Urban Grow-Labs

On the 21st March 2010, members of the Haberdasher Estate in East London were invited to participate in a collective mapping session. The haberdasher residents were joined by a small group of designers who helped to facilitate and document an exploration of the estate's 'awkward
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Thanks for the link - I will blog it later. I find it an interesting debate about the divide between rural and urban. I personally find these huge architectural skyscrapers distasteful as they take plants out of natural cycles and artificially control all aspects of a plants life - yet it is important to develop a portfolio of solutions that incorporate the more traditional alongside the visionary living food machines.. although he does point out in the article that the majority of our food is produced hydroponically in controlled 'horizontal' environments.
Lets meet on Friday - I am working in the studio all day so why don't you pop round whenever suits you.
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Rachel
I am subscribed to this mailing list about Sustainability in Design Education and thought you might be interested too, if not already.
http://designactivism.net/
Blog posts on participatory design as activism..
They also listed ten ways to work in sustainable design: