Fantasy → Farming Depot
2023 Fall
Program: Urban Farm
Instructor: Amber Bartosh and Vanessa Lastrucci
Site: Highgate London
Collaborators: Yifan Shen, Yue Zhuo
The Collective Urban Farming Depot is conceptualized as a radical solution and a contested urban fantasy. Through provocatively choreographing the food system and public participation on a limited site footprint, the project attempts to open up a discussion regarding London's food insecurity, machine production, and human relation to land.
The Farming Depot is an alternative system for the problematic urban food supply system, embodying our critique of the existing food system. It's also a post-industrial monument that nods to the industrial history of London. It is not considered a benevolent and utopian solution but rather an opportunity to radically reimagine the productive method for food, a basic necessity for human survival, in the context of technological advancements in the third decade of the 21st century.