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Just Add Water: Grow Your Own Furniture with These Pop-Up Sponge Designs

Just Add Water: Grow Your Own Furniture with These Pop-Up Sponge Designs

A team of industrial designers prototyped a furniture collection that dramatically transforms from flat sheets into fully functional objects, no tools required.
Taking Gaetano Pesce’s spectacular “Up 5” chair as a starting point, Under Pressure Solutions (UPS) is an experimental research project helmed by industrial designers and ÉCAL teachers Camille Blin, Christophe Guberan, Anthony Guex, Chris Kabel, and Julie Richoz. The team recognized the rampant demand for online commerce and subsequent shipping processes that, for furniture, was often cumbersome, expensive, and wasteful given the size and bulk of the products. More
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Climate Action Accelerated by Women Engineers

Climate Action Accelerated by Women Engineers

This post was originally published on UNDPClimate Action Accelerated by Women Engineers admin Wed, 04/24/2024 – 07:17 Felizita Da Conceciao Mendoza, 23-year-old, is an engineering student learning in a programme “Safeguarding Rural Communities and their Physical...
Grasslands 101: Everything You Need to Know

Grasslands 101: Everything You Need to Know

Quick Key Facts What Are ‘Grasslands’? Grasslands — also known as savannas, prairies, steppes and pampas — are ecosystems found in parts of the world that do not get sufficient consistent rainfall to support forest growth, but get enough to avoid the landscape turning into desert. Often, grasslands are a transition ecosystem between deserts and […]
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