ShareCity

Inspiration

Civic empowerment, livable cities An average of 15% of land in the city is vacant. https://www.brookings.edu/research/vacant-land-in-cities-an-urban-resource/ Our food is being sourced from further and further away, while there remains an abundance of unutilised land in the city which can grow local produce. We have opportunity for our street verges, parks and private land to provide short or long term food production and reduce our collective footprint. This is a growing opportunity as new technologies such as automated vehicles will free up more land for local food production. Our cities of growing density and apartment living means that less people have access to garden soil and are looking to reconnect with their food sources and community.

What it does

ShareCity will provide the missing link between unused land, willing labour, excess produce and the community. Anyone can join and share the excess produce from their gardens with anyone in their community. People, businesses and Councils can identify land and attract volunteers to co-create edible gardens. The volunteers of a private garden will have first pick of the excess produce. Produce on public land such as verges and parks will remain shared among the community. The introduction of gardens will:

•      connect people and community
  

•      green the city
  

•      improve liability
  

•      strengthen communities
  

•      reduce the urban heat island effect
  

•      reduce carbon footprint
  

•      filter water runoff and
  

•      improve our City’s ecosystem and biodiversity.
  

A platform that provides a cloud based database connect land/unused space where public/private individuals that put up for green development, individual with gardening skills and interest but doesn't have space Provide a reputation systems and that rates individuals that volunteers and provide land space. Bring communities that are passionate about whole foods together.

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

Differentiating ourselves from existing localised community gardens platform Trying to narrow down from multiple ideas a broad concept

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Connecting people with soil and reducing transportation waste and green house gases if successful

What we learned

You need to think fast and work closely as a team in a hackathon

What's next for ShareCity

Vacant housing rates are rising in our major cities. Across Australia on census night, 11.2 per cent of housing was recorded as unoccupied — a total of 1,089,165 dwellings. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-17/vacancy-tax-wont-solve-australias-empty-housing-problem/8709184