Agronautas is a multidisciplinary project that explores and creates processes, designs and initiatives in order to reformulate the relationship between people and natural environment.

+AIMS
+Socializing and spreading sustainable ways of life based on the activity of some professionals and communities by the use of information and media technologies.
+Developing different innovative projects, designs and built architectures that minimize expenses in terms of energy and resources, promote new habits and relationships with nature in everyday life and can be easily reproduced by citizens.

+TOOLS
o[EXPLORATION]
Minimizing human impact on the environment is studied through the perspective of some particular initiatives of some communities and professionals that have already developed sustainable ideas and ways of life. This projects are documented, located and analyzed through an exploration process.

o[AUDIOVISUAL DISCOURSE]
Interviews with different agents are articulated through audiovisual documentaries that make them comprehensible and spreadable for all type of publics. Around 40 communities and professionals have already been interviewed.

o[ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURES]
“Ecological infrastructures” can be defined as objects, buildings or devices that minimize energy and resources consumption. They are made of natural and minimum impact materials and able to generate more sustainable activities and ways of life.
Ecological infrastructures are open-source design, they are developed in a collective way and as do-it-yourself products.
Agrokitchen is an ecological, open-source, outdoors kitchen prototype that is specially designed to be used by groups of people in community gardens.
Other prototypes developed are the “Equipped bike trailers” that incorporate minimum energy infrastructures (solar cooker, water treatment) and make possible some activities that improve the relationship between people and natural environment, as seeds meetings or vegetables interchange.

o[COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS]
Ecological infrastructures are built and designed with the collaboration of communities of future users that serve as experts and develop their skills with the aid of other experienced builders. Therefore, constructions are adapted to special needs.

o[EVALUATION]
Prototypes are tested by the community of users that has been generated during the building process. Some electronic devices are created in order to monitor how infrastructures work, measuring energy and resources consumption and transforming data into graphical information that can be observed on Agronautas website.

o[SHARING INFORMATION]
All the technical information about the prototypes and how they are build is shared on the Agronautas website so that prototypes can be collectively developed. A network of online self-builders will be created.

o[SELF-MANAGING]
Users of ecological infrastructures are helped to improve their devices by the self-builders online community. They can also improve their designs through monitoring data.

[PEZ[estudio] has collaborated of Juan Dopico Massobrio, Raumlabor Berlin, Re:farm the city, Mazetas, Tuni Panea, El Súper, Taer Solar, Arteklab, Manolo Vilchez, Lutxana Ecocommunitary Orchard, Ur-Chi-Tao Communitary Orchard, Barcelona Orchards Network, ZAWP Bilbao and all participants during the workshops. The project has been supported by The Basque Government and EME3]

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