Production & Consumption

“Production & Consumption” addresses the issues of how we produce to support our ever-growing human needs and in turn, how our consumer behavior needs to change. Consumerism today is a multi-faceted social matter in which people consume goods and services beyond their basic needs or means. Our society today displays our endless options of produce with a glorified end result allowing for an increase in our consumption levels. This detracts from the production processes involved, making it easy to compartmentalize or ignore.

As this consumer culture is a means to be dismantled and recast, I am interested in finding a new kind of consumerism focused on our growing populations needs, which is measured through carbon.

As the global waste production rate continues to rise, the need for sustainable and renewable resources for waste management becomes more apparent. The project operates around a closed loop system which incorporates all features of the production and consumption process, producing minimal carbon emissions while recycling all the nutrients and organic matter material back into the soil it grew in.