Eden Project's Design Blogs
New giant mining exhibit at Eden
When you next visit Eden, keep your eyes peeled for our revamped mining exhibit – you’ll recognise it from the giant truck tyre. It comes from the sort of monster truck that operates in open pit mines across the world. The trucks are as big as a three-bedroom house, weigh more than a jumbo jet, [...]
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Be part of our testing team
The Eden Project Digital team is conducting some user-testing so we can make the website as easy as possible to use. We’re looking for a small number of people to take part in a simple online, card-sorting exercise that should take less than 15 minutes to complete. If you can spare 10 to 15 minutes and [...]
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Eden Project designer to take leading role in Kenyan environmental institute
The organisation behind the original landscape “masterplan” for the Eden Project has won the right to work on a prestigious new environmental institute in Kenya. Land Use Consultants is part of a consortium who won the bid to build a “green campus” for the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies at the University [...]
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Sophie Thomas: There’s no such thing as waste
What have the giant WEEE Man at Eden and a citizens advice book from 1942 got in common? Designer Sophie Thomas reveals the answer. And reminds us that there really is no such thing as waste. As a designer involved in the shaping of things, I remember being so excited to hear about the reclamation of [...]
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Wayne Hemingway: how to design free range kids
Designer Wayne Hemingway on how to create a world where refuse is a thing of the past, communities share scraps of land, and kids run free. 1. Design for ‘free range kids’ I have fond memories of my family’s early home in a tower block, where we kids would play cricket and ‘cardboard’ down the [...]
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Shipping container art exhibition lands at Eden
There’s a new addition to Eden’s skyline this spring: a beautifully decorated shipping container that’s been transformed into a temporary art space. The container is one of 15 have that have been dropped at various sites across Cornwall, each showcasing the work of local artists. Inside ours, visitors can immerse themselves in a continuous wave [...]
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Recycled hotel to pitch in Eden Biome for the night
Visitors to Eden will see an unusual structure come to life in the Med Biome next week – a ‘one-night hotel’ made out of 10,000 disused tent poles. Designed by the engineering company behind the velodrome for the 2012 Olympics, the shelter is being put together by a world-class team of experts – along with [...]
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Big Design Challenge Cornwall at Eden
A Dragon’s Den style pitching event is happening at Eden on 2nd March as part of the Intersections 2011 conference which is taking place here on the 2 / 3 March. 6 ideas to address community challenges in Cornwall will be competing for a prize fund of up to £10,000. The challenges have been selected [...]
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Design conference at Eden Project 2-3 March
We’re proud to be hosting a cutting edge design conference in a few weeks’ time, on 2nd – 3rd March. Arranged by Dott Cornwall along with other leading design organisations, the two-day event will see leading industry figures coming together to discuss the emerging trends driving business change and reveal new opportunities for design practice. Among the impressive line of speakers [...]
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