Benni’s Forest: A serious game on the challenges of reforestation

Many people think of reforestation projects as one-dimensional, simply consisting of planting trees. In reality, a reforestation project takes into account a wide variety of factors, of which the three most important are improving soil quality, reducing fire hazard, and ensuring the prosperity of the community. We posit that a simplistic view on...

Water stress detection using radar

Vegetation is a crucial part of the water and carbon cycle. Through photosynthesis carbon is assimilated for biomass production, and oxygen is released into the atmosphere. During this process, water is transpired through the stomata, and is redistributed in the plant. Transpired water is refilled by uptake of water from the root zone in the...

Regreening Nature: Turning negative externalities into oportunities

As a general rule, environmental design and engineering, instead of taking part from an early design stage, usually remains as a question of post-design optimization. A way to solve such problem may be found in looking at nature and working architecture along with ecology, where iteratively the design process involves varied relations and mutual...