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Microcosmic Aquaculture
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We imagine a future where the vast and deep expanses of the ocean will teem with overabundant floating gelatinous reefs. Human's will be nourished physically and aesthetically by encouraging new floating worlds of reefs that sustain large quantities of harvestable wild and captive fish.
Farming in this project is not viewed as a monoculture but the creation of a new ecology where wild and captive wildlife are 'raised' and their aesthetic potential is enjoyed by future divers and fisherman.
By encouraging the establishment of new ecosystems contemporary farmers as well as the public can reap sustenance and aesthetic
benefits from environmental stewardship. The ocean is a vast resource that can accommodate more life when the proper conditions are met. These conditions are minimal and new ecologies can flourish around the simplest substrate. In the
ocean it is not a matter of making space for life but by making objects that attract life. By combining manufactured products with plant material we will help to define a new bio-engineered aesthetic associated with qualitative
benefits that disturbs romantic desires to return to nature and environmentalism. Our ominous orbs will provide the structure from which this
aesthetic will arise.
The premise of this proposal relies on the dissolvability and permeability of the orb's gelatinous wall section. The giant orbs have a
pre-defined lifespan based on a customizable recipe that makes up the gelatinous mix after which the walls will completely dissolve and the orb collapses. This allows the spheres to be both reef and farm, the outer surface can nourish,
shelter and provide substrate for various wild animals while the interior can be used as an unmanned an un-maintained fish hatchery or aquaculture pen. A longer lifespan can be accommodated by increasing the mixture's density and food can be embedded and released at specified times in unison with the
dissolution of the walls. To enhance circulation, nourishment ane aesthetic value, growth on the orb's surface can be customized in advance with specific additives located at key locations to attract or detract beneficial wild plants
and animals.
The advantage of this methodology is that farmed fish are grown within a larger reef system that manages and cleanses the waste and accumulation of typical farms. Large colonies of wild fish and shellfish will be attracted to the new substrate and can be harvested by a farm's owner of may be made available to the public.
These orbs will not only be productive and efficient farms, but the giant spherical reefs will become an aestheticized and living
object to be explored by divers and recreational fisherman. Shape and gelatin mixture will produce different living conditions and various reef typologies, no two will be the same. Once set loose in the wild the orbs will literally
take on a life of their own, following currents and attracting life wherever they go, possibly even mingling with other spheres of various ages, sharing their ecosystems and giving them away as they collapse and die. In the ocean
this growth can happen very quickly within months of being born the orbs will
be covered with living material becoming new edible living worlds.
Farming in this project is not viewed as a monoculture but the creation of a new ecology where wild and captive wildlife are 'raised' and their aesthetic potential is enjoyed by future divers and fisherman.
By encouraging the establishment of new ecosystems contemporary farmers as well as the public can reap sustenance and aesthetic
benefits from environmental stewardship. The ocean is a vast resource that can accommodate more life when the proper conditions are met. These conditions are minimal and new ecologies can flourish around the simplest substrate. In the
ocean it is not a matter of making space for life but by making objects that attract life. By combining manufactured products with plant material we will help to define a new bio-engineered aesthetic associated with qualitative
benefits that disturbs romantic desires to return to nature and environmentalism. Our ominous orbs will provide the structure from which this
aesthetic will arise.
The premise of this proposal relies on the dissolvability and permeability of the orb's gelatinous wall section. The giant orbs have a
pre-defined lifespan based on a customizable recipe that makes up the gelatinous mix after which the walls will completely dissolve and the orb collapses. This allows the spheres to be both reef and farm, the outer surface can nourish,
shelter and provide substrate for various wild animals while the interior can be used as an unmanned an un-maintained fish hatchery or aquaculture pen. A longer lifespan can be accommodated by increasing the mixture's density and food can be embedded and released at specified times in unison with the
dissolution of the walls. To enhance circulation, nourishment ane aesthetic value, growth on the orb's surface can be customized in advance with specific additives located at key locations to attract or detract beneficial wild plants
and animals.
The advantage of this methodology is that farmed fish are grown within a larger reef system that manages and cleanses the waste and accumulation of typical farms. Large colonies of wild fish and shellfish will be attracted to the new substrate and can be harvested by a farm's owner of may be made available to the public.
These orbs will not only be productive and efficient farms, but the giant spherical reefs will become an aestheticized and living
object to be explored by divers and recreational fisherman. Shape and gelatin mixture will produce different living conditions and various reef typologies, no two will be the same. Once set loose in the wild the orbs will literally
take on a life of their own, following currents and attracting life wherever they go, possibly even mingling with other spheres of various ages, sharing their ecosystems and giving them away as they collapse and die. In the ocean
this growth can happen very quickly within months of being born the orbs will
be covered with living material becoming new edible living worlds.
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