The Rural Fungus Development Project

Toward the goal of restructuring rural development (towns, villages) in a sustainable manner.

Our clients would be governments, countries, farmer co-ops (or co-op agencies)

Approach would be quick survey, stay+map+plan+develop.

This would allow for cellular reconnection for fungi across the landscape matrix.

Client/Collaboration/Work with us

The choices are simple: Co-creation, or procreation.

Cocreation

We believe that collaboration is the key to creating any change in the world, and basing our work on this, we are open to working with anyone who is interested in, in the words of Mahatma Gandhi, being the change they wish to see in the world.

ALMs, Resident Associations, Government agencies, NGOs and Private Citizens can use our services and advisories to gain valuable insight into design/development and implementation of sustainable development mechanisms at any scale.

-We also provide opportunities for hands-on learning and believe that students should be involved in our work

We wish to work with the enthusiasm and creativity of our young people and to create the opportunity for such people to learn, work and grow with us.

CONCEPT :CITY FORESTRY/PUBLIC FOOD FOREST

What does this have to do with me?

Everything.

Our cities need transformation from the inside out. This means working with the natural systems we have around us in order to set up a new kind of city development paradigm. Forest cities.

HOW

Collaboratively

With the help of urban agriculture, we can begin to grow a few crops, working on

vertical surfaces of the city.

Horizontal spaces, planned and developed as forest, will allow for many levels of interaction in cities, and clear traffic congestion completely if designed appropriately (ahem…we have concepts if you want to talk).

In all this forestry, wood and biomass become the primary resources, producing a system of energy, edible matter and secondary (non timber forest) products for economic benefit.

Wood for smoke and fire are also needed based on season.

By creating a forestry regime in the city, not only are the trees given back their respect and place in society, they can be actively worked with to provide for neighborhood needs.

Sense of space is very important, not only for local communities to adapt to their surroundings, but even for refugee communities, and working this angle, we could create healthy, collaborative, diverse, and dynamic cities, as is the need today. Not only that, it looks that it is one of the ready to catch waves forming on the conceptual reef of the human movement.

Embedded technologies and 'Interaction' landscapes

Interaction landscapes are an idea that across species and technologies, that we may be able to, through our current understanding in science, technology, and living systems, 'talk' to the architecture as well as the ecological systems around us.

By creating 'embedded' ecological technologies into current urban architecture, through festivals, art, scrap re-engineering and gardening, we could create a new level of urban architecture, that ties people back into the spaces they inhabit. By creating these systems in small scale, and in easily replicable architectural and time-based construction models, cloning becomes easy for anyone.

Sharing economy and pop up 'beacons' such as this are already beginning to show results, and communities are again slowly awakening to their spaces and environments. A move to demonstrate such projects exists in the realm of festivals, however, urban planners and land management agencies must also be willing to work for the future, being able to merge such decentralised technologies into the city plans.