The next visionary featured here is Elora Hardy...only now Elora's visions are now based in physical reality; she left her successful career in fashion to design and build bamboo houses with her family.

Watch Elora's TEDtalk below!

Ibuku is their official website
and HERE is an article about her work.

When we think of an advanced civilization we don't envision an exclusively technological world of shiny futuristic buildings and flying cars. We see a beautiful green world with the presence of humans and technology so subtly woven into the landscape that one would think that the earth is sprouting abodes for people. After all, humans are nature and all materials that we often berate as unnatural, like plastics, are all from the earth. The question is: how do we make use of it all more intelligently?

Here are some concept drawings from the VEGETAL CITY website.

Below is a TED talk given by the artist himself. Click on the 'CC' (closed caption tab) on the bottom right, as the talk is given in French.