Future of Shared Urban Farming

w. 47

What we have done. We had our mid crit presentation a week ago and we were very happy with  the comments and suggestions we received from the panel as well as from other students. We wrote all the comments down and had a new group meeting on monday to discuss how we should proceed the research. We decided we were going to further develop a prototype for an application to show in the final presentation. We also started to brainstorming what exactly we want our final presentation to be like as well as how the lay out for the text for the book should look like. During the meeting on monday we made an outline for the text and divided the parts up so everybody could be working on separate parts at home since we have a lot to do in our other classes right now. We all agreed on having a finished rough draft of the text on monday 24th of November so that we have enough time to edit the text before it is due. This week we also sent our last questions to people and organisations of interest to finalize our idea and to receive answers to any confusions we had about urban farming. Two members also took a trip to Bredäng to meet Alice Bulukin who works with urban farming and takes care of an urban farm in Bredäng. We visited the little farm but unfortunately most of the plants were dead already but there were at least some potatoes left in the soil. She was able to answer many of our questions and sounded excited about our project idea. 

What we will do.  Our next step is to finalize the text for the book and on monday we have scheduled a new meeting to start working on the final presentation.

Challenges encountered. We haven’t encountered any major challenges this week. The only small challenge was to find time where everybody in the group could meet since we all have a lot going on in other courses. However, we managed to meet all together and finish what we needed to get done.

Changes in the project. We made some small changes to our project after the mid crit last week but nothing major. We just added some more parts to it and made sure that nothing is unclear anymore.

Other. We feel like we are on track and look forward presenting our idea at the final presentation in december.