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		<title>growBots covered in Gourmet magazine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The January 2011 edition of Gourmet magazine published an in-depth piece on the growBot Garden project. The article is iPad-only (for now), so we&#8217;ve included some screengrabs below for your reading pleasure. Article by Sarah Rich. Originally published in the January 26, 2011 edition of the Gourmet iPad application.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/100770</link>
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		<title>San Jose Overview  &#8211; Sign Up or Stop By!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[growBot Garden Public and Participatory Workshops &#038; Events @ the 01SJ Biennial, September 11 &#8211; 19th, 2010 South Hall, 435 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95110 Daily Activities Sept. 11 – 14 &#038; 16 – 19 (closed Sept. 15) 2-5pm Discuss, Explore &#038; Make Workshops Join us for hands-on design activities exploring the speculative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/100559</link>
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		<title>So, what do you design?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Do you actually design robots? A: No, at least, not yet. Q: So, then, what do you design? At its core, the growBot Garden project is all about constructing events that bring together local small-scale farmers and other food producers, designers, artists, engineers, and others who are interested in the future of sustainable agriculture, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/100525</link>
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		<title>Looking Back as We Look Forward to San Jose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Fall (2009) our Public Design Workshop project studio was focused on the topic of speculative robotics. In that studio, Laura conceived of the growBot Garden project as a series of creative conversations that would bring together local small-scale farmers and designers to explore how robotics technology might be applied to support sustainable organic agriculture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/100521</link>
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		<title>Vertical Addition to the Lab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to recent graduate Karen MacKay, who is apparently as generous as she is talented, the growBot lab is now home to her modular hydroponic vertical farm, equipped with water bottles modded to hold planters, ceramic beads, and a cyclical water reservoir. The farm was used for her award-winning master&#8217;s project, so you can imagine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Symposium, Summer, and San Jose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Monday was our long-awaited growBot Symposium, a day-long workshop which brought together a diverse group of farmers, producers, and other growing-minded individuals to learn the basics of robotics and build imaginative robotic prototypes. The event turned out wonderfully (despite being rained out of our original space), and everyone got to stretch their imaginations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beth&#8217;s Prototype Prototypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over this weekend, I spent quite a bit of time building prototypes to try to figure out what materials work best. Since repurposed materials are desired (they articulate our message of sustainability), I put myself through a little experiment where I created the same idea using materials gathered from my house and materials gathered in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/345</link>
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		<title>Meeting Notes and Photos: 03.29 &#8211; 04.02</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when we thought we had refined our ideas about the growBot Symposium, we realize we have to get even more specific. Roles are being divided based on the many tasks we must fulfill, and we are full speed ahead until the end of the semester. 03.29 we had industrial design grad student Karen Mackay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/307</link>
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		<title>Meeting Notes 03.15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday&#8217;s meeting delved further into the agenda of our upcoming design workshop, ending with the beginnings of a discussion about a paper by Pelle Ehn. I didn&#8217;t take any pictures, but there are a lot of notes below. Today&#8217;s agenda Updates from the group about event discuss Pelle Ehn paper create schedule together Notes Event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growbotgarden.com/300</link>
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		<title>Meeting Notes and Pictures 03.01-03.11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have been centered around figuring out the who, what, when, where and why for our upcoming participatory design workshop. Monday 3.01 we had an on-the-spot brainstorming session about what kind of workshop activity we could do, and then Monday 3.08 we were handed the assignment of figuring out exactly what we [...]]]></description>
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