![]() MIT Press.ĭiSalvo, Carl, and Thomas Lodato, Laura Fries, Beth Schechter, Beth, & Thomas Barnwell. In DIY Citizenship: Critical making and social media, edited by Megan Bohler and Matt Ratto. The Growbot Garden Project as DIY Speculation through Design. Critical Making as Materializing the Politics of Design. The project included multiple site visits to farms and dairies in the Atlanta region, two outreach events and three design workshops in Atlanta, and 10 days of workshops and exhibitions as part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA.Ĭoncept and Research: Laura Fries, Thomas Lodato, Beth Schecter, Andy Quitmeyer, Thomas Barnwell, and Carl DiSalvoĭiSalvo, Carl. These representations and prototypes were documented and shared through public forums to provoke consideration of new assemblages emerging at the intersection of technology and agriculture. More than a discursive platform, the workshops were design platforms: opportunities to collectively make speculative representations and prototypes of possible futures. The workshops drew equally from practices of participatory design, critical design, social practice art, and DIY culture. The growBot Garden project was structured around a series of public and participatory workshops that brought together diverse constituencies to think critically about, discuss, and debate agricultural technologies for small-scale agriculture. ![]() ![]() The growBot garden project explored these questions by bringing together designers, artists, farmers, and other food producers to ask: How might robotics and sensing technologies be used to support local small-scale agriculture? We ask, Can design and engineering now play a role in shifting us toward more sustainable modes of agriculture? What kinds of products, services, and systems would need to be designed and engineered to enable that subversion and shift? How will automation and monitoring technologies need to be refigured for these contexts – if indeed they are still useful? Engineering and design played a role in advancing the culture and practices of agri-business by producing products, systems, and services to advance and support large-scale corporate farming. Over the past 100 years, agriculture practices have been radically altered in Western societies, spurred by the development and application of a host of technologies designed to automate and monitor food production.
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