The Community College of Philadelphia Architecture Program and the Utopian Design Collective are proud to present a Lecture by Dr. Dickson Despommier of the Vertical Farm Project. As an agricultural and environmental crisis looms, Dr. Despommier, a Columbia university luminary, has dared to dream. His vision of an urban agriculture presents an elegant solution to feeding the world, and confronts the challenge of creating sustainable urban space. The multi-disciplinary approach of his project combines environmental science, emergent materials technology and architecture to create the possibility of a radically green city. Join us as we learn more about the realities of Vertical Farms.
March 17th 2008 6:30PM
Community College of Philadelphia
Bonnell Building Auditorium BG-10
16th and Spring GardenEntrance on 16th or 17th
Lecture Hall on First Floor Large Auditorium.
The Vertical Farm project has been featured on CNN, Wired Science, the BBC and Popular Science. To Learn more about The Vertical Farm Project you can go to
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