The World in a Garden is an organization that focuses on educating the community and working working on various urban projects to help teach community members about the importance of nutrition health and how to grow your own food. They have farms located between East and West Boulevard at 57th & 55th Avenue in Vancouver. It spans alongside the railroad tracks. Each farm contains various foods from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to maintain and spread culture diversity.
While they are currently a smaller organization, they eventually hope to work on a global level and create similar projects in various third world countries. Ultimately they wish to create ten similar, large impacting gardens in ten different countries.
The ultimate goal of the living fence project is to develop a design that can be recreated and implemented in other various farms to maximize the usable space. As the project stands now, the goal is to create a fence out of bamboo from which various herbs will grow. Community members can then come and pick the herb to use in their home cooking.
The project is fairly open to change and as a result most of the constraints are mobile.
The non-negotiable constraints are:
-the perimeter length must be 25ft by 55ft
-the fence must be made out of bamboo
-a watering system needs to be in place
-it must be possible for the design to be re-created
The negotiable constraints are:
-spacing between bamboo
-irrigation method
-hole dimensions in bamboo for herbs
-work schedule (to small degree)
-cost
-general design of overall project
The fence needs to be easy to replicate and flexible in implementation. Multiple designs will have to be proposed to fulfill this requirement. We must also consider that the re-creation of this fence will not be done by engineers so the design has to be simple enough for everyone to understand. As a result the fence has to functional and practical without unnecessary clutter.
In order to achieve these goals a large amount of brainstorming and minor testing will be required to ensure success. This could mean the early ordering of bamboo to test a few various model ideas to understand which works best. Ultimately success will be based on the number of diverse and creative concepts that are brought forth to the group.
