FARMIFICATION: Using farming to keep the factory community together
when orders decrease.
Farmification is an experiment, or a story on the remaking of china in the post tech bubble era. A story/investigation/research conducted by a creative woman named Lisa Ma. This is also a story of a women who had set herself up to bringing forth a solution to one of the most challenging and yet untackled human catastrophes facing China. It is about building stronger communities. Between the bells of Wall Street and the lost hopes of Chinese farmers there are yet many more stories to be told, many more linkages to uncover. Far from East-West ideological battles, in China like anywhere else, it matters to have stable communities. It is not a secret that in the western world, China has become synonymous of punchbag for elected officials and wannabe elected officials.
Some questions...
what would have happen to Europe, America, if there was no China? the question is valid the other way around. what would have happen to all the American families that are unable to make ends meet because of lower wages. I mean would they have been able to feed their themselves if there was not Walmart?
What is FARMIFICATION?
As the tech world evolves, as new technologies replace old ones, it
leaves behind lethal environmental decay as much as an uprooted and lost workforce.
If nothing is done, in the coming days more 230 million farmers trained to perform basic factory
tasks across China will become destitute. The ramifications are immense.
Who cares if Chinese workers are victim of their own success?
These are migrant workers who no longer fit in the rural life style
they were born into, nor do they belong in the tech world that is already
changing as they set foot in the production chain. The stake is huge for the
most populated country in the world. When the world factory is in trouble, it
should matter to the world not because the price of goods will increase in the
US, not because Apple’s production chain will be affected but simply because we are human being.
Jisa Ma is a self describe creative "creative sprawling thinker" known for a technique called “Brain-dumping” consisting of overloading the listener with a lot of information from the speaker's mind in order to create random connection.
Please take a minute to watch the video above.
