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Future Farm Forms : Architecture, Data, Agriculture
Future Farm Forms : Architecture, Data, Agriculture
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Author(s): Lyster, Clare
ISBN No.: 9781638400615
Pages: 192
Year: 202606
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 62.03
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Future Farm Forms is a research and design project that explores how synergies between cloud-based information technologies and agricultural production catalyze the design of new farm typologies with expanded program and collective space.The overwhelming amount of storage required to accommodate society's reliance on cloud-based systems is impacting the design of our cities and regions. Hyperscale big box data farms occupy vast footprints, demand enormous power, and release warm exhaust air into the atmosphere. To be sure, new typologies of cloud storage that sensibly address resources, land use and energy are needed but also those that envision data infrastructure as a catalyst for more productive and cultural agency in the built environment. Future Farm Forms explores the potential co-benefits between data and agriculture (farm + farm) toward the design of unique" info-agri adjacencies" that reshape the countryside and the city and that offer sustainable and artful relationships between food, land, and the socio-technical assemblages that underpin urban life. Through analysis, narrative and speculative design, the book reveals new typologies of architecture and landscape space that emerge from the synergies between data and agriculture conducted through three lines of inquiry: Firstly, as an environmental strategy, through a process of industrial symbiosis, whereby the waste heat from data farms is used as a resource for greenhouse farming and other forms of agricultural production; secondly, from the perspective of the territorial, the book mines the organizational formats of renewable energy, agriculture and data storage toward the design of more holistic productive landscapes; and lastly, from a theoretical standpoint it leverages the ascendancy of information systems in agriculture more broadly as a lens to speculate on the increasing integration of technology and nature. In summary, the book seeks new formal and material relationships between the metabolic and the socio-technical for a more meaningful connection between consumers, their digital lifestyle, resources, and food production and that critically respond to current challenges in contemporary food flows and data storage.


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