Arphenotype – Floating Permaculture
Arphenotype – Floating Permaculture
Dietmar Köring is an architect, researcher, and educator living in Cologne. He currently teaches Digital Design at TU Braunschweig, Virtual Realities & Experimental Architecture at the University Innsbruck ./Studio3, Technology and Design at the Cologne Institute for Architectural Design / C-I-A-D and is director of the architectural research office Arphenotype, where he focuses on blurring the boundaries of different artistic disciplines. He is also assistant professor for Smart Grid research at Institute for Corporate Architecture at the Cologne Technical University.
His research was awarded by the Jaap Bakema Fellowship / NAI. His works has been internationally published and exhibited, including Heide Museum of Contemporary Arts Asutralia, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin. He has given internationally lectures and workshops. Dietmar is co-founder of the narrative research network .horhizon.com.
Project: Floating Permaculture as a autonomous system designed for an awareness of food, water, en–ergy, natural systems and urban rethinking – self sufficient and resourceful. Today young architects trying to bring farming components back into the urban environment, but rarely as an autonomous system rather often it is still based on fossil fuel elements, transportation and use of non recycled fresh–water. Also it is fact that it is not possible to create farms on every roof due to static, orientation and shadow from next door buildings.
Floating Permaculture deals with the futuristic but real scenario that in short term either through flooding or due to overpopulation, normal farming as we know, is not longer possible. Food production becomes a vulnerable system linked to fossil fuel. Proposed is that those floating reactors could “swarm” out in the North Sea linked to existing off-shore wind farms.
