BRACKET [on farming]
The first issue of [bracket], designed by Thumb and published by Actar, is now available on Amazon. [bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership. Heather was on the editorial board of the first edition [on Farming], and published an essay on Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future, which discusses the Wayward Plant exchanges.
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.
Click here to read an excerpt of Nomadic Allotments.