Rianne Koens is a fresh designer who just gratuaded from the design academy in Eindhoven. One of her concepts ‘schillenpracht’ is very interesting and smart! A beautiful range of products that help you turn your fruit peels into functional ingredients to flavour up your cookings!  Besides it’s a really nice and functional way to downsize …

STAY ALIVE IN 25 >> GROUP 5 >> GO TRANSNATURAL! Michael Pieters, Wencke Nilsson and Muruschka Kartosonto think our future can be saved by incorporating the beauty and power of nature in our culture. We should not only live eco-friendly and be aware of what damage we do to our planet. We should respect the …

STAY ALIVE IN 25 >> GROUP 5 >> GO TRANSNATURAL! Michael Pieters, Wencke Nilsson and Muruschka Kartosonto think our future can be saved by incorporating the beauty and power of nature in our culture. We should not only live eco-friendly and be aware of what damage we do to our planet. We should respect the …

STAY ALIVE IN 25 >> GROUP 5 >> GO TRANSNATURAL! Michael Pieters, Wencke Nilsson and Muruschka Kartosonto think our future can be saved by incorporating the beauty and power of nature in our culture. We should not only live eco-friendly and be aware of what damage we do to our planet. We should respect the …

  On the website: Designboom an very interesting article about an almost completely self sufficient kitchen. The microbial home is designed by Philips and was presented at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven! Enjoy! For the original article, click here.   The ‘microbial home’ by philips design is a concept home design that adopts a systemic approach …

Two research groups at london’s cambridge university– the ‘engineering and physical sciences research council’ (EPSRC)  and the ‘design in science‘ project– have come together to create a table, alongside a series of product concepts, that integrates biophotovoltaic (BPV) technology. BVP devices generate renewable energy through the photosynthetic processes of living organisms such as algae and …

Two design students from Denmark have put together a raincoat that doubles as a personal drinking water collector. You might think, jikes, drinking rainwater? But the unusual looking Raincatch coat purifies rain drops by passing it through a charcoal filter which can eliminate harmful pollutants, chemicals and debris, so it’s totally save. The drinkable water …

Here a pretty cool idea by Spanish designer Martin Azua. He has come up with the idea of a mortuary urn containing the seed of a tree. Bios Urn is made from biodegradable materials including coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose. Once the ashes have been placed and the urn planted, the seed inside starts …

Since one year I have a big roofterras in the middle of Rotterdam and we also created a litlle rooffarm. Since spring we’ve already eaten homegrown lettuce, paprika, red chilli peppers, lot’s of herbs and our tomato’s, onions, aubergines, grapes and strawberries will soon be ready to eat! Now farming is a lot easier when …