Monday was our first meeting after GA Organics, and we had a lot to talk about – how the conference went, what we learned from the community, the people we spoke with. We also had a guest visitor – Barbara Stafford, who has a stint with us beginning in the fall. Lady Rogue brought a [...]

In order to get a better sense (pun intended! ha-ha) of the robotics world, I read A test bed for insect-inspired robotic control by Michael Reiser and Michael Dickinson (2003). Glancing through robotics articles, this one stuck out to me immediately as intriguing (insects + robots? huh?) and potentially relevant (insects + agriculture seem to [...]

Monday’s meeting was the first time we saw each other since since The Future of Farm last Thursday (which was incredible and worthy of it’s own blog post, coming sooner than later). As you can imagine we had quite a bit to talk about. To focus our energies, Dr. DiSalvo asked us 4 questions, which [...]

Having trouble finding local, organic food? Crochet your own! I stumbled upon Tasty Crochet by Rosa Langlitz and was sad to see that you can’t actually eat it. Maybe flavored yarn will be the next big thing.

We couldn’t help but notice that our designated lab space was a bit…atrocious. Not like, rotting-food-and-accompanying-flies atrocious, but like desks and freecycled tidbids and computers and chairs not being used atrocious. Surely the intent (I’m guessing) was to give Digital Media students the tools we need to get things done, but when tools turn into [...]

In the past few weeks, 2 facets of public participatory design have stood out to me as major points of interest and areas of needed exploration: process and documentation. Given my interest in these areas – and where we are and what we’re doing with growBots – 2 methods from this weeks readings emerged as [...]

Carrot City Carrot City is a display of concepts that pave way to opportunities and possibilities to the future of urban agriculture and farming at large. Some of these projects include Ravine City (Chris Hardwicke) – a system of urban redesign that would leverage the ravine system of Toronto to integrate a network that would [...]

EcoPod Vertical Farming Tended by Robots Boston architects Howeler + Yoon and Los Angeles digital designers Squared Design Lab have designed a conceptual structure for Boston, where an unfinished building would be covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel. The pods would be continuously rearranged by robotic arms (powered by the micro-algae produced) to [...]

Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens (Public Farm 1) “Public Farm 1,” proposes planting a garden of cabbage and a range of other vegetables, fruits, and herbs in the outdoor courtyards at P.S.1. Public Farm 1Video on Vimeo Tuvie Design Dragonfly vertical farm is a concept urban farm specially designed for the Roosevelt Island [...]