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17-25 October 2026

The Data Garden

The world's first plant based data centre

Gepresenteerd door Grow Your Own Cloud

Dit project is nu gearchiveerd en was onderdeel van DDW20

The Data Garden
The Data Garden
Grow Your Own Cloud
The Data Garden is carbon negative data infrastructure to store and retrieve digital data from the DNA of plants. In contrast to the carbon emitting digital data cloud, The Data Garden works with data nature’s way, through organisms that create their own energy and absorb CO2.
Working with nature to alleviate the threat of ‘data warming‘, the Data Garden invites visitors to experience a new materiality around data, and explore a world in which data storage is truly green, and exists as an accessible public resource that is shar
The Data Garden
The Data Garden
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The Data Garden - reading the data
The Data Garden - reading the data
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The Data Garden - caring for data hosts
The Data Garden - caring for data hosts
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The Data Garden - exhibition posters
The Data Garden - exhibition posters

over Grow Your Own Cloud

Data Garden is created by Grow Your Own Cloud Cyrus Clarke (UK), Monika Seyfried (PL) and Jeff Nivala (US) Architects: ab(Normal) Graphic Design: Kuba Bogacki, Krzysztof Seyfried, Olek Znosko Ethics Advisor: Annelie Berner Fabrication Team: Mike Hart, Rachael Starbuck, Ted Carey The project was supported by Unlisted Projects (US), The Museum of Human Achievement (US), Statens Kunstfond, Roskilde Festival (DK), Catch (DK) and the Singer foundation.