Rise

RISE

Puebla, Mexico

Student Group

Rise has been a work of one and half years created by a group of tree industrial designers who seek to design with ethic and responsibility to create great positive solutions that will contribute to a more sustainable world. They received the Eddie Squire Award at the RSA Student Design Awards 2017. Today they continue working to bring design concepts to life where they can contribute to humanity.

《Rise》

Category | Product and Industrial Design: Product Design

Group | Student

Cities are expanding at an unimaginable fast pace and the fields once dedicated to agricultural production are progressively replaced for industry and roads. Consequently, croplands are being pushed farther away from the cities they feed, causing the increase of food transportation from rural areas into the cities. This has caused today an increase in transportation, waste and higher price to consumers, many of whom live in extreme poverty and cannot afford the prices.

From the different problems presented the main challenge has become feeding the growing populations where there is widespread poverty. Today, many large cities in the developing world, such as Dhaka, Freetown, Guatemala City, Lagos, and La Paz, already face poverty rates of 50% or more.

Therefore, Rise comes as a solution to reduce this problem.

It is an intelligent carpet made of 100% natural materials containing local seeds, liquid filters and other materials that make it possible to grow plants without a fertile soil and water, using only human urine as liquid source. It will give the opportunity to the citizens to harvest their own crops in their own homes.

Its functionality is simple; the urine goes through a sanitation process where it will dissolve the components that we do not need.

Once the liquid has reached the Polyacrylate, the textile will hold up the purified liquid from where the plants can take their nutrients once it is needed.