This project is now archived and was part of DDW20
The Data Garden
Grow Your Own Cloud
The Data Garden is carbon negative data infrastructure to store and retrieve digital data from the DNA of plants. In contrast to the carbon emitting digital data cloud, The Data Garden works with data nature’s way, through organisms that create their own energy and absorb CO2.
Working with nature to alleviate the threat of ‘data warming‘, the Data Garden invites visitors to experience a new materiality around data, and explore a world in which data storage is truly green, and exists as an accessible public resource that is shar
The Data Garden
Grow Your Own Cloud
The Data Garden - reading the data
Grow Your Own Cloud
The Data Garden - caring for data hosts
Grow Your Own Cloud
The Data Garden - exhibition posters
About Grow Your Own Cloud
Data Garden is created by Grow Your Own Cloud
Cyrus Clarke (UK), Monika Seyfried (PL) and Jeff
Nivala (US)
Architects:
ab(Normal)
Graphic Design:
Kuba Bogacki, Krzysztof Seyfried, Olek Znosko
Ethics Advisor:
Annelie Berner
Fabrication Team:
Mike Hart, Rachael Starbuck, Ted Carey
The project was supported by Unlisted Projects (US), The
Museum of Human Achievement (US), Statens Kunstfond,
Roskilde Festival (DK), Catch (DK) and the Singer foundation.
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