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