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