The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences.
read moreKnowledge, solutions and innovations are available for everyone – challenge your competition, improve efficiency and commercialise future solutions at our world class horticulture technology events. GreenTech is the global meeting place for all professionals involved in horticulture technology. GreenTech focuses on the early stages of the horticulture chain and production issues relevant to growers. GreenTech offers two yearly exhibitions.
read moreWe define Agritecture as the art, science, and business of integrating agriculture into the built environment. We’re a global team of interdisciplinary consultants that rely on an ever-expanding dataset and a proven methodology, having completed more than 150 projects to date. Henry is a sustainability strategist focused on urban agriculture, water issues, and emerging technologies.
read moreThe upcoming weeks and months, supported by recommendations from scientists to narrow down the effects from the new COVID-19 virus, should be used to understand how much potential there is to really become part of a critical mass which wants to contribute to make the city of the future a more resilient, a more culture ‑based and — most of all — a more life-affirming environment.
read moreFood production in greenhouses has a long tradition. New technologies give the opportunity to develop this kind building type. The development of alternative cultivation methods, compareable to the invention of the elevator for skyscrapers, lead to a new building typology – the vertical farm.
read moreDesigning and developing the city of the future needs a multidisciplinary collaboration. By now this challenge no longer can be applied only to architects or urban planners. The growing world population implies to rethink cities from scratch.
read moreWe understand the vertical farm as a structural element of the city. This new building typology carries the potential to rearrange linear material- and energy flows into circulatory ones. This intrinsically leads to an increase of the resilience of urban centres.
read moreOur forth demonstrator can be seen and touched until the end of august 2022 at the Technical Museum Vienna.
read moreVertical farming is currently being intensively researched as a possible future form of food cultivation for the growing world population, and is being tested and implemented in sustainable, economically functioning production systems.
read moreThe Firewall is a vertical farm that has developed from the search for unused properties in the city. The design concept is based on the basic premise of using inner city densification for the production of food.
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