by Nicola | Jul 8, 2013
A couple of months ago, Leonardo Amico, an interaction designer based at Fabrica, connected romaine lettuce leaves into an electrical circuit, attached a CMOS logic chip and a couple of oscillators to transform the voltage into tone, and recorded the result. Although... by Nicola | May 11, 2013
“Why are barns red?” is, apparently, the all-time most popular FAQ at The Barn Journal (sadly, no word on what the second most popular might be). A few years ago, design writer Steven Heller dedicated his column in Print magazine to this question. It has... by Nicola | May 7, 2013
At the New York State Department of Conservation’s fyke net in Richmond Creek on Staten Island, nightly glass eel catch totals have tapered off. Further north, in the Bronx River, the annual migration of tiny, translucent baby eels will continue for another... by Nicola | Apr 17, 2013
Back in 2009, speculative designers Dunne & Raby were commissioned by Design Indaba to think about the problem of feeding nine billion people by 2050. They looked at United Nations reports predicting that food demand will increase by seventy percent over the next... by Nicola | Apr 16, 2013
Roadkill cuisine has been making headlines this spring, after the Montana House of Representatives passed a bill (by 99 votes to 1) that allows the state’s motorists to collect and eat the deer, elk, moose, or antelope that was unlucky enough to get in their... by Nicola | Apr 11, 2013
From inner-city food deserts to car-centric suburbs, aspects of the physical environment are frequently cited as a contributing factor to the rise of obesity in the developed world. However, new research, published earlier this year in the International Journal of...