Hello! Algae!

Keywords: Edible Algae, Automated eco system, Unsettling, Agricultural Challenge, Growing Population, Health, Vegan.

Material: Plastic, Glass

Design category: Product Design.

Time: Jan. 2020

Overview:

Humanity’s impact on the environment has become undeniable and will continue to manifest itself in ways already familiar to us, except on a grander scale. In a warmer world, heavier floods, more intense droughts, and unpredictable, violent, and increasingly frequent storms could become a new normal.

During the project, it will be explored the alternative approach towards urban farming by focusing on cultivating, harvesting and consuming ‘Spirulina’ in the urban context so as the to bridge the gap between the urban and yore natural as well as introducing ways in which the superfood becomes part of our daily diet. Spirulina is one of the oldest foods of the world, and also it is considered as the food for future. It has been approved by NASA. It is an excellent food, lacking toxicity and having corrective properties against viral attacks, anemia, tumor growth and malnutrition.

This project is an algae hydroponic farm which is a homeware device, with an automated ecosystem, for individual or family use at home, so that we can produce food much closer to where it’s consumed. Targeting vegans who want plant based food, also for people who want to switch from pharmaceutical dietary supplements to natural how grown alternatives.

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Significant data - partial

The supply chain is getting worse due to growing population and damaged resources. The research is mainly focus on the facts that human being is facing and Spirulina, what benefits it can offer as a future food.

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Ideation

An algae farm has 3 main functional sections, growing, draining and collecting section for cultivation, harvest and consumption. Concerning of other details like how to prevent algae from external elements and how to achieve the automated eco-system, and bringing accessibility to users, in the context so as to bridge the gap between the urban and yore natural.

Experiment

Control variable method is the way to test growing Spirulina, the practical speed and requirements in normal living conditions, and to find out what needs to be designed to the product to keep it growing steadily.

The experimenting process is based on the instructions by Marcus Nyberg, the CEO & Founder of HealthAlgae.