Little Donkey Farm designed Foodloop, an urban agriculture prototype to create a more sustainable food network for urban citizens. The prototype explored balcony farming through material and technology selections, environmental design, and systems for activities and impact. It aimed to answer how sustainable urban agriculture could be realized through innovative services connecting urban and rural areas during the 2013 Beijing Design Week.

1. Little Donkey Farm
X6 Architecture Co. LTD.
Beijing University of
Technology
Tsinghua University
Beijing Design Week,
Sept 2013
Foodloop –an urban
agriculture prototype
Themes: urban agriculture,
innovative services, urbanrural relationship

2. Aim & Target group
CONTEXT : a sustainable lifestyle
demands a more natural,
dynamic food network for the
urban citizens, while how to
realize it is always a question to
answer.

3. Process
PROJECT: an urban agriculture
prototype aims to a sustainable
food network, trying to answer
the questions of technology,
material, recycling, activities
and impact of the balcony
farming.

4. Result
DESIGN ROLE: material &
technology prototyping,
environment design,
communication, system
organizing