R2B2: Electricity is not the answer!

German designer  Christoph Thetard has created, during his studies at the  Bauhaus University Weimar, an electricity free kitchen machine. He called it R2B2. The R2B2 came to life as a result of an eco-friendly project. There are three different kitchen appliances in the R2B2: Coffee grinder, hand blender, & food processor. All are powered by rotating a flywheel with muscular strength. Electricity is not necessary anymore.

The pedal powers the machine up to 400 rpm which produces 350 W energy per 1 minute. The machine even has a storage cabinet for the different items. You can now exercise while cooking and not just that! You are going to cut down on the electricity bill and make a step in saving the environment.

Tree Tape

The tree tape was created  by London-based designer Nitipak Samsen to measure how much CO2 a tree absorbs from the air and comparing the findings with real life activities such as car emission, air plane etc…

Jugaad- Public Art Installation, India



“What happens when a thousand oil cans decide to fly?

Jugaad explored this idea through a celebratory and constantly evolving process of re-purposing and redefining the cooking oil can, a ubiquitous feature of Indian life. The project borrows its namefrom a hindi term which refers to attaining any objective with the available resources at hand. Bycombining this attitude with an open-source, inclusive process, the project took recycling and reuse beyond a simple utilitarian measure into an exciting adventure of defiance and collective will. This journey is the result of a unique engagement with the residents of Rajokri, an urban village on the outskirts of New Delhi in India. Over a period of three months, Sanjeev Shankar used the discarded oil can as a vehicle to explore ideas of sustainability, recycling and re-purposing with 90 other residents from the village. Using grass root ingenuity, Jugaad reincarnated 945 such cans into an incredible free-standing shade canopy spread over 70 square metres. This story celebrates the practice of jugaad and the collective spirit of India and its people.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                sanjeev shankar