Sarmite Polakova (27) from Latvia attends the Master in Social - TopicsExpress



          

Sarmite Polakova (27) from Latvia attends the Master in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her project for the exhibition ‘Designing Scarcity’ is called ‘Growroad’: “I was inspired by the scarcity of food we have created by replacing gardens with concrete walls. By taking advantage of the ‘geveltuin’ law, building walls have been transformed into vertical gardens providing the citizens of a city with additional source of food. Imagine a city where every house has a garden on its walls. Streets changing their colors according to the season. Have you already seen the tomato house?” Polakova’s ‘gardening walls’ have their historic precursor in the citizen gardens that popped up all over Germany after the Second World War, during great famine, such as in the garden of the burnt-down Reichstag in Berlin.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:30:00 +0000

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