Barcelona Design Week 2010: Designs For Dementia Make It Easier To Eat (Photos)
October 21, 2010 No Comment
Plate with high-lipped profile helps push food onto the spoon. Image Credit: “Design for Dementia”, Gregor Timlin & Nic Rysenbry, Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre Around 700,000 people in the UK have dementia, over a third of which live in care homes, according to the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre which focuses on people-centered design research. Eating and drinking, getting dressed and other daily actions become a critical issue when people are affected by dementia (a serious loss of cognitive ability). Independence… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: ponyfire Bioneers , the green conference held in San Rafael, California, covers topics that have been marginalized in the past: youth, women, indigenous cultures and even psychedelic drugs. I surprisingly found myself in a session on the current state of psychedelic research. Many other conferences wouldn’t touch this topic with a ten foot pole, and normally the word psychedelic conjures up (for me) unpleasant images of Haight Ashbury and tie dye, but neither of these images came up. The talk focused instead on the results of recent studies,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Measuring Fashion’s Environmental Footprint with Summer Rayne Oakes (Video)
October 21, 2010 No Comment
Sourcing sustainable textiles at Source4Style. Photo: Source4Style As I wrote earlier this month , sourcing textiles can be difficult for fashion and interior designers–and sustainable textiles, even more so. This week in New York City, Source4Style co-founders Summer Rayne Oakes and Benita Singh hosted the inaugural
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Photo: B. Alter You have to love the Romans: they promenade stylishly down their glorious streets, they park their Smart cars on the sidewalks, and now they have bicycle-sharing. Sort of…. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If Mother Nature had a bank account, she would be one wealthy lady — at least that’s according to a report released today on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). In hopes of countering the notion that environmental systems are literally priceless — that is to say, without an agreed upon monetary value — the 10th … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: Gülnur Özdağlar Plastic bottles — that environmental bane of a disposable, modern society — can be both an abundant form of pollution in waterways and oceans , as well as a materials source for mind-boggling art. In the skillful… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If you’re looking to spruce up your home with the hottest sustainable, responsibly made products (or if you just want to see some eco eye candy) check out our picks for the latest and greatest green home wares . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Leveraged Freedom Chair. Image Credit: MIT Mobility Lab At today’s lecture “Facing New Challenges Through Design” as part of Barcelona Design Week , I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab , presented by Victor Grau Serrat from MIT in Boston. Grau gave an inspiring talk about how design and creativity can lift people out of poverty, mainly by co-designing and similar to
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DIY Robot Halloween Costume. Photo: Uriel 1998 / CC Enjoy the process of creative reuse and take your DIY Halloween costume to the next level by making it from materials you already own. From a larger than life Gordon Gekko-esque cell phone, circa 1987, to a roller coaster car with an extra pair of legs, we rounded up five wacky
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Sometimes the simplest dishes with clear flavours are the best. This pasta sauce was tangy and piquant with a little bit of heat. My only complaint was that I hadn’t made more pasta than I did. It was an altogether satisfying dish…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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