Globalgaelisation is a consideration on the delicate balance of a social organization based on the exploitation of a sole resource.
Algae could be an extraordinary source of energy which could satisfy multiple needs: alimentation, gas and electricity production, thermoplastic and textile manufacturing.
The multiple functionalities of this resource allow us to easily transfer all the mechanisms of our contemporary society, entirely based on oil, towards an all-algae future.
Could the intelligence of these organisms, which make photosynthesis and the ozone layer possible, sustain on its own such a vast complexity and mass consumption?
And what if it was precisely today's main advantage offered by algae- its capacity of creating energy and oxygen from Carbon dioxide- that would create a new unbalance in the ecosystem?
Will there be a day when we need to artificially re-inject carbon dioxide in our atmosphere?
atelier eem [iim] is a multidisciplinary office based in Paris, founded by Estelle Nicod (Switzerland, 1978), Francesca Liggieri (Italy, 1979) and Marc Blume (Germany, 1976).
On Farming - Contents
BRACKET [on farming]
Hydrating Luanda
Microcosmic Aquaculture
Landgrab City
Performative Landscapes
Chia Mesa
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Farm Logic
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
Cloud Skippers
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
Harvesting Space
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
The Building That Farms…
Food Matrix
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
On Farming
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
Post-Agricultural Speculations
GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System
AGER-AGRI
Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
Beyond Disney
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
The Productive Surface
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
What We Are Is What We Eat
Recycling Takes Command
Project::Farm
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Your Town Tomorrow
Aquaculture Seascape Park
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds