Farmification
Creating a global dialogue about the impact of technology demands on world food economy
Initiator(s)
Lisa Ma
Description
Farmification is a part-time farming scheme to help migrant workers gain control over their futures in relation to their past values. Before, these workers were farmers, producing food for themselves and for others, but now having migrated into factories these producers became consumers. Who’s making all the food now? Over years, Farmification as a quiet meme migrated in making statements indirectly, without a voice of conflict from the doer. Since 2012 onwards, the largest iron factory, losing demand as a result of a burst property bubble, took Farmification into practice by invested billions of dollars into pig farming, starting a series of weekly newspaper comic strips and uprooting the national idealism of progress and profession.
Goals
Create a global dialogue about how technological demands impact world food economy. Initiate large-scale transitions between industries; a form of passive activism that is productive.
Beneficial outcomes
Allow communities of factory workers to retain their community despite technology renewal.
Location
China
Users
Factory community, People that eat, People that use technology
Maintained by
Factory workers-owners community
Duration
2011 - onwards
Category
Scientific
Pedagogical
Politics
Urban Development
Economy
Environment
Social
