Collasus Farmhack Presentation

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MARCH 10,11, 2012

NETWORKS

GRASSROOTS DIY ANARCHIST ACTIVIST LOCAL COLLABORATIVE DIRECT DEMOCRACY

NETWORKS

GRASSROOTS DIY ANARCHIST ACTIVIST LOCAL COLLABORATIVE DIRECT DEMOCRACY

NETWORKS

GRASSROOTS DIY ANARCHIST ACTIVIST LOCAL COLLABORATIVE DIRECT DEMOCRACY

SUSTAINING A working group A project

ORGANIZING An Event A Publication A Social Network

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DESIGNERS ARE MORE THAN JUST SERVICE PROVIDERS.

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FARMERS ARE MORE THAN JUST GOODS PRODUCERS.

Event:

Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Barn Raising

Document:

A Website A Publication A Social Network

Make: Plan:

Sustaining the group What is the next step?

How to maximize a potential?

Who else would be interested?

Building Something Planning Something

FAMILIAR IMAGES:

CLOSED LOOPS IN TRADITIONAL ECONOMIES. CLOSED LOOP PRODUCTS COST MORE MONEY.

SUSTAINABLE FOR WHO?

“CIVIL BRANDING” LIFECYCLE DESIGN

PRODUCT CENTERIC

PROJECT CENTERIC

VS

Event:

Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Barn Raising

Document:

A Website A Publication A Social Network

Make: Plan:

Sustaining the group What is the next step?

How to maximize a potential?

Who else would be interested?

Building Something Planning Something

SUSTAINING A COMMUNITY Event:

Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Barn Raising

Document:

A Website A Publication A Social Network

Make: Plan:

Sustaining the group What is the next step?

How to maximize a potential?

Who else would be interested?

Building Something Planning Something

SUSTAINING A PROJECT Event:

Document:

Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Barn Raising

WRITE A PROGRAM

A Website A Publication A Social Network

INSPIRING RESEARCH

Make:

Building Something Planning Something

Plan:

Sustaining the group What is the next step?

How to maximize a potential?

Who else would be interested?

WHAT NEXT? THOUGHTFUL DESIGN

POSSIBLE PROMPTS: -WATER -SOIL -GROWING STRUCTURES -INFRASTRUCTURE -ETC: • WATER ISSUES

• SOLAR DEHYDRATORS

• COMPOST HEATING

• IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

• TOOL STORAGE

• COMPOST TEA

• URBAN FARMING AS AN ART PRACTICE

• RAIN COLLECTORS

• WORM BINS

• TEMPORARY AGRICULTURE

• ART AS PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

• DRIP LINE SYSTEMS

• COMPOST COLLECTION

• COMMUNITY AWARENESS

• WEED CONTROL

• VERTICAL PLANTING

• COLLABORATING WITH DESIGNERS

• SOIL FERTILITY

• SHARING RECIPES

• ORGANIZING CLASSES

• NUTRIENT CYCLING

• HOOP HOUSE CONTROL FARMER MARKETING

• FINDING FARMING SITES

• VEGGIE WASHING

• SOCIAL OUTREACH

• OPEN-SOURCE COPYRIGHT ISSUES

• HARVESTING

• INTEGRATION W/ SUPERMARKETS

• SOIL REMEDIATION

• IDENTIFYING UNDERUSED LAND

• SOIL TESTING

• BARNRAISING

• PEDAL POWERED THINGS

• TOOL SHARING NETWORKS

• FARMHACK

• EDUCATION

• BARTER NETWORKS

• BRANDING

• FARM TO SCHOOL

• FARM PARTIES

• RISD’S ROLE IN FARMING

• POP-UP FARMS

• INSTRUCTION MANUALS

• SHADE STRUCTURES

• CONNECTING WITH RURAL FARMERS

• SOLAR PUMPS

• ROOFTOP FARMING

• AQUAPONIC SYSTEM

• ANIMALS IN THE CITY

• SCALING UP SMALL OPERATIONS

• TRANSPORTATION

• CHICKEN COOPS

• REDUCING THE COST OF GOOD FOOD

• BEES

• POTLUCKING • EXERICSE • HEALTH • FIGHT OBESITY • YOGA SHOVELING • ANIMAL FEEDS • MILKING • COMPOST TURNING • FOOD PROCESSING • PRESERVES • PICKLING • JERKY MAKING

