The Community College of Philadelphia Architecture Program and the
Utopian Design Collective are proud to present a Lecture by Dr.
Dickson Despommier of the Vertical Farm Project. As an agricultural
and environmental crisis looms, Dr. Despommier, a Columbia university
luminary, has dared to dream. His vision of an urban agriculture
presents an elegant solution to feeding the world, and confronts the
challenge of creating sustainable urban space. The multi-disciplinary
approach of his project combines environmental science, emergent
materials technology and architecture to create the possibility of a
radically green city. Join us as we learn more about the realities of
Vertical Farms.


March 17th 2008 6:30PM

Community College of Philadelphia

Bonnell Building Auditorium BG-10

16th and Spring Garden

Entrance on 16th or 17th

Lecture Hall on First Floor Large Auditorium.


The Vertical Farm project has been featured on CNN, Wired Science, the
BBC and Popular Science. To Learn more about The Vertical Farm Project
you can go to www.VerticalFarm.com. This is a Free event.

The Utopian Design Collective is an amorphous grouping of dreamers,
technophiles, and eco-geeks whose mission it is to spread the word
about the liberatory possibilities of design and technology. More
information is available at http://www.utopiandeco.com