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innovation Archive
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Organic Growth, Summer Pavilion on Governors Island 2015 by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects
FIGMENT, the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) have hosted since 2010 a competition to […]
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Blue Freedom: a portable hydropower plant
Blue Freedom is an electrical generator that produces portable energy to charge any electric devices using the power of flowing water. The electric […]
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Shipping containers market in Toronto
Shipping containers recycled into entrepreneurs’ stalls of a street market in Toronto. LGA Architectural Partners has developed a project to […]
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TED Talks: “Your cloudmachines”. Creating atmospheres and trapping clouds with Rafael Beneytez
Rafael Beneytez stresses the importance of atmospheres in architecture. Thus began to put emphasis eternal architectural discussion between gravity and […]
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Agronautas: exploring relationships between people and rural
Agronautas is a multidisciplinary project that addresses the relationship between people and the countryside. Through activities such as workshops, interviews […]
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VAN GOGH PATH by Studio Roosegaard
“The goal is to make smart roads by using light, energy and road signs that interact with the traffic situation. […]
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Cleaning the oceans – Boyan Slat
“Boyan Slat is a 20-year-old on a mission – to rid the world’s oceans of floating plastic. He has dedicated […]
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Ele Solar Bike, a solar bicycle
Ele is a solar bicycle desgined by Mojtaba Raeisi with solar panels on its wheels that rotate 30 degrees on both […]
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CAT-Centre for Alternative Technology
“CAT is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. It covers all aspects of green living: environmental […]
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MIT: “Progress on a Powerful New Way to Generate Electricity”
“Kevin Bullis explains how a powerful new way to generate electricity could eventually make electric cars and electronic gadgets run […]
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Tectonic Landscape: geometrical experimentation with recycled pallets
“Tectonic Landscape is the artificial landscape fit to the exhibition space(Umi Hall) at Daegu Art Museum. The project represents a […]
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The Factory: a walk through Ricardo Bofill’s house
We published two years ago in this post a photo essay about the magnificent rehabilitation of abandoned cement factory which Ricardo Bofill […]
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The reconstruction of a decommissioned Italian highway
‘Slow Uprising’ is a proposal by Ja Studio Inc which transforms an existing Italian highway into a sustainable city. “A region of southern […]
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Wind and Water Bar. Natural cooling in natural environments
This particular bar is solved from a landscape perspective and another energetic. In a natural environment as carefully as you […]
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Weaving the street: Crochet umbrellas creates city
Weaving Street is open to participation project. A production process is performed during the year complete with an installation of […]
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Battery made of sand
“Beach sand can be used to make lithium-ion batteries that last three times longer than current models.” “This is the […]
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DIY: build your own bicycle with Bamboobee Bike Kit
“The project allows you to experience the satisfaction of building your own vehicle from scratch. The set includes bicycle cable […]
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Energy with your footsteps
“A world leader in the field of energy gathering tread, Pavegen, develops and manufactures ground technology that converts kinetic energy […]
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Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia – TED Talk
“Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying […]
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SolarLeaf. Algae bio-reactive facade
“Unveiled in a pilot project at the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Hamburg in 2013, the world´s first bio-reactive façade generates renewable energy […]
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A journey around Copenhagen’s bicycle innovations
This tour shows the latest bicycle innovations in Copenhagen: a wonderful new bridge (the Cycle Snake); the Green Wave, where cyclists going […]
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Moss FM by Fabienne Felder
“Moss FM is the world’s first plant-powered radio, and the first working moss-powered object requiring more electricity than an LCD. […]
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Brick of hexagonal cell. New geometries against noise
“A new prototype brick hexagonal cells, developed by researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, has been honored and awarded […]
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Sensordrone
“A portable & wearable tricorder like multisensor that turns your smartphone into a super environmental monitor.” “The Sensordrone is a […]
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Let’s paint the world’s ugliest city
“With the project Couleurs Carolo, the Dutch company AkzoNobel aims to support the Belgian city of Charleroi to become a […]
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Geometric Beehive sculptures by Ren Ri.
