Doris Sung is currently rethinking the way how building skins are constructed and embedded in our daily lives. For here idea of interactive, zero-energy building components, she received a [the next idea] honorary mention! Here you can find out more about here project….

We have to deal with our history and there is sometimes no way out! And althoug that seems to be very true for architecture, the Re-Skin project shows a way how it is possible to transfrom buildings in an eays and effective way.

It does not always has to be a digitial technology….. A lot of times easy looking analog solutions can make a big diffrence, as this briquette presse developed by the Legacy Foundation shows.

Why not use lightning as an energy source? Four architecture students submitted this idea in 2011 and here you can find their submission…..

How to combine economical and ecological thinking in a useful way? This question asks Elliott P. Montgomery and answers it at the same time by deveoloping unconventional business models for low-carbon technologies.

How to navigate peoples energy consumption by the use of smart technologies has been a challange for the last couple of years. Fran Castillo tries to solve this problem by cmobining the realt time visualization of the energy consumption of a whole city and autonomous, decentralized energy systems.

Brain White is an inventor and he submitted one of his inventons to the [the next idea] grant! A pulser pump working without any kind of engine!

To recycle plastic is not a really new thing, but to build a whole island out of it, is somehow noteable. Although this island doesn´t exist jet, the WHIM architects make a nice and interesting proposal with their Recycled Island project.

Mark Suppes is currently working on a so called fusion reactor, which could open up a completely new way of energy production. And beyond that, the way how he is approaching this project is a novel one in terms of how science can be done outside of insitutionalised academic structures. Therfor he received a lot of international attention and a “[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant” honorary mention. Find his application here……

A giant lung built out of old cars and cleaning New Delhi´s air, that´s the idea of the architect Julien Combes and the engineer Gaël Brulé! And here is an excerpt of their submission…..