Metropolis Magazine is holding a competition to design the Next Big Thing. They are offering $10 000 for the winner, which is to be used to put the idea into practice.

In 2005 there were two winners: Josef Hagerman proposed the Biopaver. A paving system in which phytoremediating plants - those that remove pollutants from the air - are seeded. And Alisa Andrasek introduced the Genware: The Algorithmic Library, a means by which engineers, architects, designers etc can wok in a more connected manner. The winners in 2004, Single Speed Design proposed using the dismantled pieces of elevated highways in Boston for sustainable housing.

Here at Gravestmor, I tend not to have too many Big Ideas, but well, wouldn’t it be great if one if you dear readers did? GET CRACKING TEAM!