Composting Futures

Name: Composting Futures
Start: 2025-09-05T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-05T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Platt Fields Market Garden

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 10:00 am to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Platt Fields Market Garden | Manchester, EN

Join us for Composting Futures, a day of workshops, hands-on experiments and demonstrations to celebrate the installation of Compost Computer at MUD - a compost-powered server and low-carbon website designed in collaboration with University of Arts London Critical Climate Computing Institute and FutureEverything.
As the climate crisis escalates, small-scale, replicable technologies like Compost Computer offer urgent alternatives to the energy intensive infrastructure of corporate tech. Located within the soil at MUD’s outdoor community growing space, Platt Fields Market Garden in Manchester, the Compost Computer is an off-grid server powered by bio-energy from decomposing organic waste. The energy created will power FutureEverything’s newly designed website, created using low-carbon principles and lightweight code.
This special event brings together people from Greater Manchester’s growing community and tech enthusiasts to explore the low-carbon ideas behind the Compost Computer and to see how compost is essential, not just in the project, but to healthy ecosystems.
The morning activities will explore the primary component of the Compost Computer, the compost itself. Get your hands dirty learning how to make your own compost in a workshop led by Greater Manchester social enterprise Sow the City. Then explore techniques and devices to sample and assess soil health in soil fertility activities hosted by the University of Manchester and MUD.
In the afternoon, the University of Arts London Critical Climate Computing team will present live demonstrations showcasing the design and function of the hardware powering the Compost Computer’s fuel cell. This is followed by a software demonstration exploring the low-carbon principles and compost inspired design informing FutureEverything’s new website. To conclude the day, Compost Computer creators Mariana Marangoni and Shinji Toya will host an intimate coding workshop for those keen to enhance low carbon web design knowledge and skills.
We hope that these activities will give you an insight into the possibilities of low-carbon, regenerative technology, the ways in which compost and digital infrastructure can coexist, and how you can replicate the technology to create your own compost power source!
A vegan lunch will be provided to all that attend this event, courtesy of MUD kitchen with support from University of Manchester.
Date: September 5th, 2025
Time: 10am - 5pm (Gates open at 9:30am)
Cost: £6 (Limited free tickets are available to those on modest incomes)
Location: MUD Community Gardens, Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield, Manchester M14 6LT
To find out more and book tickets follow the link here ... https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/composting-futures-tickets-1581805094619?aff=oddtdtcreator