MArch student Jakub Dzamba was invited to present a research
paper at the Knowledge Globalization Institute's annual conference, hosted by
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 8-10th, 2010. The keynote speaker
was Nobel Laureate Dr. Mohammed Yunus.

For more information about the conference visit: http://www.kglobal.org/

Jakob was also invited by a local practising architect to present at
ArchSociety, a local architecture forum. Read from his presentation here:

http://www.archsociety.com/e107_plugins/calendar_menu/event.php?1273516200.event.26

ABSTRACT:
It is anticipated that in 2050 the world’s population will
exceed 9 billion people. The expansion of the world’s foodprint that is expected
to accompany this population increase may exceed the tolerances of our planet’s
ecosystems, activating unknown tipping points, and result in extreme food
shortages. This project introduces an idea named Third Millennium Farming (3MF)
that is about harnessing the abilities of micro-organisms (algae and
phytoplankton) and micro-livestock (insects) to rapidly reproduce, for the
purpose of food production. 3MF operations would feed off the organic and
semi-organic wastes produced in every city; producing all the food we need,
while making our cities more sustainable, and reducing our foodprint to only a
fraction of the land we use today. Farmers might return to the city transformed
– a mix between engineer, biologist, botanist and scientist - managing high-tech
farms integrated into our buildings’ systems and city infrastructure. Lastly,
this idea hinges on the assumption that, using micro-livestock, future chefs and
culinary experts will demonstrate unlimited creativity and innovation in
whipping out things from oozes to mousses, right down to a protein cookie which
will feed a hungry child for a day.