BLDG BLOG "Farmland World"

Image: "Farmland World" by Design With Company (Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks)

A recent winner of the Animal Architecture Awards, "Farmland World makes the human-animal encounter spectacular, proposing an absurdly over-the-top farm animal theme park—a 'human/machine/animal hybrid adventure-land.'"

 "Part theme park and part working farm, guests arrive to the resort via train and stay as part of 1-day, 3-day or 5-day experience packages. Capitalizing on both recent governmental investments in high-speed rail infrastructure and the plentiful subsidies for farming, the network of resorts combine crowd-sourced farm labor with eco-tainment."

 

This is an interesting commentary on the disconnection of people from the foods and agriculture that sustains us. As an educational tool, this innovative "resort" may make you want to go vegetarian, or may help you learn to make more sustainable food choices.

  

(Plus the park is pretty.)

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School starts again tomorrow, so I'm not sure how regularly I'll be able to keep updating. My plan is to squeeze in time to post some more cool stuff as I find it, but with crazy deadlines and working almost every morning, this very well may not happen. We'll see!

To those of you who are starting back tomorrow, or who recently returned to your classes: Good luck in the upcoming school year!