We realised that the main issues we had to deal with when farming in the sky would be:

• Light - design so that each section recieves enough
• Water - where from? - where does it go?
  
• Waste - how do we dispose of the waster created?
• Wind - the system needs to work unaffected by strong winds
• birds - protection of veg?

Because our aim was to visualise a way in which farming in the city could become a reality without creating new buildings and also working with limited space we began to develop our ideas so that the 'farming' could be possible to achieve using existing buildings e.g. tower blocks, high rise flats. Our ideas began to develop into creating a much more adaptable way of growing
food on tiles that could be taken down and moved about more easily.











As Part of the 'Teach-in' lectures we went to on monday there were follow-up sessions based on designing for the future. Micheal Herrman Organised an open workshop at the uni and got some local people whose work revolves around sustainability to join in.

We each chose realistic projects we feel is important to work on and collaborated in groups.

I chose to work towards making Vertical Farming in cities more realistic in the near future.

We began sketching how we imagined growing vegetables in a city might look - possibly a very tall greenhouse with vertical hanging layers of growth?