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IKEAのイノベーションラボSPACE10が発行した理想の都市について様々な専門家がまとめた書籍「the ideal city」について創設者のサイモン・カスパーセンに訪ねたインタビュー記事 (designboom) SPACE10, IKEA's innovation lab, on designing 'the ideal city'  (designboom)

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SPACE10, “SolarVille,”

SPACE10 developed SolarVille alongside blockchain experts BLOC, blocktech, and WeMoveIdeas india, while architecture practice SachsNottveit designed the neighborhood itself.

The project explores how combining new technologies with solar power can make clean energy more affordable. The vision centers on cooperative micro-grids where homeowners can become makers and traders of clean energy 

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If Ikea can flat-pack its furniture, why not a tiny house?

Ikea's Copenhagen-based future living lab Space10 is a trip on a normal day but two Danish design students have just outdone themselves by designing a 500-square-foot tiny house that can be open-sourced around the globe and manufactured for less than $10,000.

Johanne Holm-Jensen and Mia Behrens were invited to perform a six-month-long residency project at Ikea’s Space10, a Denmark-based future-living lab to create the cheapest, most versatile living structure possible and to say they succeeded is an understatement. They named their project “Building Blocks,” and managed to create a fully functional micro-home for $192 per square meter, or $9,400 in total.

The keys to their breakthrough, a fully modular home that can be shipped at low cost or downloaded and replicated around the world, are twofold. First, the duo used a single machine, the easily available and cost-effective CNC milling machine to craft the home. Second, they used a single material in FSC-certified plywood, one of the most pervasive building materials used in construction today.

The design is intended to be made so that it’s easily downloaded in the public domain, a practice known as “open-source architecture.” Designed with flexibility in mind, the tiny home could be utilized as anything from a backyard writing cabin to emergency housing in regions around the world. Once an open-source designed is released, it can be freely utilized by anyone to use, modify or share.

The “footprint” of the design is just 49 square meters (a mere 527 square feet), which excludes it from most building regulations. The students’ remarkable structure is also modular, which means it can be scaled to meet different needs, ranging from a cabin getaway to a camp for hundreds.

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Ikea has debuted an indoor farm that grows greens 3 times as fast as in a garden

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Ikea is known for its flat-pack kitchen tables, islands, and cabinets. Now the home-furnishings retailer is experimenting with a product that would allow it to harvest salad greens in-store. Space10, Ikea's innovation lab, has designed a prototype of a mini-farm that can grow greens and herbs indoors.

The idea is to "explore how Ikea could develop a new, local supply chain for its own food," Space10 spokesperson Simon Caspersen told Business Insider.

Called Lokal, it uses a hydroponic farming system — allowing crops to grow on trays under LEDs in a climate-controlled box. Space10 debuted the device in September at the London Design Festival in Shoreditch.

The Lokal farm lets anyone harvest greens indoors.

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Crops grow under LEDs instead of relying on natural sunlight.

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This process allows the greens to grow about three times as fast as they would in an outdoor garden.

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The Space10 team estimates that Lokal uses 90% less water than a traditional garden to produce the same amount of greens, since the crops grow faster.

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Space10 gave 2,000 samples of Lokal microgreens to London Design Week attendees.

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The purpose was to see how Londoners felt about Ikea's experiment — and food grown hydroponically in general. In a press release, the team said it was optimistic about the project.

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Michael La Cour, the managing director of Ikea Food Services, said in a statement that Lokal still needed to be developed further before the company could decide to grow its own greens in stores.

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The Space10 team is now working on adding sensors to the growing trays so users can use Google Home to track how the greens grow. Using machine learning, the sensor system could allow gardeners to learn how to improve the growing process.

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This isn't the first time Ikea has experimented with agriculture. In late 2016, Space10 launched a flat-pack spherical garden called the Growroom that grows plants, veggies, and herbs. Ikea made the Growroom's design plans open-source in February.

Ikea also already sells small, countertop gardens that use LED lights and hydroponics to grow greens.

"Lokal could help develop a new, local supply chain — one that enables us to grow more food within our cities, and food that tastes great and is more nutritious, healthy, and fresh all year round," said Guillaume Charny-Brunet, the director of innovation strategy at Space10.

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‘Lokal’ pop-up hydroponic farm - by SPACE10 - London Design Festival 2017 ____

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IKEAの研究機関SPACE10が発表した、カスタマイズ可能なミツバチを保護するための家 (Co.Design) Ikea wants to help you design your very own dream home—for bees (Co.Design)