“Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out the blueprint for a successful century.” -The New York TimesWe've seen his enthusiastic lecture at LSE in London last year and since then closely followed his blog: alexsteffen.com. Have a look yourself! Below is his TED talk of last year:
“Alex Steffen explores our planet’s future, telling powerful, inspiring stories about the hard choices facing humanity … and our opportunity to create a much better tomorrow.”-TED.com
Alex Steffen is one of the world’s leading voices on sustainability, social innovation and planetary futurism. He is an award-winning writer and planetary futurist, who speaks to audiences around the world. (all quoted from alexsteffen.com)
Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities
Favela Farming
Cidades sem Fome (Cities Without Hunger) is an organization working to bring communal gardens, and just as importantly, agricultural skills, to inhabitants of Sao Paolo's Favelas.
Read more about their important work here ->
http://positivenews.org.uk
Read more about their important work here ->
http://positivenews.org.uk
Phase II research is now online
Phase II research, including our second test case, is slowly making its way onto the site. Check the tabs above for the most recent work which focuses on spatial development of our prototypical Productive City, including:
- programming of the urban circulatory network
- a new emergent productive urban block organization
- combinatorial strategies for new architectural typologies
In the addition, the new test case in Kunsangen, SE, is our proposal for a productive satellite/commuter city for 150,000 people, on a nine sq km peninsula in the Greater Stockholm Metro Region. Check it out at here -> Kungsangen/ Stockholm Test Case
- programming of the urban circulatory network
- a new emergent productive urban block organization
- combinatorial strategies for new architectural typologies
In the addition, the new test case in Kunsangen, SE, is our proposal for a productive satellite/commuter city for 150,000 people, on a nine sq km peninsula in the Greater Stockholm Metro Region. Check it out at here -> Kungsangen/ Stockholm Test Case
Edible Infrastructures Book [online edition]
We've posted a digital edition of the book - have a look above (or on Issuu.) We are working on making a print edition available (and affordable) for those of you that have asked!
Feel free to email us at info [at] edibleinfrastructures [dot] net - we welcome your feedback. Thanks.
Hot Off The Presses!
Lots of new work in the spatial development of our algorithmically generated urban tissues.
We'll be posting new research from this phase online over the coming days.
Producing year-round with Innovative Low-tech Structures
The Land That Keeps Giving
A Mushroom Grows in Seattle
Used coffee grounds from neighborhood cafes get new life as growing medium for oyster mushrooms, thanks to CityLab7's installation at Olsen Kundig's storefront space in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. Pilar Viladas, over at T Magazine, has a great story about it today -
Pioneer Square’s Mushroom Farm
Agriculture + Climate Change
We typically think of climate change as the biggest environmental issue we face today. But maybe it's not? In this presentation, Jonathan Foley shows how agriculture and land use are maybe a bigger culprit in the global environment, and could grow even larger as we look to feed over 9 billion people in the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uJhgGbRA6Hk
Jonathan Foley gives a good talk outlining the impact of agriculture on the earth's resources and its effect on climate change.
Ted Prize for 2012 awarded to City 2.0
This year's TED Prize, by giving the award to an idea instead of a person as is usually the case, recognizes the potential and urgency of developing new ways of thinking about our cities.
Why is TED awarding the 2012 TED Prize to an idea and not a person? Because this is an idea capable of inspiring collaborative actiion by millions of people. Urbanization is one of the century’s biggest issues. Over the next 90 years, we will build more urban living space than in all prior centuries combined. We had better get it right.They are challenging the world's thinkers to take part in a much needed multidisciplinary effort to re-imagine how the globe's population will form communities that reduce energy, protect the environment, encourage positive economic activity and generally improve the quality of life for its inhabitants.
We welcome the challenge and hope to participate in our small way.
via PSFK -
http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/ted-gives-2012-prize-to-an-idea-not-a-person.html
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