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Share Your Vision of Vertical Farming
September 26, 2018
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As part of the EU project, “Cultivating Engagement”, we would like to partner together with you to revision the concept of vertical farming! We would love to see and hear what you personally think of as vertical farming, and what images…
October 5th event: Mini-Makeathon
September 19, 2018
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On October 5th, students and young professionals will come together at the Design Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands to develop a new food concept for vertically farmed lettuce. The Mini-Makeathon is from 9.00 to 17.00. Registration…
Help us analyse vertical farming on Twitter!
September 12, 2018
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Since May 2017, the Cultivating Engagement team have been collecting tweets about vertical farming using some software specifically designed for Twitter research (Borra & Rieder 2014). Our Twitter dataset currently comprises over…
Re-visioning Vertical Farming - Food for Thought
September 05, 2018
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Though it officially kicked off at the beginning of the year, the Vertical Farming project began to really ‘cultivate engagement’ at the start of July when it made its way to the Deutsches Museum in Munich for a three-day citizen…
Is vertical farming really sustainable?
August 29, 2018
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Vertical farming uses empty buildings to renew neglected neighborhoods, it uses less water than traditional agriculture, but how else can it be sustainable? Here are some advantages and limitations to vertical farming
The origins of indoor vertical farming
August 23, 2018
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Do you know how your food produce was cultivated historically?
July 5 event: Re-visioning Vertical Farming!
June 20, 2018
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Join us in this three-day citizen participation forum, as we invite you to share your vision of vertical farming through images, and to discuss with us the future of local and sustainable food systems. July 5th - 7th 2018 ∣ Deutsches…
Making sense of the terms in Vertical Farming
June 13, 2018
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What exactly is vertical farming? I know that I picture stacked layers of plants sprouting in organised rows inside some big, bright warehouse. This isn’t quite wrong. Columbia emeritus professor Dickson Despommier is credited for making…
Vertical Farming – what’s the deal anyway?
March 07, 2018
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The word farming evokes a range of sentiments. For me, I see images of the sun shining on green, open fields with animals grazing about. Depending where you’re from, this scene may vary, but more or less, we probaby have a similar feel.…