Iterative Design of Aquaponics at the American Farm School

93 Pages·2016·14.19 MB·English

Iterative Design of Aquaponics
at the American Farm School
Huilin Yang, Mariana Harley, Nicholas Venditto, Jon Van Blarcum
Authorship
Introduction: *Objective 2: Written by Jon
*Written by Huilin, Mariana, Nicholas, Jon *Objective 3: Written by Nicholas
Background : Design:
*Food insecurity: Written by Huilin, edited by Nicholas, *Educational model: Written by Huilin edited by Nicho-
Mariana and Jon las, Mariana and Jon
*Aquaponics: Written by Nicholas, edited by Mariana *Research Model: Written by Nicholas edited Mariana
and Jon and Jon
*Education: Witten by Mariana, edited by Huilin, Nich- *Iterative design process: Written by Jon edited by
olas and Jon
Nicholas, Mariana and Huilin
*American Farm School initiative: Written Jon edited,
*Future Implementation: Witten by Mariana edited by
by Nicholas, Mariana, Huilin
Nicholas, Jon and Huilin
Methodology:
Design document :
Edit by all
Formatting made by Huilin and Jon edited by Mariana
*Objective 1: Witten by Mariana and Huilin and Nicholas
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Acknowledgements

For their tireless efforts helping to make this project a success we would like to thank

Nicola Bulled, WPI Project Advisor
Robert Hersh, WPI Project Advisor
Antonis Petras, Project Sponsor
Nikolas Nikolaidis, Project Sponsor
Georgia Theodoridou, Project Sponsor

And the entire AFS community for welcoming us to your school. It has been a pleasure meeting and
working with all of you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Introduction 1
2
Background 6
Food Insecurity in Greece 7
Aquaponics 12
Aquaponics in Education 19
3
Mission 25
4
Approach 27
Social investigation 29
Design 35
Vetting and redesign 36
5
Iterative Design Process 37
Educational model 46
Research model 55
System maintenance 67
6
Future
Implementation 69
Work Cited 73
Appendix 77
This report represents the work of WPI undergraduate students sub- Design document :

mitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree require-
Formatting made by Huilin and Jon edited by Mariana and Nicholas
ment. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without
editorial or peer review. For more information about the projects
program at WPI, please see
http://www.wpi.edu/project-learning.html!
Introduction:
*Written by Huilin, Mariana, Nicholas, Jon
Background :
*Food insecurity: Written by Huilin, edited by Nicholas, Mariana
and Jon
*Aquaponics: Written by Nicholas, edited by Mariana and Jon
*Education: Witten by Mariana, edited by Huilin, Nicholas and Jon
*American Farm School initiative: Written Jon edited, by Nicholas,
Mariana, Huilin
Methodology:
Edit by all
*Objective 1: Witten by Mariana and Huilin
*Objective 2: Written by Jon
*Objective 3: Written by Nicholas
Design:
*Educational model: Written by Huilin edited by Nicholas, Mariana
and Jon
*Research Model: Written by Nicholas edited Mariana and Jon
*Iterative design process: Written by Jon edited by
Nicholas, Mariana and Huilin
*Future Implementation: Witten by Mariana edited by Nicholas, Jon
and Huilin
Abstract
A
quaponics is an innovative, and widely investigated, urban agriculture
technology that employs a symbiotic relationship between fish and plants to in-
crease food production. The American Farm School, located in Thessaloniki
Greece, is interested in investigating the potential of aquaponics. This project
aimed to investigate the possibilities of integrating aquaponics within the school’s
educational and research curricula. Utilizing a human centered design type ap-
proach, the interests of different stakeholders were examined to guide design cri-
teria for aquaponics systems that met the needs of the American Farm School and
Perrotis College.
Introduction
www.newschool.edu
foodinsecurity.org