We build the way we farm. We factory produce our homes and we factory farm our food. The way we build reflects the way we view ourselves in relationship to the beings that we farm and consume. We build walls, delineate one species’ space from anothers’, give preference to some domesticated species (canine and feline) and reject the majority of others -- we house ourselves in private homes down long cul-de-sac and keep to ourselves. Currently the two trends, farming and living, appear to mutually reinforce the other. Might a change in one practice influence a corresponding change in the other?
Edward Dodington is a Houston-based artist, designer and entrepreneur.
On Farming - Contents
BRACKET [on farming]
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
The Productive Surface
Performative Landscapes
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
Globalgaelisation
Farm Logic
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
Recycling Takes Command
Your Town Tomorrow
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Cloud Skippers
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds
AGER-AGRI
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
Aquaculture Seascape Park
Chia Mesa
What We Are Is What We Eat
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
The Building That Farms…
GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
Microcosmic Aquaculture
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
Beyond Disney
Hydrating Luanda
On Farming
Food Matrix
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Landgrab City
Harvesting Space
Project::Farm