This is a project associated with The Georgia Institute of Technology's Public Design Workshop, which is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Our goals are simple. We design participatory design events with small scale agricultural producers, to brainstorm the ways that robotics, machine sensing, and other technologies could be applied to local organic farming.
Our project focuses on developing design practices that are socially engaged, articulate important issues, build technological capacity within community participants – and, along the way, build social networks for discourse and action, with clear critical thinking.
In the Spring 2010 semester, we are developing a pilot participatory design workshop with local small-scale food producers. This growBot symposium will engage farmers, gardeners, and other agriculturalists in the process of brainstorming technological innovations for small-scale food production.
Full documentation of this research can be found at here. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, award # ISE-0741685.
