‘Transformer’ rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes The Ori ‘Cloud Bed’ is lifted and lowered from a ceiling recess to create space that doubles as bedroom and living room. Ori/YouTube (screengrab) Christian Tietz, UNSW Sydney With two-thirds of a global population of 9.4 billion people expected to live in urban areas by 2050, we can expect a...
Eco-friendly tech comes with its own environmental costs: that’s why it’s vital to cut energy demand now Mining and extracting metals has ecologically damaging consequences. Shutterstock Timothy Laing, University of Brighton If we want to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 or even 2℃, we’ll need a monumental shift in how our energy and transport systems work. The International Energy Agency...
Future cities could be 3D printed – using concrete made with recycled glass Matjazz/Shutterstock Seyed Ghaffar, Brunel University London; Mehdi Chougan, Brunel University London, and Pawel Sikora 3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the centuries-old...
If I could go anywhere: Japanese art island Chichu, a meditation and an education Time/Timeless/No Time (2004) by Walter De Maria. Todd Lappin/Flickr, CC BY-NC Julian Meyrick, Griffith University In this series we pay tribute to the art we wish could visit — and hope to see once travel restrictions are lifted. The Chichu Art Museum is located on the tiny island of Naoshima, off the southern coast of...
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