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"A growing world population with the potential to reach nine billion by 2050 will require a 50% increase in production by 2030. To cope, the food system will need to be low carbon, resilient, environmentally restorative and sustainable in social and economic terms. It’s all exciting and challenging stuff, but this vision is only 20 short years away – has anyone…

We are busy preparing a series of workshops here in London, one of them is called Solar Jam, an ongoing exploration by our design studio about energy, food and metabolism in design. 

We are using public workshops to encourage experimentation, proposing we turn our kitchens,…

Open Source Ecology (OSE), “a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters,” is putting together detailed DIY guides for creating your own farm equipments and other machines.

OSE is interested in opening up the circulation of knowledge around everyday things. They are demystifying the machines and how-they-work…

Urban Metabolic Growth is a research attempt at applying the principles that define the growth of organisms to the gradual (or not so gradual) growth of cities and metropolises. Two case studies were adopted: 1. a region in northern China that hosts an arid and cold climate and 2. a region in western Australia that hosts a hot and semi-arid climate.

According…