In the days heading into Sam’s presentation at TEDx Brooklyn, SMIT was happy to welcome Tze Chun to the studio last week. Interviewing Sam and Ben for the New York Times’ Fort Greene Local Blog Artist Spotlight feature, Tze explored the evolution of Solar Ivy, SMIT’s design process and the relationships that grow out of working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Be sure to check out her piece on the New York Times.
The UK’s Architecture of Life blog wrote a post about Solar Ivy.
Last week a feature article on Inhabitat: Six Inspiring Examples of Groundbreaking Green Technology. Solar Ivy appears on that list alongside several other excellent innovations. Thanks to Yuka Yoneda and Inhabitat for the acknowledgement.
Co-founder Sam Cochran directed design for an award-winning diagnostic tool for use by doctors in underdeveloped regions where access to laboratory facilities is inconsistent or nonexistent. The device, designed under Prof. Samuel Sia of Columbia University, uses microfluidics to test for an array of diseases, including sexually-transmitted infections and was field-tested in cooperation with the Rwandan Government.
(image via MIT Technology Review)
On December 22, 2009 they returned to SMIT’s offices for another video segment on SMIT’s “fashionable” solar panels.
Grow and Solar Ivy were featured in the exhibit Kitchen Ecology at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, 2009.
(image via designboom)
FOX Business News visited to SMIT’s studio in Brooklyn to talk to co-founders Sam and Sita during their Start-Up Summeron August 4, 2009.
Green Diary, on July 3, 2009 did a feature piece about GROW’s photo-piezo-electricity-generating panels.
April 2009, Leeser Architecture’s competition-winning designfor a five-star hotel in Zayed Bay, Abu Dhabi includes GROW as a key facade feature.
(image via bustler)
Maison a Part, a French architecture and design magazine and database featured SMIT in December 2008.
