While one of Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (aka Hehe)’s previous work Pink Noise induced a reflection on […]
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The fuselage is the only part of a decommissioned airplane that cannot be effectively recycled. The cost of […]
A bit similar to Harmut Stockter’s Plant Backpack, the EarthMan is a self-contained, self-sustaining bio-environment survival suit featuring […]
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The Soil Sampling Shoes are part of a larger project, Gardening Superfund Sites. They attempt to covertly take […]
Foster and Partners‘ Philology Library in Berlin utilizes decades of research into the use of active and passive […]
Photosynthesis Robot, by Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine of Futurefarmers, is a possible perpetual motion machine driven by […]
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Mass housing in China has historically been standardized and repetitive. Steven Holl Architects‘ Linked Hybrid project in Beijing […]
Random Screen is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not rely on any electricity. Each of the […]
Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robb’s SweaterLodge envisions a future where daily objects become multifunctional: a sweater becomes a […]
Lance Hosey, of Atmo, and Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin, of the Living, are working toward a similar […]
Micro Dwellings are low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and […]
Scientists at the US Minerals Management Service have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are […]
The Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp generates power each time a car drives over its metal plates. The plates move […]
The Green Roof Water Recycling System (GROW) is a vegetated rooftop recycling system that uses plants to treat […]
Fritz Haeg is unleashing an attack on the American lawn, this “carpet of conformity.” Over the next three […]
Lintec is marketing in Japan solar-powered traffic signs that have no electric wiring and consume no electricity. The […]
The Interactive Institute has unveiled new STATIC! prototypes that explore how everyday products might be designed to better […]
The Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator facility hosts a “cloud simulator”, a huge tower with all the instruments […]
For more than 30 years the 980 people living on the Carteret atolls have battled the Pacific to […]
Aerial thermal imaging is being used to record heat loss from residential properties, enabling councils to pinpoint energy […]
Grimshaw architects (the team behind the Eden Project in Cornwall, pictured below) are planning to turn a Lancashire […]
robot clothes‘ Wildflower Meadow Glacier is an autonomous robotic sculpture that plants flowers and monitors local climate change […]
Lancaster University in the UK is working on an irrigation system, which would let growers know when their […]
Cape Farewell Project leads expeditions with artists, scientists, and journalists, in hopes of creating more environmental awareness and […]
Airline passengers of the future will have to do without window seats and fly in “batwingâ€? aircraft as […]
You Say Potatoe, I say Potato. In this study of the sonic properties of Genetically Modified potatoes, two […]
Growable Media Design: Integrating Plants and Digital Media for Information Visualization is an ambient media project designed to […]
Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh is proposing a fleet of yachts that sprays water droplets into […]
FRUIT aims to investigate the agriculture which feeds urban dwellers, elevate the ecological knowledge of consumers and encourage […]
The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a […]
Plastic will survive forever in landfill, or, if it is burnt, it can release toxic and carcinogenic particles […]
An eco-friendly Japanese project that can extend the lives of aging buildings won the Bronze Award in the […]
London dwellers will be able to summon driverless buses to their front doors and be taken direct to […]
Another one seen at 100%design. To raise awareness of energy efficiency, designer Tom Goodfellow has created the Wax […]
The sun will keep London’s bus stops lit throughout the night thanks a new solar power system being […]
Metropolis Next Generation finalists have designed products that could improve access to safe drinking water among disaster-affected populations. […]
Manchester University is testing a wave energy device that uses the “bobbing” effect of water to produce more […]
Within the next couple of years over 1500 oil-, gas- and acid tanks will be removed from the […]
The aim of the Public Air Quality Indicator project is to make existing information on air quality and […]
A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a power-generating backpack. Dubbed “Suspended-load Backpack”, the device converts […]