░░░░░░ Compost Computer:
More-Than-Human Design
Through Critical Climate Computing

This AHRC-funded project will produce a biomatter reactor powered by compost, in collaboration with Greater Manchester-based community growing collectives Sow The City and MUD. The biomatter reactor powers a low-energy webserver, which will host a newly redesigned website for FutureEverything, an arts and culture organisation who have committed to embedding more-than-human logics into their organisation, including through appointing Nature to their board of directors.

The website will be designed to low-compute logics: an emerging practice of reducing the energy consumption of websites by embedding low-carbon thinking into everyday functions and aesthetics of web design.

The outcome will be a compost-powered website, with every decision in its creation and infrastructure reflecting a commitment to reducing the carbon cost of our digital infrastructures, and encouraging new and non-extractive ways of thinking through and designing everyday systems.