotlight
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Product Design
The Amphora allows even the busiest people to grow fresh herbs.
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8 Aug 16
Al Hamra is an earth brick farmhouse located away from the buzzing capital of Senegal
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
The architects were faced with the challenge of building a livable home in a seemingly hostile environment.
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10 Feb 16
LIVIN Farm’s Hive lets you grow and farm your own mealworms
Product Spotlight
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Food Design
A desktop hive for the kitchen allows users to feed, farm then eat their own mealworms.
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25 Nov 15
Rural inspiration
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Craft
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Product Design
Chic Revolution's vintage-inspired décor accessories take their cue from farm life.
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27 Feb 11
Protofarm 2050: Multinational Feedback Loop
Do Tank News
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Interaction Design
Futurefarmers explain their Multinational Feedback Loop - recycling and reusing, in order to sustain the cultivation of renewable resources.
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7 Jan 10
Protofarm 2050: Electrocyte Appendix
Do Tank News
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
The Electrocyte Appendix is a human organ for converting blood sugar into electricity.
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15 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: Oogst
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Frank Tjepkema's Oogst is a self-sustaining environment for 1, 100 or 1 000 people.
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15 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: Victory Gardens
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Amy Franceschini explains Futurefarmers's approach to community-based Victory Gardens.
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15 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: Foragers
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Dunne&Raby speculate that people will start using genetic modification to maximize the nutritional value of their surroundings.
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14 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: The Guide To Free Farming
Do Tank News
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
The Guide to Free Farming, by 5.5 designers, is a handbook to sourcing nutrition in the urban environment.
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14 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050
Do Tank News
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Design Indaba commissioned a range of top designers to conceive the ways in which farming will adapt in the future.
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24 Nov 09
Protofarm 2050 in Singapore
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
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Industrial Design
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Interaction Design
“Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announces Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress.
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24 Nov 09
Farm with a view
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Design Thinking
Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms.
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1 Nov 09
Lawn attack
Design News
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Design Thinking
The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape.
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1 Nov 09
Suburban spread
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
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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1 Nov 09
Growth and death
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Design Thinking
Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants.
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1 Nov 09
Farm in a box
Design News
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Design Thinking
The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system.
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1 Nov 09
Functional food
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Design Thinking
Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food.
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1 Nov 09
Mushrooms on the run
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Food Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Agata Jaworska’s In Transit proposes growing mushrooms in the packaging while they are being transported.
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1 Nov 09
Countertop farming
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Domesticated farming options to try in your kitchen.
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2 Oct 09
Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design
Inside View
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Urban & Landscape Design
Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design.
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1 May 08
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