Edible Lecture at Wash U ‘Sustainable Cities’ Symposium
If you are in St. Louis this Fri/Sat, Darrick will be speaking at Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design for their symposium: URBANISM(S): SUSTAINABLE CITIES FOR ONE PLANET. His talk, Edible Infrastructures: Cities, Farms & Algorithms, will explore the generative potential of food systems in the design of future cities and a discussion of the potential...
Edible Collaboration: Rooftop Greenhouse for Manhattan School
Edible Infrastructures is pleased to announce a collaboration with ARExA on the design of a rooftop greenhouse for a school in lower Manhattan. The vision, is to create a lightweight learning environment for K-12 students developing an understanding of science, the environment, health, economics and entrepreneurship through the production of food, research and innovation. We’ve just...
ACADIA 2012: See you in San Francisco
We’re packing our bags. Join us in San Francisco this Thurs-Sun where we’ll present our peer-reviewed paper – ‘Edible Infrastructures: Emergent Organizational Patterns for the Productive City’ summarizing our ongoing research into cities, algorithmic design & food systems. Other notable speakers at this year’s ACADIA conference include Greg Lynn, Neri Oxman, Saul Griffith, Achim Menges and Manuel DeLanda....
Edible to Attend TEDx Cities 2.0
Edible Infrastructures is honored to be invited to attend TEDxDUMBO:Cities2.0 http://tedxdumbo.com/ this weekend to see/hear/discuss some inspirational new ideas on the future of cities. Check back later next week for a full report on the day’s events.
Edible Infrastructures | Synopsis
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 real thing. Click through to read via Issuu. Enjoy!
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
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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.
Blushing… with Distinction
Edible Infrastructures partners, Darrick Borowski and Jeroen Janssen have just learned that they have been awarded ‘Distinction’ for their dissertation “Edible Infrastructures: Organizational Patterns for Urban-Agricultural Landscapes.” Thanks to everyone in Emtech (Emergent Technologies & Design) at the Architectural Association, especially Mike Weinstock, George Jeronimidis, Wolf Mangelsdorf, Toni Kotnik, Suryansh Chandra and many many more…
Hot Off The Presses!
Edible Infrastructures, Vol II is in. Printed, Bound, Delivered. 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
Rolling, unheated greenhouses keep this family farm in Maine producing vegetables (and eggs!) year round, in the NY Times today – 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
NY Hearts Rooftop Greenhouses
As part of a larger initiative to encourage green buildings, New York’s Department of City Planning is proposing revisions to the building code which would allow waivers of floor area and height limits for rooftop greenhouses. Sadly, buildings with residences or other sleeping accomodations are not included. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/greenbuildings/index.shtml
Agriculture + Climate Change
The Other Inconvenient Truth 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...
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...