Friday, 28 March 2014

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

3D Printed Food Is The Future!?


NASA has given a $125,000 grant to Anjan Contractor to design a system astronauts can use to print food out of sugars, carbs, and proteins.

3D Printers, Future of Food

Future foods: What will we be eating in 20 years' time?

Monday, 17 March 2014

Planned Obsolescence

The cell phone as an agent of social change


Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday lifemore sustainable

Big Question: Feast or famine?


The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment is discovering solutions to Earth's biggest problems, including the big question of how are we going to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?

Saturday, 15 March 2014

meMINI




Every day, we share experiences with family and friends. As we struggle to retell the story to others later, we often regret not having captured it on film somehow. With meMINI, there’s no longer any need for regret… http://kck.st/1lLIaZv

Friday, 14 March 2014

The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers


Americans love hamburgers – we each eat an average of three a week. But what are the hidden costs? It turns out that livestock create about as much greenhouse gas pollution as cars, planes and other forms of transport. They also take a heavy environmental toll on land and water worldwide.

The Economics of Happiness


The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people around the world are resisting those policies – and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Samsara Food Sequence


This clip from SAMSARA showing food production and consumption has been getting a lot of attention!

People Eating Burgers For The First Time In Their Lives

Burger King decided to try to find people around the world who have never been exposed to advertising from either Burger King or McDonalds to see which burger they liked better.

Everyday Surveillance

Emotionally Durable Design - Chapman

HCI & Sustainable Food Culture: A Design Framework for Engagement by Eli Blevis Jaz & Hee-jeong Cho


McDonaldization of Society - Ritzer

Sustainable Food Consumption - Vermeir, Verbeke

"Making Do": Uses and Tactics by Michel de Certeau

Designing for a Safer Future by Victor Papanek

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Saturday, 1 March 2014

Enzo Mari talks about Autoprogettazione


This is a small part of the interview that I have mentioned at the course on Thursday. He talks about his DIY book: Autoprogettazione, and how he aimed to 'educate' people.

Presentation: Design Responsibility, Five Myths and Six Directions by Victor Papanek