︎︎︎ Group 1: Ground Up
︎︎︎ Group 2: Bite-Powered South Park
︎︎︎ Group 3: Charge South Park
︎︎︎ Group 4: Food Co.

For the final project, students applied their initial research explorations to the South Park community’s vision for an anaerobic biodigester in their community to be a catalyst for developing a circular neighborhood. The inspiration for the project is Vashon Bioenergy Farm and its biodigester which has prompted a series of initiatives on Vashon Island, Washington as part of their efforts to achieve Zero Waste. How this example translates to a higher risk community in an urban context as a strategy to combat gentrification and displacement in their neighborhood, is a key question students explored in their groups. Within this context, Project 3 involved the visioning of South Park as a circular neighborhood through community-led and owned infrastructures with the following objectives:

• To design the site of the South Park Community Biodigester. This is to be understood as a catalyst that initiates a series of community-led projects that work towards a circular neighborhood.
• To envision South Park as a circular neighborhood by testing how the pilot project is scaled up.