Urban farming and gardening have been gaining momentum by the minute. People are realizing the importance of self-sustenance, especially when it comes to food production and the growth of greenery. Danish architects Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrick Husum have created ‘GrowMore’ in an attempt to encourage such a society. GrowMore is an urban gardening modular design that expands as your plants grow. The modular, open-source system is made entirely out of CNC-milled plywood. The versatile planter can be bolted and unbolted in a variety of configurations, allowing you to maintain mini or larger-than-mini farms and gardens. GrowMore consists of a collection of six individual parts including plywood, shelving and planting units, which are held together by a ‘circular pivotal joint’, that uses M8 bolts in order to create varied designs from the very same parts. “It’s like a Lego system,” said Lindholm “The parts can be rotated vertically and horizontally, so it’s totally flexible. You can really freestyle, and build anything you want.”

Displayed at the Seoul Architecture Biennale, an exhibition of designs created for the cities of the future, GrowMore was designed in such a way that the three-dimensional garden can be built by anyone in the comforts of their own home/town! Anyone with a CNC machine can produce their own plywood pieces and use them to create a structure that best suits their needs. “You can have it indoors or outdoors, you can use it for dividing spaces, or you can use it as a quick way of building up a very airy and transparent space,” said Lindholm. GrowMore aspires to be more than just a modular garden or farm, it promises to be a place of refuge for anyone who is weary of the world and needs a breath of fresh air. An opportunity to connect with nature and grow your own greens? This is something I am sure everybody would be on board with, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw a couple of GrowMores coming up in my own city!

Designers: Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum

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It’s always fun to guess which subversive “ripped from the headlines” DIY Halloween costume will show up at NYC’s annual parade. I think on Thursday you’re going to see at least a few “Hong Kong Protest” outfits.

What would that entail? Since the actual protestors are improvising gear out of household items, most of the props are things you probably already own, or will find useful enough to buy. Here’s our recommended list:

3M Respirator

$12.50

Combination protection against getting gassed and having your face recognized by a CCTV camera. 3M’s tried-and-true half-facepiece 6300 comes in Small, Medium and Large sizes for a comfortable fit.

3M Multi Gas Vapor Cartridge Filter

$22 for a 2-pack

Whether for costume use or actual use, a respirator’s no good without the filters. For hipster-level accuracy, go for this pair of 3M’s 60626 cartridges, which offer protection from “Organic Vapor, Acid Gas, Ammonia, Methylamine, Formaldehyde.” (Those are the closest items we could find to tear gas.)

Steampunk Metal Goggles (with alternative)

$15.99

Costume variety

Real deal

Regular safety glasses don’t offer side protection from pepper spray, so go for these canister-style specs, which seal all around your eyes. (Note that the cheapies in the first image are the costume variety; if you want the real deal for use in your shop, drop $34.95 on the German-made variant that welders use.)

Oven Mitts (with alternative)

$9.88

Oven mitts

Barbecue gloves

This is what the protestors use to pick up those burning-hot tear gas canisters, to throw back at the riot police. (If you want something with more dexterity, i.e. discrete fingers, you can spend $29.99 on these heat-resistant, insulated gloves for barbecuing and grilling.)

Cling Wrap

$3.99

Protestors have been wrapping their arms and bare skin in sandwich wrap, to avoid the irritation caused by pepper spray. With 250 square feet per roll, you’ll have enough to wrap yourself and a bucketful of sandwiches.

Traffic Cone

$16.85

For covering those tear gas canisters, so that you can pour water into the hole to extinguish them. The IRL protestors have been grabbing these off of the streets for free, but if you do that while marching in NYC’s parade, you might catch a beatdown from someone you think is wearing a police costume and who turns out to be an actual cop.

Wok Lid

$14.99

An alternative to the traffic cone, HK protestors have dropped these over tear gas canisters to contain the gas. May or may not be effective at deflecting baton strikes.

Cordless Leaf Blower

$79.00

The latest, most innovative tool in the HK protestor’s arsenal. The leaf blower is used (as we saw here) to blow tear gas away from the canister long enough for one of your compatriots to cover and douse it.

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Whether you’re protesting or parading, stay safe!

Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has launched the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea.

The organisation said the solar-powered system would augment its ongoing efforts to remove marine plastic waste from the oceans.

“To truly rid the oceans of plastic, we need to both clean up the legacy and close the tap, preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place,” said The Ocean Cleanup founder Boyan Slat.

“Combining our ocean cleanup technology with the Interceptor, the solutions now exist to address both sides of the equation.”

Interceptors consist of floating barriers attached to processing plants that resemble barges and are anchored to the river bed. The barriers funnel plastic waste into the mouth of the plant, which is powered by solar panels and operates without the need for human operators.

A conveyor belt separates the waste from the water and moves it up to a shuttle, which automatically dumps the waste into containers on a separate barge docked below.

When the containers are all full, the onboard computer system alerts local partners to bring a boat and tow the barge of plastic waste away for recycling. Each system only spans part of the river, so boats and wildlife can manoeuvre around it.

According to the The Ocean Cleanup, each Interceptor can extract 50,000 kilograms of trash from a river each day, going up to 100,000 kilograms “under optimised conditions”.

The Ocean Cleanup aims to install Interceptors in 1,000 of the world’s most polluted rivers within five years.

According to their research, which includes an interactive map, 80 per cent of the rubbish in the oceans come from just 1 per cent of the world’s rivers.

Two Interceptor systems are already operational in Klang, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia. A third Interceptor will soon be deployed in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, while a fourth is bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Thailand has signed up to get an Interceptor stationed near Bangkok, and The Ocean Cleanup said that it is in talks to have one deployed in LA County in the USA.

The device’s solar panels charge lithium-ion batteries, which allow the plant to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without noise or fumes.

The Ocean Cleanup developed the river systems to compliment its original mission to clear the world’s seas of plastic pollution.

System 001, nicknamed Wilson, is a floating rig designed to collect plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It has suffered several major setbacks, including a fracture in January 2019 that required it to be towed to Hawaii for repairs.

The improved System 001/B has been able to collect some plastic, including pieces as small as one millimetre, The Ocean Cleanup team announced in October. Plastic caught by the rig will be recycled or burnt to generate electricity.

Critics of the project have raised concerns that the system, which received $30 million (£23 million) in funding, is not a viable solution for ridding the oceans of plastic.

Cyrill Gutsch, founder of Parley for the Oceans, has warned that cleaning up all the plastic already in the sea may be an impossible task.

Gutsch, whose organisation has trademarked the term Ocean Plastic to highlight marine pollution, told Dezeen that the focus should be on creating alternatives to plastic.

“I just think we will not get plastic under control,” he said. “And I don’t want to be creating the wrong illusion that we are able to clean up the ocean, because I don’t think we are.”

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Dezeen Day, our international architecture and design conference, is tomorrow! Didn’t manage to get a ticket? Follow along on our Twitter page as we tweet from the event starting at 9am UK time, and join the discussion using #dezeenday.

Our inaugural conference will address the future of cities, materials and education, as well as the circular economy and how to build a successful creative business.

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