Urban agriculture

Nuruljannah Mohamad1092700304MMD3213

Urban Agriculture

Urban agriculture

• agriculture landscape involving food growing and keeping animal in urban or built-up areas

• contributes to local economic development•  greening of the city• productive reuse of urban wastes

Project Proposal

Importance of urban agriculture

• Food security and nutrition• Economic impacts• Contributions to urban ecology• Social impacts

Potential problems with urban agriculture.

• Polluted or contaminated soils• Toxic chemicals• Use of water• Theft of produce and breaking laws to plant on

some vacant lots

Analysis

• Respondent believe we can do urban agriculture in urban area.• Lot of benefit to our self and community.• Agriculture can be boring and tiring but also feel satisfaction and

exciting.• Lot of unused thing can be reused for this urban agriculture (ex:

bottle, broken cup, etc.)

Criticality

• What can we make urban agriculture more interesting?• Do they aware the benefit of urban agriculture to their life?• What can we get from urban agriculture?• What material that we can use as a base to do urban agriculture?• Will it be worth doing urban agriculture?

Research & Analysis

An example of planting a tree using recyclable material

The plant can be used as a decoration in home or office

Any space can be use to plant the tree. It doesn’t have to be in the large area

Idea Development

Interactive installationWebcam will be used for audience interact

with installationConcept = spaceVirtually create an agriculture

Idea 1

Idea 2

Idea 3 (chose this idea for final installation)

Geographical

• Agriculture usually been practice in rural area only because of land area.

• In city have limited land area. Full with building and road.

Contextual Studies

Flowchart

Content Development

Storyboard

• Space is one of the problem from my topic, urban agriculture. My project is basically an interactive installation art. The installation is to create a virtual urban agriculture.

• A white prop represent an urban city. The prop will be a few boxes(buildings). In upper of the prop there will be a projector and a webcam. Projector will be projecting a  video/animation  from the object detected through webcam.  The object will be small stone with different color. From the different stone color, a different video/animation will appear. The  video/animation   will be based on a few kinds of vegetables and fruit. The small stone is used to represent a seed

A projector and webcam is place above the prop so webcam can detect the stone and play the video/animation

Place the stone with different color on top of the prop.

Webcam will detect the stone.

A projector will project the video/animation as the stone is detected.

Floor Plan

Side view

Floor view

Software & Tools

• Processing• Adobe Flash• Webcam• Projector

o The software & tools might have some changes in the future

Urban agriculture is involving food growing and keeping animal in urban or built-up areas. The major factor why urban agriculture are rarely seen because of space.

Agro space is an installation art that stimulates the space, where the audience can create their own space for the plant growing. The concept of the installation is to create a virtual urban agriculture. The audience can place the seed (small stone) in to the city (prop) where the plant can growth. The seed (small stone) will growth into the tree (video/animation). Through this the audience can experience in creating a virtual urban agriculture. As they can create their own space for agriculture.

Final Synopsis

Teaser Video