On Farming: [bracket] Call for Entries

[bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership.

ISSUE #1: ON FARMING
The first edition of [bracket] is centered around the theme of farming. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. From terraforming to foodsheds to crowdsourcing, farming often involves the management of the natural mediated by the technologic. Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

Submission:
Please submit unpublished work (images, text, sound, video) addressing the theme of On Farming, including: urbanisms, emergent architectures, landscape interventions, crop circle mappings; irrefutable evidence; visionary manifestos for the future; apocalyptic scare tactics; survival strategies and recipes. Please indicate which sub-theme your submission applies to.
Upload submission proposals as a PDF in the form of:
- 1000-2000 word text with images / drawings
- Design images (built or unbuilt) / drawings with 300-500 word description
- Video
- Audio

Jurors:
Fritz Haeg, Kate Orff, Heather Ring, Michael Speaks, Mason White, Nathalie de Vries.

Schedule:
On Farming Call for Entries opens: October 22, 2008
On Farming Submissions due: February 2, 2009
Jury Review: February 2009
Notification and Editing: March 2009
Book release: October 2009

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