Refarm the City are open tools of software and hardware for “urban farmers”. These tools are used to promote and amplify the dialogue between urban humans, nature, applied sciences and local resources. Started 2008 in hangar.org (Barcelona), open tools have been spread around the planet. Cities like, São Paulo, New York, Paris, Barcelona or Buenos Aires were the stages of our research and applied technologies.

Re:farm the City - Vienna:
We will be building a mobile-bar-re:farm equipped with a cocktail-social-network smartphone app. This farm will be the stage for workshops during the day with non-alcoholic drinks for kids and adults. During the night the farm will travel in the festival area and serve mojitos, caipirinhas or mint tea. This farm will also spread a new tool for smartphones that combines the ingredients of the cocktails and what the users have available to prepare them. For example: Andreas goes to the fridge and only sees ice. He notes “I've got everything!”. With the app he selects that he has ice and instantly he receives the locations of people on a map who have glasses, mint and ron - and if they are willing to meet and have a drink together in the next 30 minutes and at a distance of 1km around him. Besides urban cocktails, the app can arrange (for example) for ingredients of a soup, since all the settings of the mobile application can be customised.

Planning:
Hernani Dias (Barcelona) will work in the first week of September with a small team of local programers and define the functionalities of the smartphone application.
Andreas (Paris) will build the mobile farm from 16th until 2nd of august and work with a a small team of local collaborators. During the festival, Andreas, Hernani and the team of collaborators will organise/offer afternoon workshops of tools for urban farmers and serve at the re:farm-bar at night.