Productive Lawns
Productive Lawns examines the conventional flow of goods associated with production, processing and storage of food products in the American suburban market.
In a critique of the extreme cost of resources consumed in conventional lawn maintenance, in conjunction with the average cost of commuting to a supermarket to buy all groceries, Productive Lawns offers a series of Guidelines to shift some food production, processing and storage to the realm of the suburban plot.
This reprogramming not only provides the community with available whole foods, but also infuses the domestic sphere with productive potential and confuses conventional understanding of suburban community.
A multiplicity of potential land transformations are optimized to the plot’s solar orientation. Participants in the community can opt into varying degrees of food production in their private property. As a result, community and small scale economies are free to develop in the context of adjacent lawn spaces, and hopefully encourage a blurring of the rigid property owenership typified by the suburban plot.
Productive Lawns thereby fundamentally reconceptualizes the American right to individual property and food security.
Guidebook to Suburban Lawn Developments
Existing suburban plot plan
Possible manipulation of the suburban block through Productive Lawn Guidelines