From the Japanese portmanteau for frame plus aquaponics (้กใใ), we enjoyed this rather lovely prototype by designer Keisuke Hatakenaka that creates a self-sustaining system of fish and plants with the 
ecosystems supporting one another—especially enjoying this correspondence, spotted first by Messy Nessy Chic, for a comparable arrangement in this circa 1880 combination of a bird cage, aquarium and plant stand. Of course a bit of intervention and caretaking is needed to keep the loop alive and healthy, but waste from the fish provide nutrients for the garden, which in turn purifies and oxygenates the water, and the installation is designed to educate in an aesthetic way (see previously) natural symbiosis. Much more from Spoon & Tamago at the link above.
synchronoptica
one year ago: eighty bangers from the 80s (with synchronopticรฆ) plus a novel wildfire detection device
thirteen years ago: Franconian churches
fourteen years ago: a cosmological map
fifteen years ago: Mount Athos and the Greek economy
