My vision for the thesis project is starting to get more clear in my head. My goal is to explore sustainability, biodesign and fabrication, in order to design and create the urban garden of the future; therefore, there’s an added layer of speculative design to my approach.
I started looking into the following topics:
Sustainability
Food production
Biotech and Biodesign
Fabrication
Although I’m researching all 4 areas simultaneously, I’m diving deeper into sustainability, since its principles will serve as a compass while I research the other areas. The first concept in sustainability that I’m investigating right now is circular economy and cradle to cradle. I watched this talk by William McDonough, and I’m inspired and fascinated by this design principles. I’m already wondering how I can apply his idea of designing buildings like a tree to my project and use biomimicry as a way to create a thriving ecosystem of biological and technological material/nutrients .
I also watched a talk by Neri Oxman, a biodesigner and professor at MIT. I’m fascinated by her idea of organic and generative method of fabrication, inspired by nature.