HUNGRY ECOCITIES : Paths to progress Experiments
+ PROJECT
TOMATO BRAIN
Jo Kroese & Axia
SUMMARY
Tomato Brain helps teams think together. Three privacy-preserving agents on Axia’s cloud—Sales Sage, Seed Sommelier, Cultivation Coach—turn serial meeting updates into a Parallelise → Synthesise → Decide workflow. Pre-briefs highlight patterns and tensions, meetings become live interrogations of sales, varieties and cultivation knowledge, and decisions (with rationale) are captured for follow-through. The approach reduces “variety overload” without pooling proprietary data and has been demonstrated with industry, students and public audiences.
“Jo’s experience as an artist was a great fit to our project proposal. It is great to see artists working in the tech and data space, as it is quite a fast-evolving field where creativity and experimentation are essential for progress”
William van der Riet – Axia vegetable seeds
+ ARTIST
Jo Kroese
Netherlands
Jo is an English-Dutch mathematician, artist and
technologist. Their work uses data and technology to
create tools for liberation and real utopias.
+ SME
AXIA SEEDS
Vegetable seeds
Naaldwijk, NETHERLANDS
Axia is an innovative breeding company, specialized in creating vegetable seeds for protected crops. They run a dedicated program for heated greenhouses, with or without artificial light. Their breeding program is characterized by a strong focus at taste and healthy ingredients, with a very high yield.
The HungryEcoCities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101069990.