The latest issue of DTU’s international magazine, Technologist, has hit the street. Last week, the magazine won a bronze medal at the European Design Awards event in Istanbul.
Many European magazine readers have already noticed that Technologist is a science magazine out of the ordinary. The magazine focuses on how technology and science affect our everyday life—but in a completely new way—by means of unconventional design, crazy infographics, fold-your-own wind turbines, and other paper gadgets.
And this has now earned Technologist a prestigious award: a bronze medal in magazine design at this year's European Design Awards Festival 2015 which took place in Istanbul last week.
“With its detachable pages that can be shared or saved, it is an innovative journalistic concept and effective educational tool,” as the jury stated in its justification.
In the new issue, Technologist, among other things, tells its readers what it takes to solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world: how to produce enough food for a world population of nine billion people in 2050? One solution could be ‘vertical farming’ in the large cities, i.e. high-tech high-rise greenhouses with LED lighting and controlled climate, fertilizer and irrigation systems. Electronics giants such as Toshiba and Fujitsu already grow lettuce and spinach in former clean rooms for electronics production—and, according to the editors, it is apparently just a question of time before we in Europe start growing crops in this highly efficient and eco-friendly manner. Read the article on Technologist's website.
Peter Vesborg from DTU is given the last word in this issue of Technologist. Conducting research into photocatalysis at DTU Physics, he dresses down the European energy research community and energy industry in a column, urging them to start investing in research into energy solutions. Because regardless of how many wind turbines we build, and regardless of how many solar cell systems we establish, we will experience serious shortage of fuel for our cars and aircraft. Massive investments are therefore called for. Most European energy companies only invest around 1 per cent of their revenue in research and development, which, according to Peter Vesborg, is far too little. In comparison, the pharmaceutical industry invests around 10-15 per cent. You can read more in Technologist no. 05, which can be ordered from the magazine’s website, www.technologist.eu.
Read more about the European Design Award.