Arborea
INTERACTION DESIGN
PRODUCT DESIGN
ENGINEERING

REDESIGNING AGRICULTURE: MAKING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE SCALABLE

Arborea is a startup working to accelerate the global transition to sustainable food by producing healthy food ingredients through advanced carbon-positive organic cultivation systems.


[Product Designer, Arborea. Feb - May 2019 FTC]

My time at Arborea was spent designing and prototyping the pilot for a modular microalgae growing unit for a sustainable agriculture technologies startup.






As product designer I tested and optimised the prototype to increase algal yield, and reduced manufacturing costs. The prototype was to inform the design of a 30-acre farm. Simple assembly, operation, and maintenance was imperative to ensure the scalability of the technology.

I designed and manufactured a 20 metre pilot with a team of three, as a proof of concept of Arborea’s technology. The design is in the latter stages of testing in Imperial College’s Innovation Hub.



articles:

http://arborea.io/

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191026/worlds-first-biosolar-leaf-tackle-pollution/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/28/biosolar-leaf-project-targets-air-pollution-on-london-campus

https://futurism.com/the-byte/biosolar-leaf-pull-pollution-london-air