• NETWORKING ACROSS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

• SYSTEMS FOR FINDING LABOR WITHOUT MONEY • DOCUMENTATION STRATEGIES

• COMMUNITY DINNERS

• PUBLICITY

• TEMPORARY GROWING STRUCTURES • MOBILE URBAN AG • WINTER COMPOST

WATER ISSUES

PROBLEM: MOBILE VEGETABLE WASHING STATION

PROBLEM: RAINWATER COLLECTION TO DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

PROBLEM: MOVABLE HOOPHOUSE FOR CLIMATE CONTROL

PROBLEM: HEATING GROWBEDS WITH COMPOST

SOIL ISSUES

PROBLEM: WORM BIN SYSTEMS

PROBLEM: COMPOST TEA EXTRACTORS

PROBLEM: DESIGN A COMPOST COLLECTION NETWORK

INFRASTRUCTURAL ISSUES

PROBLEM: STORAGE SYSTEMS AND TOOL SHARING NETWORKS

PROBLEM: GRAPHIC AND SOCIAL NETWORKS TO DOCUMENT AND SHARE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS: WHO DOES THE WORK? HOW TO TARGET A FOCUSED AND DIVERSE AUDIENCE?

. EXAMPLE

PROJECT

-DOCUMENT -MAKE -PLAN -EVENT

FITNESS FARM

Abstract: Fitness Farm is an event designed to harness the latent work potential of excercise. Club Fitness reports that 45.5 million people had gym club memberships, generating over $19.1 billion in business. Fitness Farm is a program to make it easy to match up those who want to work for free and those who need work. The concept is simple, a van will meet at a predecided location, pick up members and drop them off at a farm. Like a fitness gym, users will have the option to work in various ways designed to maximize physical activity and help farms with menial tasks.

EVENT GIVE IT A NAME:

FITNESS FARM

WRITE A PROGRAM:

SITE

TRANSPORTATION and OTHER REQ. EQUIPMENT INCLUDING THE EXISTING COMMUNITY

BRANDING MARKETING AND AUDIENCE

INCENTIVES AND SKILLS LEARNED

SITES TO TRAVEL TO

DOCUMENT:

(1) GREEN GYM (4) ECO-GYM

(2) WWOOF-ING

(3) PERMABLITZ

(5) EXERCISE ELECTRICITY

MAKE: Planning Diagrams Dig post holes

Shovel manure

Lift haybales

chase chickens

split firewood

MAKE:

Possible Design Object

proper posture for full leg press

wheelbarrow

pull-up bar mounted beneath handles

PLAN Execution: Contact: Liam Turkle Brooklyn NY 978 808 3867 liamturkle@gmail.com Brooklyn

Incentives: Fun Credit Creative value Business Opportunity

Providence

FITNESS FARM

FITNESS FARM Abstract: Fitness Farm is an event designed to harness the

latent work potential of excercise. Club Fitness reports that 45.5 million people had gym club memberships, generating over $19.1 billion in business. Fitness Farm is a program to make it easy to match up those who want to work for free and those who need work. The concept is simple, a van will meet at a predecided location, pick up members and drop them off at a farm. Like a fitness gym, users will have the option to work in various ways designed to maximize physical activity and help farms with menial tasks.

Will Need: A list of possible farms interest from the fitness community

Flyer

Fitness Centers in Providence

--> UPLOAD TO FARMHACK.NET

Strategies of Scaling Up: WHAT WE CAN DO TOMORROW? • Test out the idea with a group of friends and a local farm • Follow up with Olivia Rodgers who may be interested in researching this project in her thesis at RISD

HOW BIG CAN THIS GET?

• Make flyers and commit to driving a van once a month • Focus on RISD students as initial audience • Seek funding opportunities, market it as an art project

• Start a simple blog to help expand the network.

• Talk to local gym members, see if an instructor is interested, or better yet, a gym that is willing to endorse Fitness Farm

• Are participants willing to pay a small fee for this experience?

• Is there a potential barter system that works?

• Is there a strategy for outreaching to undocumented workers in a non-monetary economy?

• This project could expand into extensive social network that rethinks common ideas about labor and fair wages.

• As interst grows projects could become more ambitious and explore different areas of work.

GENERATE PROMPTS

F WHAT DO YOU DO WELL? F WHAT IS A PROJECT OR F PROBLEM YOU WANT TO WORK YOUR NAME

ON?

HUMAN/OBJECT SCALE

WATER ISSUES

SOIL ISSUES

GROWING STRUCTURES

INFRASTRUCTURAL ISSUES

URBAN/NETWORK SCALE