Glowpear Urban Garden

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RESEARCH BACKGROUND: The Glowpear Urban Garden project won a Gold award for product design in the Home and Garden cateogory at the 2014 Melbourne Design Awards. Designed by Simon Lockrey with Glowpear TM co-founders Lloyd Fenn, Nathan Pollock, and Joel Anderson, Urban Garden is a modular self watering planter for the urban environment. It has an iconic, contemporary design aesthetic, designed for small urban spaces such as balconies, courtyards, decks and patios. It is a compact unit for growing fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in small spaces. It uses an internal water reservoir and wicking system, requiring minimal garden maintenance. The Urban Garden has recently been awarded a Good Design Selection by Good Design Australia, now short listed for the most significant national design award, the Good Design Awards. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: This project is part of Lockrey's ongoing focus on bringing practical experience to sustainability research projects in product design and engineering. It demonstrates his engagement with industry, policy makers and wider community sectors through research into sustainable product and service design principles, especially through the themes of life cycle assessment, technology, marketing and strategy. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of the Glowpear Urban Garden project is that it is recognised by the Melbourne Design Awards, which celebrates creativity,courage and innovation in design. The Award program is part of the broader social enterprise platform, the Design100, designed to provide broad recognition to emerging and established designers around the world. The Urban Garden was included as a curated entry in the Awards by Design100, is design registered globally, and widely available commercially in Australia, Asia, Canada and the USA. It has received extensive attention in the media, including UnCrate, Design Milk, HypeBeast, Adore Home Magazine, House and Garden, Better Homes and Gardens, Herald Sun and DZine.