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  •   Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat

    Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
    Edward Dodington

    Posted by brkt.org | Friday, September 10, 2010

    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.




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