” The Beijing-based artist and beekeeper Ren Ri is a focused man. His new three-part series — titled “Yuansu” in reference […]
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Guerrilla Gardening: green up your neighborhood
“The term guerrilla gardening might scare off some people, but the practice has a long history of both radical and community-building […]
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“In Praise of Air” by Simon Armitage and Tony Ryan
“A scientist and an award winning poet, both at the University of Sheffield, have made a giant poster that uses […]
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El Hierro, the first self-sufficient island thanks to the renewable energies
“El Hierro, the spanish island the smallest of the Canary Islands, with just 10,000 residents is about to do […]
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ABOUT WOMEN AND SUSTAINABILITY
[By Julia Cervantes Corazzina] More than green has been collecting hundreds of works which define ways of transforming the reality […]
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DIY: designing vertical gardens for tiny spaces
There are a lot of brilliant ways to take full advantage of small spaces in your garden: the key is […]
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“ALGAETECTURE: algae systems to design and feed the city” by ecoLogicStudio
ALGAETECTURE FOR EXPO 2015: Algae systems to design and feed the city. Algae is the seemingly unlikely term that is being […]
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The “Energy Independent School” of Kaštela
“The Energy Cooperative Kaštela wants to encourage people in their community to start using renewable energy sources. The primary school […]
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“Sharing the World’s Resources” by Adam Parsons
“Campaigning for a fairer sharing of wealth, power and resources within and between nations.” “Humanity urgently needs to move beyond […]
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Ivanpah: The world’s largest solar plant
“The world’s largest solar plant started creating electricity last February. “The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is now operational and […]
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The new Vending Machine designed by Luke Saunders
“When 27-year-old Luke Saunders told his former boss he was turning down a substantial raise and promotion to create a […]
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Latin America’s Biggest Solar Farm
‘Just a few weeks ago the world’s largest solar thermal power plant switched online in Nevada, and now the largest […]
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“Overpopulated” – BBC Documentary by Hans Rosling
“Using state-of-the-art 3D graphics and the timing of a stand-up comedian, world-famous statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a spectacular portrait […]
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“Mill Junction” hotel
“Mill Junction provides students with a unique living space in the heart of Newtown. To produce this world first, Citiq […]
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Hyper Filter Skyscraper by Umarov Alexey
“This extraordinary Hyper Filter Skyscraper was designed to inhale carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and exhale oxygen. This biomimetic […]
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Recharging Station for the Xkuty One Electric Bike
‘One year after Electric Mobility Company (EMC) unveiled the Xkuty One electric bike in Spain, the company has now developed […]
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“Makoko floating school” by NLÉ in Nigeria
“The study of architecture and urbanism NLE, with offices in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Lagos (Nigeria), constructs a prototype of a […]
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OuiShare
“OuiShare is a collaborative economy project and was born as an experiment of collaborative organization. As laid down in our […]
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‘Renovated Billboards’, an innovative urban and advertising intervention
While advertise products are supposed to make our homes look prettier, badly designed billboard ads make buildings and sometimes entire […]
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“Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore” TED TALK
“Most of us want to do the right thing when it comes to the environment. But things aren’t as simple […]
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String Sculptures by Janet Echelman
“Janet Echelman creates incredible hovering string sculptures by using traditional net-weaving techniques to transform simple spools of thread. Her beautiful […]
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Crisis: the opportunity for sustainable innovation.
[by Julia Cervantes Corazzina] Europe is going through one of the worst moments of its economical history: high levels of […]
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“More Than Half of Kenya’s Electricity Will Come From Solar Power by 2016” Inhabitat
“Kenya recently laid out an ambitious plans to construct nine solar power plants at a cost of $1.2 billion, with […]
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Reinventing solar cooking: GoSun Stove
The most of the solar cooking work pretty much in the same way. There are also a lot of evacuated […]
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Space debris is becoming an increasingly widespread concern – GMV
“In recent years there has been a growing concern about space debris as proliferation poses increasing peril for today’s orbiting […]
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The building with the highest certified BREEAM of sostenibility: zero carbon and zero energy
‘BREEAM, the certification system for sustainable building, has certified the first building of maximum sustainability in the world. Where? in […]
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Copenhagen Wheel -MIT-
It’s an urban bike device designed in MIT. “Transform your bike and transform your city.” “Smart, responsive and elegant, the […]
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Halo. Passive home
‘HALO is a social and environmentally conscious home built for students by students. Designed by 25 scholars from Chalmers University […]
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Toni Griffin: A new vision for rebuilding Detroit
“Once the powerhouse of America’s industrial might, Detroit is more recently known in the popular imagination as a fabulous ruin, […]
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DRINKING WATER OUT OF AIR
“A billboard that can capture this humidity and turn it into potable drinking water” “According to the UN, about 60% […]
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Forest Symphony by Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Imagine being able to watch and listen to the process of photosynthesis. After the massive earthquake that shook Japan in […]
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Equal
‘A new eco-friendly vehicle from Absolute Design could make independent, low-emission transportation possible for people who utilize a wheelchair. Most […]
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Biolace by Carole Collet
“Biolace is a speculative design-led research project that investigates the intersection of synthetic biology and textile design to propose future […]
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Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
“Long before sustainability became a buzzword, architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically-sound building materials such as cardboard […]
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Vertical forest
‘Vertical Forest is the project of two residential towers designed as part of the rehabilitation of the historic district of […]
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Dogbir
“The Dogbir generator is a vertical axis mini-wind turbine with concentric rotor that can be divided into two parts so […]
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Hundreds of Vacant Lots to Become World’s Largest Urban Farm in Detroit
‘Hundreds of vacant lots in Detroit, Michigan will soon be transformed into the world’s largest urban farm. Governor Rick Snyder […]
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Tom Heap discovers landfill mining-BBC radio
“Finding value in what’s been thrown away. He visits Belgium to meet the first prospectors digging for treasure in trash. For […]
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Recycled Pallets Pavilion / Avatar Architettura
‘Avatar Architettura is a multidisciplinary Italian office architecture and industrial design founded in 2001 by Nicola Santini and Pier Paolo […]