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]
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
AGER-AGRI
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Farm Logic
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
What We Are Is What We Eat
Hydrating Luanda
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
Landgrab City
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Performative Landscapes
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Beyond Disney
Project::Farm
Aquaculture Seascape Park
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
The Productive Surface
Microcosmic Aquaculture
Globalgaelisation
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
On Farming
Harvesting Space
Cloud Skippers
Chia Mesa
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
Food Matrix
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
Your Town Tomorrow
Recycling Takes Command
The Building That Farms…