Monday, May 23, 2016

art of bento

Time to Play With Your Food: The Art of Bento

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plant tower

D+DS Architecture developed an apartment building that allows tenants to grow nutritious food year-round using hydroponic methods.

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

More Bompas



While they work to establish a permanent home for the BMoF, B&P do collaborations with established institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as temporary installations. “We’re sort of a moving, roving nomadic museum at the moment,” he says. The latest iteration took place at the Borough Market this winter. It included exhibits like “Be the Bolus,” whereby visitors could experience what it feels like to be a hunk of chewed-off food going along the human digestive track. The cross-modal experience was obtained with a PillCam, and a massage chair that pummeled you up and down as watched the film, so you could feel what it’s like for the bolus. There was also the butterfly gallery that highlighted the fact that butterflies are “some of the unsung heroes of pollination.” The takeaway? “We are trying to think about how to make sustainability really sexy, making people ask questions rather than belaboring them with gloom and doom about the current state of the planet and food security.”

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Monday, May 16, 2016

big bee hives

BGHJ Architects in Charlottetown are designing “bee houses” that look like animated creatures and will stand about 12 feet high that will house four beehives at the Farm Centre.

The beehive project aims to educate Islanders on the importance of honeybees and to bring awareness about their situation.


Some experts say one in every three bites of food we eat is made possible by bees and other pollinators.

The BGHJ firm is interested in the activation of downtown Charlottetown and strengthening the core of city, making it better place to live, said architect Shallyn Murray

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Sunday, May 15, 2016

indoor farming

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With extensive R&D and production collaborations with some of the world’s most reputable names in research, pharmaceuticals and food production, Indoor Harvest maintains a growing design portfolio of Intellectual Property based on our Modular Racking and High Pressure Aeroponics platforms.

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fake food


"Developed especially for children and families, GuixĂ©’s large-scale, custom-designed space will combine the artist’s own graphics with design challenges and hands-on activities for young people that encourage a rethinking of the familiar foods that we eat each day and sprout new ideas for food concepts and flavours."

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