Urban Gardens

Designer Libero Rutilo has created an inspiring collection of design vases combining upcycling and 3D printing technology. The project gives a second life to the empty PET bottle, which would be otherwise end up in a landfill.

The Spider Vase… Read More...

With the snap of the finger and the blink of an eye, another year comes to an end. What were a few of your favorite things? These ten blog posts apparently.

Here’s a glimpse of what your Urban Gardens community … Read More...

As a lover of sustainable design, gardening, and environmentally friendly practices, I am always excited about projects that aim to reducing landfill by recycling, repurposing, and upcycling trash into useful and decorative wares. 

Anu Tandon Vieira from The Retyrement Plan… Read More...

“The world sends us garbage, we send back music.” In the barrios of Paraguay, there is a youth orchestra whose musical instruments are made exclusively from the trash of the local landfill.

Cateura, Paraguay is built on top of a … Read More...

Florian Rivière, Wheelbench, Vienna, September 2012

You might call Florian Rivière a guerrilla urbanist. Much in the way guerrilla gardeners take possession of underutilized, sometimes offbeat, public spaces to plant gardens, Rivière–a self-proclaimed “urban hacktivist”– reinvents and diverts public spaces … Read More...