Vanessa Harden: the Subversive Gardening

By Justin on December 18th, 2009, 9:11 am 3 Comments

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Canadian-born / UK-based designer, Vanessa Harden has invented a number of camouflaged devices meant to ease the process of guerrilla gardening.

Among things like ankle-attached mechanical seed distribution, briefcases that dig holes, and purses designed to easily carry plants to the site of installation, Harden hacked a Pentax camera to create what she calls, the Precision Bombing Device 1, pictured above.

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An exploded (no pun intended) diagram of the device shows its simplicity. You can see more photos of a number of her projects on her flickr stream.

And here’s a demo of the Precision Bombing Device 1 in action.

[via Design Boom]

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  1. Grace in Small Things – 237 (Show Up) « says:
    December 20, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    [...] Guerrilla gardening. [...]

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  2. the subversive gardener :: vanessa harden says:
    January 8, 2010 at 12:29 pm

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  3. Philipe says:
    June 27, 2010 at 8:35 am

    This is absolutely ridiculous!

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