Pollination for our future
Design is where solutions to potentially cataclysmic scale problems start. Industrial design student, Anna Haldewang, didn’t just wonder how much technology it may take to replace a bee. She seeks an answer with “Plan Bee, a hand-size drone that detects flowers with an ultraviolet camera, then uses a suction mechanism to suck pollen from one plant and blow it to another.” (Time, 27 March 2017) Here’s more on this story that inspires us to design with real world solutions at the forefront of our thinking.