TF-000NOT PUBLIC
Seasons 000
Phenology, seasonal time, and the problem of keeping a calendar that follows a place rather than a market.
FILE NOT YET PUBLICBIOLOGICAL OPERATING SYSTEM / v3.0
PERMANENTCULTUREPROTOCOL_
Biosphere(x) is an effort and process to relearn, research, and implement techniques of permanent cultures—not inside a sealed bubble, but inside the only biosphere we have.
SCROLL TO INITIALIZE42.2781° N / 74.9160° WEST. 2015 / NYC + DELHI, NY
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Acres in regeneration
Oasis / Delhi, NY
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Active nodes
Habitat, food, media
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Biosphere
Earth. No backup.
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Variables
The x in B(x)
01MISSION
WE ARE NOT BUILDING A BUBBLE.
WE ARE BUILDING A PRACTICE.
Biosphere(x) takes its name from Biosphere 2 and its lesson from its limits: ecology cannot be separated from social systems. We are not trying to prove we can live in a box. We are trying to build a culture that can live here.
LAND / SYSTEMS
Water, soil, food, habitat, energy. We design and maintain working systems that close loops instead of exporting their consequences.
CULTURE / PEOPLE
Skills, mutual aid, media, repair. A permanent culture is a social technology as much as a physical one.
“In a small closed ecological system the equation ‘our biosphere’s health equals our health’ becomes dramatically evident.”Nelson and Alling / Biosphere 2 crew members
02FIELD RECORD
2016—2017 / SELECTED
03PROJECT INDEX
FIVE NODES.
ONE BIOSPHERE.
Each node tests a different scale of the same question: how much life can a place support when its inputs, outputs, and people are accounted for?
HABITAT / FOOD / PRODUCTION / MEDIA / LAND
04MUTUAL AID
SURPLUS → RESOURCE.
INVESTMENT → INFRASTRUCTURE.
OFFERING / 01
- Design / build services 01
- Nursery + cultures 02
- Fresh produce + surplus 03
- Private workshops 04
- Advisory / consultation 05
SEEKING / 02
- Multimedia + documentation 01
- Legal counsel / land structures 02
- Materials + transport 03
- Field labor + build crews 04
- Long-term collaborators 05
Exchange is not a storefront. It is a relationship. We trade skills, materials, time, and surplus—not just money. Tell us what you have and what you need.
OPEN A CHANNEL4 CATEGORIES OFFERED / 3 CATEGORIES SOUGHT
05TECHFLUID / RESEARCH INDEX
A RESEARCH INDEX,
NOT A FEED.
Working files on seasonality, sleep, biomechanics, and frameworks that sit outside the default operating assumptions.
06 MODULES / OPEN + SEALED FILES
TF-001OPEN FILE
Sleep 000
A working map of seasonal time and a reading file on sleep, light, and the body's relationship to the year.
TF-002NOT PUBLIC
Biomechanics 000
Movement, load, and the body as a tool that has to be maintained if it is going to do the work.
FILE NOT YET PUBLICTF-003OPEN FILE
Biomechanics 001
Working notes on movement practice, physical capacity, and the training that supports long field days.
TF-004OPEN FILE
Sleep 001
Instinctive rest postures and the architecture of life—two references that connect sleep to structure and recovery.
TF-005INDEX
Frameworks 000
A reading index of practices and technologies that sit outside the default operating assumptions of the dominant culture.
06FIELD NOTES
TRANSMISSIONS
FROM THE FIRST CYCLES.
Reports from the field, the kitchen, the workshop, and the compost pile. Written when there is something worth passing on.
FN-001 / 2016 RECAP
FN-0012016 Recap
A year of steady learning, mourning, and appreciation for all the systems that keep us here together.
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