Urban gardens: Mini vertical gardens for Balcony, Patio or Kitchen
What?
This "Do-it-yourself" minigarden’s contemporary design is a fresh take on vertical gardening for patios, decks, rooftops, and even for surrounding windows or covering an unsightly fence.
In an eco-friendly way, minigarden conserves water as its unique design reduces evaporation keeping compost moist. The drainage system directs excess water to the base of the installation to prevent the plants in the bottom tier from being overwatered.
Why?
With different kinds of kits, every places can be greening-itself in an autonomous way, making possible to have fresh air but also fresh vegetables available every day.
Found on Urban gardens Website
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Solar Kitchen
Who?
Designer Ben Hedrick
What?
To built your own solar kitchen with some really cheap materials and in a easy way.
Why?
You just need time and be pacient! Mediamatic Fabriek would offer them to the visitors on the sunny days to cook and enjoy the experience outside the building.
Contact:
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Topic-eau : Isabelle Daeron
Who?
Isabelle Daeron is a newly french designer who thinks about the typology of objects or spaces characterised by their self-organising capacity, which occurs in response to conditions that they find themselves in.
What?
Topique-eau is a drinking water dispenser that harvests and filters rain water. It is an autonomous object that reconnects people to environment. Topique-eau integrates the characteristics of the place (pluviometry, tree, streetlight, building) in order to offer drinking water to city dwellers. Topique-eau is a sign which appeals to city dwellers : it tells the story of the transformation process of a ressource: from its harvesting and its storing to its filtering, upon which it becomes drinkable water for users of public spaces.
Why?
Mediamatic Fabriek can use its specific environmental characteristics to provide drinkable water to visitors.
Ekokook
Who?
The Faltazi are designers, of the industrial kind, but committed to ecology and society.
What?
Ekokook has opted for global eco-design for the kitchen, one that integrates new functions and behaviour patterns.
The project is based on four essentials: waste management, kitchen health, reduction/consumption of energy, and intelligent storage. This kitchen has built-in fittings for selecting, processing and storing all kinds of wastes: organic, solid and liquid. As well, the alternatives for conserving and cooking that it proposes target a more healthy cuisine, one that uses fresh products raised locally, which are stored in bulk.
Why?
A sustainable kitchen will have an huge impact on every day life for those using it.
Found on Ekokook
Definition of the ideal kitchen
Flow kitchen minimizes waste, maximizes sustainability
Who?
Oregon-based Studio Gorm has created a complete kitchen in which energy is conserved and cooking waste is recycled and used to grow plants.
What?
Dubbed the flow kitchen, the design successfully integrates nature and technology into a system where drying dishes helps water plants and composting food waste helps to fertilize them.
Why?
For a life circle in every day life.
Found on Inhabitat
VertiCrop
Who?
What?
The VertiCrop founds a way to grow food naturally in bustling urban environments and represents a paradigm shift in farming and food production. Providing up to 20 times the yield of normal field crops, while using only 8% of the water typically required for soil farming.
Why?
Growing better quality food using less energy and resources.
The Dumpling Express
Moving solar kitchen - Image found on Inteligencias Colectivas' website.
Who?
The architect group Something Fantastic
What?
The Dumpling Express is a solar fueled, mobile dumpling cooker envisioned by Something Fantastic as a propagandistic ruse within the cityscape creating desire for a modern way of cooking and a more lively street scene.
Why?
It enables you to cook food without using fossile fuels, coal or even electricity.