I’m All Packed and Ready to Grow

November 27, 2009

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Talk about having baggage. But this is the good kind–the bringing of your own personal and cultural gardening personality with you wherever you go.

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Gionatta Gatto, of the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Project, has unveiled Urban Buds, a design project, according to the creator, “on the theme of urban agriculture and cultural comunication in the context of public spaces.”

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Using the suitcase as a metaphor for our individual cultural backgrounds, Gatto has seeded and planted these moveable planters with about thirty-six different plants, each growing vertically along the fabric. The project is intended to fill vacant spaces with vegetable gardens while inspiring socialization by cultivating new relationships among gardeners.

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UrbanBuds-veggies

via Inhabitat

4 Comments »

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