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A self-sufficient city? Many people were sceptical when we started designing and creating edible landscapes that build relationships between people and wildlife. But a few private homes and a "food park" later perceptions shifted, and obstacles became possibilities! It's possible to create multifunctional urban landscapes that reframe cities. Abundance - of wildlife and food - is just a shift in perception away. All we need is to help nature tell its own story, and the shift will follow!

Green Cash is a company that offers cash back through its apps for Android and IOS for customers who return the packaging of products purchased at partner supermarkets. The cashback can be used to make any purchase or to acquire exclusive benefits from our partner companies.

Architecture can play a big role in improving our society; this thought has guided us during the long and twisty journey that led to the design of Articolo32. This project wanted to have have a fast and widespread impact in our cities by helping to solve an increasing problem: how to provide healt and social assisstence to those who are unable to access the canonical services. The design is divided in two parts: a strategy that can be applied in different contexts and an application of it.

Fungi, in their controversial cultural and biological role, become mediators in an interspecies shift in fashion design practices. Their growing application for industrial experimentation, art, visual communication, and literature, mark an ontological turn. They symbolise the possibility to reconfigure the ecosystemic balance in today’s dangerously anthropized world. Capable to overcome issues linked to sustainable production, consumption, and to guide towards a renewed human-non-human bound.

My personal interpretation of Post-Post-Modernism aims to connect the materiality and emotionality of primitive, ancient and traditional architecture with the dynamics of contemporary buildings. A novel type of monolithic aesthetics is developed that belongs neither to the past, nor to the present, nor to the future and is therefore timeless.

Roofscapes transforms untapped pitched roofs into green and accessible spaces as a way to mitigate urban heat islands, anchor biodiversity, catch storm water, and provide new outdoor spaces in European city centres. Thanks to prefabricated timber modules and without demolishing existing buildings, Roofscapes helps European cities adapt to our century’s social and environmental challenges.

Do you want to have access to affordable housing regardless of your social status and identity? Do you want to be more circular and have less impact on the environment while saving money? MyChain is here to help you! You can now join housing projects, create your own chain of community, propose ideas for the improvement of your living environment, vote for the proposals, gain and exchange tokens, share your goods, and more!

30 million mattresses end up as waste in Europe every year. At MATR, we decided it is time to put this huge waste problem to bed and make sleep matter. We have created the first circular economy mattress solution for hotels, featuring a premium mattress made from just 2 high quality materials, a unique service model and flexible financing. MATR mattresses never end up as waste and always go back into the material cycle, resulting in a carbon footprint 50% less than conventional mattresses.

to tackle the climate crisis, we sometimes wish for huge co2 reservoirs.
but the thing is, they do already exist; wetlands. they can store twice as much co2 as all the forests put together, but throughout the years humans drained 95% of wetlands in order to mine peat and use it as soil to grow vegtables on. there is a quite simple solution;
paludiculture (wet agriculture) of peat moss, a renewable substitute for peat. and this is where peet comes in: the autonomous farming robot for peat moss.

Ecoccon is a case study on ecocentric creative space design aiming to optimise the experience for creators in comparison to conventional non-environment room. Incorporating local artisan craftsmanship pairing up with scientific research, it will set an example to cultivate multi-disciplinary projects / serendipity in the art and science field.