f-pod is intended to prepare a fertile ground along the Peel Basin edge for the proposed grafting of new development. By seeding the basin edge with f-pod, a fast growing and temporary urban pioneer species, a proto-community will be established from which a permanent community will grow. f-pod's facilitates interaction between existing and potential residents through the universal activities of growing and eating food. Through the establishment of a market and community dining room the f-pod community also readies the entire city for the creation of a new community through a process of tactile engagement with what was considered derelict land. This pre-seeding of community improves the likelihood of a successful urban redevelopment creating social bonds between the existing community and the one about to arrive.

f-pod is a self contained mobile facilitator of urban agricultural - a pop-up small scale farm ecosystem. Created from re-purposed shipping containers, each f-pod includes: a water collecting and energy producing roof structure, internalized composting, aquaculture tank, poultry pen, mushroom growing vault and 100m2 of soil in raised planting beds. Being of standard shipping container dimensions and weight, the f-pod can be brought to (or removed) from site by any standard tilt bed truck. Additional f-pod community units are stacked to create a market, dining room and community meeting rooms, resulting in social space. These temporary structures intensify the creation of social bonds between existing and future neighbors and the city at large. After the one year community growth season the f-pods are simply packed back on trucks and brought to the next site in need of pre-seeding.

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