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Traditional Repair Techniques: The Japanese Art of Kintsugi
The Japanese art of Kintsugi, which means ‘golden joinery’ or ‘to patch with gold’, is all about turning ugly breaks into beautiful fixes. Most repairs hide themselves – the goal is usually to make...
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Ceramic Food Steamer With Central Chimney
Steaming food (vegetables as well as fish, meat and rice) is an interesting cooking method, mainly for two reasons: contrary to frying there is no need to use fat, and compared to both frying and...
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How to Keep Beverages Cool Outside the Refrigerator
In the industrialized world, we know only of one way to cool beverages: place containers in refrigerators. This practice, which occurs on a massive scale, is utterly dependent on fossil fuels. However,...
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The Poor Man’s Refrigerator
“A fridge for the common man that does not require electricity and keeps food fresh too. With this basic parameter in mind Mansukhbhai came up with Mitticool, a fridge made of clay. It works on the...
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Self-Watering Planter From Porous Earthenware
Industrial designer Joey Roth developed a self-watering planter for use indoors or out. It is made from porous unglazed earthenware: “Soil and plants are placed in the outer donut-shaped chamber, and...
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Thermal Insulation of Solid-Walls is Underestimated
Oula Lehtinen – CC BY-SA 3.0 Approximately 5.7 million solid-walled houses exist in England, comprising 25% of the housing stock. Most were built between 1750 and 1914. Research shows that their energy...
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