According to the UN, the world needs to produce 70% more food in the next forty years to sustain each human been on the planet. Yet, the world keeps getting overpopulated, and the resources more limited. The planet’s situation is now unsustainable, and people keep ignoring the warning signs. For this reason, Dunne and Raby created a series of projects “Foragers,” which explored this situation. The Foragers are groups of people who “take their fate into their own hands” (A. D. Raby 2013). By using synthetic biology and mechanical devices, they created their own devices which acted as external digestive systems to maximize their nutritional value of the urban environment that could make up for any diet shortcoming. It was very important for Dunne
