3SDC Events

This is the seventh iteration of our field research outputs of the Compostcubator© research project. Each iteration is different from the others, ranging from pre-cybernetic off-grid systems to closed loop pump operated systems. With every version, our knowledge base increases and optimisation is amplified:

The first outdoor Compostcubator (AKA “The Golem”) was presented as part of the Shuffle Festival, London UK 2017.

In 2018, as part the VESSELS OF CARE AND CONTROL project, in collaboration with Mike Bianco, Compostcubator prototypes were deployed in: 

2018: Commissioned by International Art Space (IAS) as part of their Know Thy Neighbour programme and presented at the Perth City Farm, Western Australia.

2018: An indoor version was presented at the Kenpoku-art festival, Ibaraki Japan.

2019: An outdoor version as part of the Spare Parts Exhibition, Science Gallery London.

In 2019 and 2020 we presented a new and improved indoor version, in collaboration with Devon Ward, at Chronus Art Center (CAC) at Shanghai China, as part of the Growing exhibition. ZHI ART MUSEUM, Chengdu, China.

Alkaline Hydrolysis is promoted as a form of environmental cremation (marketed as Aquamation). Most recently, Desmond Tutu’s body has been disposed of using this technique.

Our innovative Alkaline Hydrolysis Urn™ in 3SDC will transform animal waste and refuse into fertiliser to feed the soilless plants in the hydroponic systems as a demonstration of an efficient waste stream utilisation.

This ground breaking technology is based on the original 1888 Patent registered by Amos Herbert Hobson who, 

“[I]nvented certain new and useful improvements in the treatment of bones and animal waste or refuse generally for the purpose of rendering the same more suited for fertilizing purposes, and for obtaining gelatine, glue, and size…
The invention relates to the treatment of bones and animal waste and refuse generally -such, for example, as: fish or: fish-scrap, (i. e., the heads and tails of fish,) and the horn, hoofs, skins, cartilages, and meat of animals; and the objects of the invention are:

To render such bones, refuse/or waste more suited for fertilizing purposes;

to extract the gelatine, glue, or size from such bones, refuse, or waste ( while leaving a residue possessing valuable fertilizing properties.”

Patent No. 394,982, dated December 25, 1888. Application filed April 5, 1888, serial No, 269,727, (No specimens,)

Crops in a field can be adversely affected by Nature.

3SDC Soilless Farming Techniques (SFTs) are less likely to feel the brunt of unfavourable weather and solar radiation, whilst providing greater certainty of harvest output, climate and time zone equity.

3SDC SFTs allow us to produce crops as fodder for the compost that heats the Compostcubator. In fact, the efficient use of 3SDC SFTs may perhaps play a significant role in providing fresh produce to growing populations in urban settings.

These techniques include growing crops using hydroponics and often incorporate “controlled environment agriculture”, which aims to optimise plant growth by strictly regulating nutrients, lighting and pH.

3SDC Soilless Farming Techniques are perfect for high density living areas with low space and high metabolic rift requirements.

3SDC Control Systems generate vast amounts of data adding value and certainty. The strategic placement of various types of sensors yields indispensable data. Streams of data are displayed onsite in the Control Room and online as an open source resource in support of data equity to assist with the accumulation of much needed information and data points.

The 3SDC Control Room is a sensor hub, providing a range of data points towards a controlled agriculture platform that uses technological systems to control and monitor climate, energy, and plant growth inside of a specialised nature free environment. Climate variables such as light levels, carbon dioxide, air temperature, humidity, potential hydrogen, time zone, electrical conductivity, and root-zone temperature are among the many conditions that can be controlled and monitored to yield the ultimate metabolic rift conditions.