Tag: Waste Reduction
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New York Botanic Garden Oasis
NYBG Oasis offers urban dwellers an eco-friendly gardening experience, fostering green spaces in the concrete environment of New York. The kit, crafted from recycled materials, includes biodegradable seed cards and compacted soil promoting plant growth and biodiversity. The wooden box, sourced from sustainable forests, doubles as a reusable planter, contributing to waste reduction and recycling,…
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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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TuneIn:52/17
To promote sustainability, it’s crucial to remember that there are no fully sustainable materials. As such, we should focus on developing solutions that align with users’ needs and values. This approach was exemplified in this project that replaced a physical object with a simple Spotify playlist, which encouraged healthy behaviors such as reducing eye strain.…
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Tomato’s Home
Tomatoes are a favorite fruit in Africa but are also a waste problem. This is particularly true in, Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa with the highest percentage of tomato waste. This waste can be greatly reduced by using interior design strategies in the post-harvest stage. School of Design | Graduate Interior Design Students:…
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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…