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Something & Son’s work reflects the teams varied backgrounds and shared passion in art, social enterprise, the environment and engineering. New technologies are applied to projects that explore the creation of a more sustainable world. Leading them to produce popular, provocative and witty work that tackles the big design and social challenges of our time. Recent works include FARM:shop (recently named in the design honours list for 2011 by the New York Times) the worlds first farm in a shop; CAR:park for the London Festival of Architecture; an architectural installation at the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea directed by Ai Wei Wei; 300,000km was a sculpture that doubled as a large scale nesting site for swifts; and for the V&A Museum an installation that used the heat from compost to make tea. Something & Son are currently working with Manchester International Festival looking into the feasibility of doing a vertical farm and for summer 2012 their largest project to date will be an architectural installation based around a surreal spa that will help people feel happy.