tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59423050270641034562024-03-05T01:00:11.561-08:00Edible InfrastructuresOrganizational Systems for Urban-Agricultural LandscapesDarrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-66775012862949460862012-10-15T22:54:00.004-07:002012-10-17T10:32:59.642-07:00We've moved...<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi there! If you've been following and enjoying our exploits here at edibleinfrastructures.blogspot.com, come see us at our new home - <a href="http://edibleinfrastructures.net/">http://edibleinfrastructures.net</a>. And if you've just stumbled across us for the first time, we invite you to check us out over there for more CITIES, FARMS & ALGORITHMS.<br />So --> <a href="http://edibleinfrastructures.net/">http://edibleinfrastructures.net</a>Meet you over there ok?</span><br />
<br />Darrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-82243114748366611312012-10-13T07:22:00.001-07:002012-10-13T07:22:40.743-07:00TEDxDUMBO: Cities 2.0<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;">Edible Infrastructures is honored to be invited to attend TEDxDUMBO:Cities2.0 </span><a href="http://tedxdumbo.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tedxdumbo.com/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18.88888931274414px;"> today to see/hear some inspirational new ideas on the future of cities. Look for a full report here later... </span><br />
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Climate change in UK raises concern about the future of agriculture and food production. Experts at the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) are looking for adaptation scenarios for farmers and growers to respond to change - article in the farminguk.com:<br />
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If you are interested in reading more about our work but already have a stack of 'must-read' books on your desk, we've put together this research synopsis to give you an overview of our project and to whet your appetite for the<a href="http://edibleinfrastructures.blogspot.com/2012/02/edible-infrastructures-online-edition.html" target="_blank"> real thing</a>. Enjoy!<br />
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In Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the importance of smallholder farmers in terms of food security and sustainable agriculture was highlighted - article in the Guardian:<br />
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</div>nicolettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15834940875029136516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-78874623121038636772012-06-10T03:55:00.000-07:002012-06-10T03:55:56.546-07:00Eat Out at the AllotmentThis is what happened yesterday under our window!<br />
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An exceptional dining experience was organised in an inner city allotment.<br />
The event was part of the Vacant Lot programme of the architectural office What If, located in London. The project maps vacant and neglected spaces that surround inner city housing estates. Strategies have been developed how these unloved spaces could be appropriated to accomodate the needs of the local population.<br />
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Have a look at their website:<br />
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<a href="http://www.what-if.info/">http://www.what-if.info/</a>Jeroen Janssenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226353505940796922noreply@blogger.comLondon, UK51.5081289 -0.12800551.350006900000004 -0.443862 51.6662509 0.187852tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-70723732053690082322012-04-15T10:50:00.000-07:002012-04-19T09:55:22.362-07:00Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out the blueprint for a successful century.” -The New York Times<br />
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“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<br />
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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. <i>(all quoted from <a href="http://www.alexsteffen.com/">alexsteffen.com</a>)</i></blockquote>
We've seen his enthusiastic lecture at LSE in London last year and since then closely followed his blog: <a href="http://www.alexsteffen.com/">alexsteffen.com</a>. Have a look yourself! Below is his TED talk of last year:<br />
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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. <br />
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<a href="http://positivenews.org.uk/2012/environment/agriculture/6192/urban-agriculture-brazils-favelas/">http://positivenews.org.uk</a></div>Darrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-77297562542603135252012-03-28T16:18:00.002-07:002012-03-29T21:17:46.115-07:00Phase II research is now onlinePhase 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: <br />
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- combinatorial strategies for new architectural typologies <br />
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<a href="http://edibleinfrastructures.blogspot.co.uk/p/test-case-2-kungsangen-stockholm.html" rel="nofollow"> -> Kungsangen/ Stockholm Test Case</a><br />
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We've posted a digital edition of the book - have a look above (or on <a href="http://issuu.com/edibleinfrastructures/docs/edible_infrastructures_phase2/1" target="_blank">Issuu</a>.) We are working on making a print edition available (and affordable) for those of you that have asked! <br />
Feel free to email us at info [at] edibleinfrastructures [dot] net - we welcome your feedback. Thanks.Darrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-56876656415155229582012-03-14T13:13:00.000-07:002012-02-24T03:20:46.786-08:00Hot Off The Presses!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Edible Infrastructures, Vol II is in. Printed, Bound, Delivered.<br />
Lots of new work in the spatial development of our algorithmically generated urban tissues.<br />
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Rolling, unheated greenhouses keep this family farm in Maine producing vegetables (and eggs!) year round, in the NY Times today -
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Used coffee grounds from neighborhood cafes get new life as growing medium for oyster mushrooms, thanks to <a href="http://www.citylab7.com/">CityLab7</a>'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 -<br />
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<b>The Other Inconvenient Truth</b><br /><i>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.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uJhgGbRA6Hk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uJhgGbRA6Hk</a><br /><br />Jonathan Foley gives a good talk outlining the impact of agriculture on the earth's resources and its effect on climate change.Darrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-81609624699728092112011-12-12T04:06:00.000-08:002012-02-24T03:29:16.610-08:00Ted Prize for 2012 awarded to City 2.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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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.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">From the Urban Prototypes Research Cluster brief...</span><br />
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Here they are folks. Vol. I of Edible Infrastructures - the first copies - hot off the presses.<br />
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It's rewarding to see all this research starting to come together in something you can hold in your hand and flip through. <br />
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I was so surprised and delighted to see one of these proposals actually getting built.<br />
This Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) by <a href="http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/?p=207">Stefano Boeri</a> is currently being built in Milan. I really hope this project works and we see those trees thrive, but those planters make me nervous - they just seem too small don't they? <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are pleased to announce that Edible Infrastructures has won 2nd prize in the international design competition for a <a href="http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/tag/center-for-urban-farming/">Center for Urban Farming</a> in Brooklyn, New York. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See the announcement and other winning entries at the <a href="http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/tag/center-for-urban-farming/">Suckerpunch website</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks again to our mentors, friends & colleagues who helped make it happen. <span id="goog_1979673990"></span><span id="goog_1979673991"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a></span>Darrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-39888500372859838672011-09-17T18:16:00.001-07:002011-09-17T18:50:12.434-07:00Settlement Simulation in the Brooklyn Navy Yard<object height="344" width="550"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
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Click the movie above to watch a test run of the Settlement Simulation, a cellular automata based generative algorithm for distributing dwellings and farms. The Settlement Sim generates neighborhood-scale aggregations of dwellings and the productive surfaces required to feed the them. Shades of green represent production intensity (# of people fed / 100m2, lightest green = 1, darkest green =10)Darrick Borowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13749925909267359012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942305027064103456.post-59686776071696198342011-09-09T17:30:00.000-07:002011-09-17T18:53:43.821-07:00Chicago Paves Way for Commercial Scale Urban Farms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Chicago City Council approved a zoning code amendment allowing for more widespread urban agriculture Thursday. As WBEZ reports, the zoning code has expanded the size of community gardens to 25,000 feet, thus accommodating commercial farms within city limits.</div>
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