Tiller Healer to REWiRE with Regenerative EcoWellness Incubator for Rejuvenation & Energy.
Project Implementation
The REWiRE Village project focuses on 6 key areas of future design action:
1. Energy-positive, component homes from the built- environment research
Partnering with regional developers, construction and manufacturing companies, component dwelling designs will be further prototyped, utilizing in-country sustainable materials wherever possible.
2. Readily available and regionally appropriate renewable energy sources
Solar, wind, bio-fuel and waste-to-resource renewable energy sources will be implemented based on a combined protocol of regional context, readily available technologies with open APIs and cost-per-yield efficiencies. These will be incorporated with micro grid and grid-tie systems for load balancing and distribution of power.
3. High-yield organic food production via aquaponic systems
Soil-free aquaponic systems for high-yield organic food production encompass the use of fish tanks and adjacent grow beds to facilitate a closed-loop production cycle that has been shown to increase the yield of fruits and vegetables by up to 1/3 (Ehrlich, 2014) while preserving up to 90% of the water. The system produces both fish and vegetable/fruit protein for harvesting.
4. Water management and waste-to-resource system development
Water management and waste water to resource systems are integrated ‘living machine’ mechanisms intended to recycle, reuse and channel water and waste into energy resources at every level of village design implementation.
5. Incorporating Local UniversitiesCurriculum
In addition to the design research conducted at the business campuses, other partner universities will be engaged on a per-project basis to leverage cultural and climatic specificities upon which village designs shall benefit. The scope of curriculum for village residents will be based on community participation and interests in developing real-world products and services.
6. Socio-economic community enterprises fostered through incubation
It is predicted that nearly 47% of most employment will not exist within the next 20 years due to Artificial Intelligence and automation. The intent of this particular research focus is to rapidly deploy ideas that could become economic drivers, yielding revenue for participants and opportunities to employ other villagers in these incubated start-up businesses.
7. MEMS inputs for real-time data gathering to the cloud
Each village will be embedded with micro sensors at the substrate level of building components, fish tanks, plant beds, and renewable energy APIs, which will broadcast real-time data feeds to a cloud database infrastructure. Cognitive computing algorithms will be applied that could either autonomously actuate system responses across platforms in each village and home, and/or notify human intervention.
8. Algorithms for semi-autonomous actuating of thriving mechanisms
The intent is to further streamline the thriving mechanisms through AI and robotics that will allow residents to grow a variety of diverse protein sources for both sustenance and economic benefit. These designs will allow the use of big data, which will benefit community stakeholders, university research, municipal and national governments – all interested and involved in replicating successes by learning from the variables and outcomes.