Our Mission
We are an engineering research group focused on developing new technologies for humanity's infrastructural needs: Energy, Water and Food.
We focus on envisioning solutions for the high demands of today and tomorrow through innovative integrations of current and future technologies.
august 2016
Solar-powered Pipe desalinizes 1.5 billion gallons of drinking water for California.
Inhabitat / Read Full Article
august 2016
solar-powered 'pipe' sculpture generates 4.5 billion liters of drinkable water from the ocean.
Designboom / Read Full Article
Our Projects
THE PIPE
Santa Monica - 2016
From the Beach, a gleaming pipe floated in the horizon. Its a testament to our time. It reminds us about our dire dependence on water and on our need to appreciate and value this vital gift. It shows us that water is plenty and nature is kind. We just have to learn to work with it, keep it clean and appreciate it.
Our Projects
THE Seaflute
MELBOURNE - 2018
In the afternoon the families gathered on the beautiful green hill on St. Kilda Triangle. As the fresh sea breeze blew through the trees and the children played through the park, soft, playful melodies of the Seaflutes chimed into their laughters. Spending time at the park after a beautiful day at the beach or a visit to the Palais theatre had now become a ritual for the locals. Many parents with their kids, and tourists alike, always gathered around the Seaflutes to see it with their own eyes. How could such a funny and playful sculpture that played music with the sea breeze be supplying the city with its electricity?
Our Projects
THE Oasis
Abu Dhabi - 2019
The Oasis at Masdar was a marvel to behold. Not because it was a deep and lush forest in the heart of a modern city...nor because the structure was producing electricity and water for that city... It was a marvel because it gave us hope. Hope that it was now possible to create such a reality for our future.
Our Partner
BETTER
Better has been the design partner of Ionics since the inception of the research group. Through this partnership, we have been able to envision technologies that redefine categories through comprehensive design systems: