Turning trash into cool new treasures is a growing trend that we can definitely get behind. For this year’s Barcelona Design Festival, Transfodesign organized an event to turn unwanted junk into Trashkitchens. Over the course of two days, five design teams took on the challenge to create fully functional mobile kitchen units built from discarded materials — proving that trash can certainly be given a second life! The event was sponsored by Heineken and supported by ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona.

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Did you know you can power a clock with dirt? Dutch designer Marieke Staps has figured out a way to grow time, instead of killing it. Her soil-powered bio-clock (is that like a biological clock?), showcased at Dutch Design Week in 2008 and most recently at Dwell on Design‘s Kitchen Ecology Show last week, keeps time by plugging into mud!

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The rules of kitchen design have just changed. Whirlpool and Elmar recently debuted the kitchen of the future at the Milan Furniture Fair, and it’s energy efficient, eco-friendly, and interconnected. Their Green Living kitchen brings together contemporary cabinetry, advanced appliances and systems that work together in a culinary-centered symbiotic relationship.

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