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POBLENOU OPEN FOOD DISTRICT DIY FOOD PRODUCTION CATALOGUE FabFeed is a project of Iaac, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia at Master in City and Technogy in 2016/2017 by: Students: Frederick Ajjoub, Asier Eguilaz Faculty: Tomás Díez, Mathilde Marengo with Mariana Quintero
A movement of practitioners is emerging who are applying Open Source philosophy to food systems work. Our goal in this catalogue is to recognize and share the power of this fledgling movement. “For food systems work, Open Source means open ideas, knowledge, plans, documents, tools, code, data, and so on, all open for use and improvement by others. Instead of privatizing and patenting intellectual property, we’re sharing designs and building off each other’s innovations.” - Kirsten Larsen, Open Food Network
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FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS:
GEOPONICS HYDROPONICS AEROPONICS AQUAPONICS SPIRULINA FOOD COMPUTER
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GEOPONICS
The term geoponics refers to growing plants in a normal soil. This is in contrast to hydroponics where the plants are grown in water, or aeroponics where the plants are grown suspended in air.
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HYDROPONICS
Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. The plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the mineral solution, or the roots may be supported by an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel.
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AEROPONICS
Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium. Unlike hydroponics, which uses a liquid nutrient solution as a growing medium and essential minerals to sustain plant growth; or aquaponics which uses water and fish waste, aeroponics is conducted without a growing medium. It is sometimes considered a type of hydroponics, since water is used in aeroponics to transmit nutrients.
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AQUAPONICS
Aquaponics refers to any system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In an aquaponic system, water from an aquaculture system is fed to a hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down by nitrifying bacteria initially into nitrites and subsequently into nitrates, which are utilized by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then recirculated back to the aquaculture system.
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SPIRULINA
Spirulina represents a biomass of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that can be consumed by humans and other animals. There are two species, Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima. Arthrospira is cultivated worldwide; used as a dietary supplement as well as a whole food; and is also available in tablet, flake and powder form.
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FOOD COMPUTER
The Food Computer is a controlled-environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to control and monitor climate, energy, and plant growth inside of a specialized growing chamber. Each specific set of conditions can be thought of as a climate recipe, and each recipe produces unique results in the phenotypes of the plants.
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