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The new greenhouse built entirely from recycled windows and scrapped wood from around the city. Now growing wheatgrass (for Liqwheat Weizengrassaft aus Berlin).

http://www.weizengrassaft-berlin.de/

Thanks Melina Papageorgiou for the photos!

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Berlin Farm Lab

exhibition opening tonight at Pasajist, İstiklal Cad. Halep Pasajı No:62 C blok 109, Beyoğlu, Istanbul. 19.00

  The last years we have experienced a blooming Do-It-Yourself culture on housing and living. Some people, motivated by the ecological and economical crisis, start rethinking the way they we live in the city and transform their houses into small food and energy production stations, aiming to zero footprint. This is not new; similar attempts have been practiced in the 60’s-70’s. What has changed since then, is a combination of the growing pressure of the ecological crisis and the discovery of the Internet; the latter lead to an awareness of alternative models of habitation and also helped to spread technical knowledge. For the first time, people develop by themselves what the industry does not. The so-called makers subculture grew also with the pressure of the economical crisis, after 2008.

  Valentina Karga works on the idea of urban self-sufficiency. She is creating a manual for a “Machine for Sustainable Living”, which is open for adaptation to needs, aesthetics, culture, availability of time, budget and resources. The design is a combination of systems that already exist, although combined in a nothing-is-wasted logic. The artist uses only open source knowledge; she studies DIY and how-to youtube tutorials, then she builds her own interpretation of the systems and uploads her own DIY tutorial. She has created a platform, Berlin Farm Lab, where she shares all the input and output knowledge.