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growBot

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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.

 

Domestibeast

domestibeast

Domestibeasts are modular, mobile, learning social robots that function as live/work environments for humans inhabitants in a post-collapse suburban landscape. Humans have a parasitic relationship to the Domestibeast, which is outfitted with its own set of sensors as well as communication devices seamlessly networked with all other Domestibeasts within range.

Domestibeasts use suburban infrastructure to survive, autonomously seeking out water, food, roads, electricity and other features of infrastructure for their human inhabitants. Domestibeasts learn from one another and share information about the location of resources and how best to move around the suburban landscape.

 

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City Sense

city sense

City Sense exposes students to environmental sensing and demonstrates its connection to public health. Students use a mock sensor to explore 2-dimensional representations of the city.

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