Update
The first issue, designed by Thumb and published by Actar, was released in the Fall of 2010. Order a copy on Amazon now.
ISSUE #1: ON FARMING
Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information,energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming a remutable, parametric, and efficient. From terraforming to foodsheds to crowdsourcing, farming often involves the management of the natural mediated by the technologic. Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure,urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.
For more information about Issue #1, please visit the archived website.
BRACKET [at extremes]
On Farming - Contents
About Bracket
Project::Farm
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
Chia Mesa
Aquaculture Seascape Park
Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
AGER-AGRI
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
The Productive Surface
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Landgrab City
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Farm Logic
What We Are Is What We Eat
Performative Landscapes
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System
Microcosmic Aquaculture
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
Your Town Tomorrow
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Recycling Takes Command
The Building That Farms…
Globalgaelisation
Food Matrix
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
Cloud Skippers
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
On Farming
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
Hydrating Luanda
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
Harvesting Space
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
Beyond Disney
Line 13 – Superlinearity
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds