Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools

Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by vanderZwan on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:50PM (#13065718)

> IIRC, many of these projects came from actual farmers, not design students.

As a designer, if there is one thing that pisses me off about my own field, it is that design students often are not encouraged enough to co-create with real stake-holders and end up just throwing ungrounded high-concept nonsense out there.

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Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by staticvar on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:11PM (#13066678)

The Greenhorns and National Young Farmers Association helped organize a Farm Hack event at RISD in 2012 where they brought together design students and farmers. Here's a link to the forum where a lot of the work was posted http://farmhack.org/forums/farm-hack-rhode-island-2012-risd

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Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by localtalent on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:57PM (#13072939)

It hurts the field as a whole - when impossible-to-build CG renders and endless piles of pie-in-the-sky Post-Its becomes synonymous with 'design' it makes it that much harder to convince organizations to put resources behind including design in their planning and production.

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