Space10 and IKEA create pop-up Hydroponic farm during London Design Festival
newsdepo.com
Space10 and IKEA teamed up during the recent London Design Festival to prototype Lokal, a salad bar that uses a hydroponic farming system. Lokal, an external future-living lab, popped up in Shoreditch during the London Design Festival 2017. The salad bar was
Space10 and IKEA create pop-up Hydroponic farm during London Design Festival
Space10 and IKEA teamed up during the recent London Design Festival to prototype Lokal, a salad bar that uses a hydroponic farming system. Lokal, an external future-living lab, popped up in Shoreditch during the London Design Festival 2017. The salad bar was used to test an innovative food concept where microgreens are grown indoors, both locally and vertically. The purpose of the prototype was to test how the people felt about food that was grown hydroponically and whether they liked the taste of the resultant microgreens.During the festival, more than 2,000 complimentary salads were served to the visitors over the course of six days. Visitors could choose from three dishes, each of which came with a salad dressing made with spirulina microalgae.Hydroponic farming allows microgreens to grow without soil, using nutrient-enriched water, LED lights, and computerized automation. In this manner, plants are ensured the environmental conditions needed for optimal growth. Hydroponics allows microgreens to grow up to three times faster than in fields, using 90 percent less water. This method has proved to be less wasteful and can be done locally, making it sustainable when coupled with the use of renewable energy sources, noted Domus. Read more
