Dai Haifei, a 25 year old Chinese architect, couldn’t afford Beijing’s sky-high rents, and decided to design and built his own. The 2 meter high house is built from bamboo, bags and grass, and cost just Euro 700,=. Pretty cool project!
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The Urban Speaker
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A nice urban art installation: a public speaker hooked up to a smartphone you can dial into, and lets you broadcast a message. The artist, Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena, callls it “urban furniture”. I like it!
Urban ‘Warfare’: Seed Bombing!
It’s not new but it’s suddenly gaining new ground (pun unintended!) in cities across the globe.
A number of eco-warriors are waging war against neglected lots in cities, and their choice of weapon is a little Seed Bomb – a little pod of packed soil containing live seeds of flowering or easy-growing plants that can literally be littered onto derelict un-concreted land in the hope that they will take root and create a Guerilla Garden where there was only dirt before.