Check out this cardboard bedroom setting. Sure would be helpful if you're the kind to move house regularly!
Collapsable, recyclable, movable furniture
My Idol
Saul Griffiths has been my idol for years. Australian born, working in America, Saul spends his time inventing sustainable technologies and helping the community get involved.
Check out his invention for continuous, low cost renewable wind energy.
And Instructables, the amazing DIY project sharing website Griffiths launched.
http://www.instructables.com/
Biomimicry - The proof is in the pudding
Janine Benyus makes an inspiring speech about drawing inspiration from natures perfected natural systems to design sustainable and efficient products.
Service-based design for sustainability
Ezio Manzini is a leader in design theory. This is an article that has provided me with immeasurable inspiration about consumption patterns. Manzini studies how shifting from a product-based system to a service-based system may increase customer satisfaction and provide new opportunity for integration of sustainable technologies
Amazing nomadic housing
"Comprised of a structural woven fabric that “blurs the distinction between structure and fabric,” the shelter expands to create a private enclosure and contracts “for mobility.” It also comes with some fundamental amenities required by modern people, including water and renewable electricity"
Dress for social transparency
For once technology is encouraging real and basic human communication rather than encouraging people to communicate under a ruse of social perfection.
Scientist debunks nomadic Aborigine 'myth'
"Australia's indigenous peoples lived in houses and villages, and used surprisingly sophisticated architecture and design methods to build their shelters"
