Greenaid Installs Seedbomb Vending Machines to Beautify Our Cities
Posted By D. Phillips On March 19, 2010 @ 5:00 pm In Botanical,Gardening,social design | 2 Comments
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Inhabitat reader dnl.phillips [5] tells us about his Greenaid [6] project, which installs “Seedbomb [7]” vending machines in urban spaces to enable average city dwellers to become modern day Johnny Appleseeds. By appropriating quarter-operated candy machines for distribution of these vegetal concoctions, the Greenaid project attempts to temporarily reclaim and transform neglected urban sites [8] into spaces worth looking at and caring for.
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Greenaid [6] machines can be strategically placed at various sites across any urban area and filled with micro-seedbombs [10] specially formulated for a specific locale or context. The project is equally an interactive public awareness campaign, and a fundraising tool for grass roots action that engages directly yet casually with local residents to both reveal and remedy issues of spatial inequity in their community.
Commonstudio [11], an emerging interdisciplinary design studio based in Los Angeles, is currently developing a scalable initiative that explores the educational, ecological, and economic potential of the Greenaid system.
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[5] dnl.phillips: http://www.inhabitat.com/author/dnl-phillips/
[6] Greenaid: http://thecommonstudio.com/index.php?/project/greenaid/
[7] Seedbomb: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/05/13/seedbomb-plant-capsules-combat-desertification/
[8] reclaim and transform neglected urban sites: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/06/guerrilla-gardening-strategies-for-greening-the-hood/
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[10] seedbombs: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/12/green-graffiti-flower-bomb-balloons/
[11] Commonstudio: http://thecommonstudio.com/index.php?/bios/
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