Washington DC-based Compost Cab is a soon to-be-launched initiative that engages busy urbanites with the phenomenon of composting. Most of the urban dwellers lack expansive yards,…
Posted in Society | Also tagged compost, composting, ecology, farming, green, organic, service, sustainable, urban farming, washington dc, waste |
Yesterday NOTCOT talked about the Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck that dropped by during the Architizer launch party at the A+D Museum in…
Posted in Headline | Also tagged Architecture, design, event, flexible, ice cream, internet, la, los angeles, mobile, moveable, public space, retail, social media, transportable, truck, vending |
‘Feeding the Senses’ is an interesting novelty in the field of food future. Before we’ve been talking about Philips’ food explorations and instant food installations, such as the…
Yesterday I speculated about the potential of 3D printers as future consumer products, as well as its possible societal and economic consequences. in the world of food we…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged 3d, 3d printing, city, consumer, consumerism, dutch, future, material, Technology, transport |
Will 2010 become a 3D year, with a massive launch of 3D movies, 3D HD televisions, Augmented Reality applications, and printing of 3D objects? An intriguing series of 3D printing…
Posted in Headline, Theory | Also tagged 3d, 3d printing, city, consumer, consumerism, dutch, future, material, Technology, transport |
The iPhone app Pizza Hut has launched to order and get meals delivered is nice. But even more incredible is the story of Mumbai’s hot lunch…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged culture, dabbawalla, delivery, distribution, logistics, lunch, management, metropolis, mumbai, network, subway, train |
Architecture office Van Bergen Kolpa and the researchers of Alterra propose to redesign the Dutch landscape as a supermarket. For ages the…
Posted in Headline, Theory | Also tagged agriculture, design, future, global warming, landscape design, landscaping, recreation, rotterdam, the hague, the netherlands |
Philips is busy rolling out interesting new concepts related to the future of food production. Their so-called Biotower is such an idea. This new kitchen installation…
UK-based designer James Reynolds recently came up with a brilliant idea to make consumers aware of the origin of their supermarket food by letting them directly…
In the Berlin district of Friedrichshain I came across this ‘Bratwurst’ selling girl close to train/subway station Frankfurter Allee. Observing her for a couple of minutes, her business seemed…
Matt Brown, a student Interaction Design at the Swedish Umeå Institute of Design, is the guy behind the project ‘Food and the Future of…
As people get more flexible, food has to come after them. Mobile food concepts increase in popularity. Recently all sorts of flexible food concepts had a tasty show…
A logic result of the current urban farming trend is making the good old farm fit with the urban structure. Different architects and city planners around the world are playing…
On a local scale, social software supports trading within a community. An example is VeggieTrader, the online marketplace for backyard food. We blogged about that last…
