Hi,
the guy running the project is called Bartaku. you can find some info here:
http://okno.be/taxonomy/term/35
.k
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Atteqa <atteqa@???> wrote:
> Grow materials for solar cells, I'm very very interested!!!!!
>
> Can I get some more info?
>
> Regards
>
> Atteqa
>
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 13:28, "Kyd C." <frontierlab@???> wrote:
>
> Even here we're gardening! At OKNO in Brussels we have a new roof garden
> this year, a nice big one!
>
> In the eco-garden we blend the organic and the digital in one and the same
> nature. Here we explore how this fusion takes place: examining through
> digital means the growth, blossoming and decay of plants and insects
> submitted to natural elements.
>
> We're exploring the implementation of eco-garden-elements into wireless
> networks, both on micro level and on a city level. We research the physical
> connections between people, programs, sensor-networks and possible uses of
> the eco-garden.
>
> Bartaku is growing a spiral of plants to grow all the materials to make
> solar energy cells.
> Bees are arriving soon and we'll track their data as well.
>
> <http://www.okno.be>www.okno.be
>
> (maybe if you look online you'll catch me passing by the garden webcam!)
>
> If you have some garden project ideas, let us know and come visit!
>
> ++Kyd
> <http://www.okno.be>www.okno.be
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM, James Wallbank < <james@???>
> james@???> wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> There must be something in the air. Everyone is guerrilla gardening!
>>
>> Outside Access Space we have a small triangle of land which is our
>> herb-garden. The land is owned by the city - but they just leave it as
>> wasteland. We asked a project in Sheffield called "Grow Sheffield" to help
>> us plant it, after we saw what happened with a visit by the G8 politicians
>> to Sheffield in 2005.
>>
>> One day city workmen came along and planted beautiful flowers. A couple of
>> weeks later, the politicians and press visited Sheffield. Lovely flowers,
>> press impressed, job done! A couple of weeks after that, the workmen came
>> along and removed the flowers, leaving bare earth.
>>
>> After that we got involved with "Grow Sheffield".
>>
>> They have done projects like:
>>
>> * Used Googlemaps to plot the locations of unharvested fruit trees in the
>> city. (Many fruit trees are on public land, and NOBODY collects the fruit -
>> it just falls and rots!)
>> * Collect unharvested fruit and give it to people.
>> * Start a project to allow older people who cannot manage their gardens to
>> invite volunteers to plant food in their gardens.
>> * A really cool exhibition at Access Space:
>> <http://www.growsheffield.com/pages/groshefaccess.html>
>> http://www.growsheffield.com/pages/groshefaccess.html
>> * A city garden behind the building next to us. (Our old coffee grounds
>> and tea bags go there!)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> James
>> =====
>>
>> <kranenbu@???>kranenbu@??? wrote:
>>
>>> hey henk!
>>>
>>> ik loop binnenkort weer even binnen!
>>>
>>> a whole new world is opening up for me with the wildplukkers and
>>> patrice's
>>> urbanilists,
>>>
>>> greetings! rob
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, henk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> hey rob,
>>>>
>>>> a nearby movement is those of the "wildplukkers". Finding and eating
>>>> vegetables from what's available in your near neighborhood.
>>>>
>>>> <http://wildplukker.blogspot.com/>http://wildplukker.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>> grtz,
>>>> henk
>>>>
>>>> <kranenbu@???>kranenbu@??? wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Adam,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks! I wil go and have a talk with them this summer and report back,
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings, Rob
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Adam Thomas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Rob,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just had a visit from a friend who lived in Rotterdam for some time
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> we were just talking about the prevalence of guerilla gardening
>>>>>> there...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My Dutch not great, but more here I think:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <http://stadslandbouw.blogspot.com/>
>>>>>> http://stadslandbouw.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And, the global HQ of illicit green-fingers:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <http://guerrillagardening.org/>http://guerrillagardening.org/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I worked on a project for Dott 07 in which we managed to feed 1500
>>>>>> people at a 'town meal' in Middlesbrough (UK) from urban-farmed
>>>>>> produce
>>>>>> grown in parks, shopping centres, window boxes etc, so its very
>>>>>> possible :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best, Adam T
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <kranenbu@???>kranenbu@??? wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure if what is happening in Detroit, urban farming in
>>>>>>> deserted
>>>>>>> areas is something we will be seeing more but:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html>
>>>>>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> urban farming
>>>>>>> <http://www.urbanfarming.org/locations.htm>
>>>>>>> http://www.urbanfarming.org/locations.htm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/tooloose-letrek/1497119661/in/set-813247/>
>>>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tooloose-letrek/1497119661/in/set-813247/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <http://images.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=detroit%20farming&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi>
>>>>>>> http://images.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=detroit%20farming&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i find the pictures amazing and wonder if Rotterdam and Amsterdam
>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>> look the same in a few years,
>>>>>>> (after all, everything that happens in the states the dutch replicate
>>>>>>> after a year or five)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> by then I hope we have our urban farming brico kit!:)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings, Rob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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