Tag: Composting
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Artistomo
Aristomo combines the English word “artisan,” meaning traditional, skilled workers or products, with the Japanese word “tomo,” meaning together. Joining traditional arts and modern lifestyles. For those looking to live more sustainably and connect with their roots while taking advantage of government incentives to revitalize rural areas, Artistomo provides a harmonious community initiative to protect…
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Motta Booth: Extending Convenience and Limiting Food Waste
Inspired by an immersive three-week course in Japan, motta is a design for a publicly accessible booth that houses surplus, unsold food from grocery and convenience stores, as well as composting organic matter, all to limit food waste. This project falls under UN SDG goal number 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, specifically under target 12.3,…
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Symbiosis with Interiors
This project develops a manifesto with four points of creating sustainable interior design, by evaluating the influence of design interventions on embodied carbon and carbon offset. The interior is designed in a manner that it is a living organism that can respond to its environment, therefore forms a symbiosis with plants and fungi. School of…
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Sustainability on a Roof
This project is targeted towards areas of consumption on Pratt Institute’s campus that are currently linear but can become a circular metabolic system including electricity consumption, use of natural waste and water consumption and also provision of green space. The areas of implementation for this project would be Pratt Institute’s Main Campus specifically the Dining…
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Circularity: Fostering Opportunities Through a Circular Economy in a Live-Work Space
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Pravallika Thirumalasetty Collage of the proposed site with the water and water systems depicted to show the circular nature and distribution of systems vertically through the building. Using watercolor paint, the subtlety of the flow of water waste is depicted through the floors which people populate the building…