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An underground rice and vegetable field has been planted beneath an office building in Tokyo's Otemachi business district. This urban farm - in what used to be the vault of a major bank - is maintained using computer-controlled artificial light and temperature management. It was brought into being by a personnel company as a means of providing agricultural training to young people who are having trouble finding employment and middle-aged people in search of a second career.
via: Make
"As part of our ongoing investigation of viable and sustainable solutions to generating alternative power, our heads really turned when we came across this proposal for a power-generating “wind dam” by UK architects Chetwoods Associates."
via Inhabitat
Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion turned a São Paulo transport tunnel into a kind of graphic charnel house, lined with skulls.
He created the images, the project's website explains, "by selectively scraping off layers of black soot deposited on those walls in the short life of this orifice of modernity."
via BLDGBLOG
(quite old, i know. but it fits in here perfectly, doesn't it?)
Ecology, Art, and Technology (aka ecoarttech) formed in 2005 with the aim of working with digital and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art about the environmentality of modern life.
Link: http://ecoarttech.net/
The Seed Project is a global environmental installation where people all over the world are planting seeds, creating individual art projects creating a new world.
Link: http://the-seed-project.org/
Coined in 1999, the term ecovention (ecology + invention) describes an artist initiated project that employs an inventive strategy to physically transform an ecosystem. This exciting publication has been designed and written to attract a diverse audience. Ecovention juxtaposes interesting ecological facts alongside case studies of projects artists have realized, in tandem with scientists and community members. [from: amazon]
Online Version: http://greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/
What kind of practices will motivate environmental concern, and how will this concern then reduce instances of environmental salience in American society? What events can urge one to adopt an ecological/environmental worldview, and then to act according to this worldview? How is physical space manipulated to fulfill the needs of human endeavors and also to ensure the ability of the land to regenerate itself and also allow the regeneration of other species that rely on that land for habitation? How do we cohabit this space? How is art involved in this conversation? [...]
Link: http://megrimm.net/entry/30/cohabit_cooperative_networks_a/projects#body
