“AFYAKO” A Beta company created and designed by Antoine Young for a project final within the DS4A Correlation One Fellowship.
Business Problem
100 teams were challenged to find a way to use Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning to benefit the community. Our team focused on the food problem in America and the lack of healthy food choices in inner cities/ urban areas. Collecting data that included excessive fast food restaurants within certain areas vs. organic health food made it clear that people make bad decisions because of not having access to healthier options. “AFYAKO” was our resolution.
Business Solution
Build agriculture in an urban setting. Therefore, an infrastructure that includes vertical farming facilities.
Innovate a brand using a website and apps for consumers or businesses.
Generate a profitable margin while the service is benefiting urban residences.
Afya means health in Swahili and Oko means farm in Yoruba. Afyako provides necessary infrastructure to build and maintain vertical farming solutions.
Process: Research & Design
Interview: Erin Kirkland
Ever since she was a small child, I have loved color, light, and design. As an adult, she's also interested in how the use of color and light at various scales can create spaces for community and learning. In the spring of 2020, she completed my M.Arch Thesis at Carleton University, "From Powering a City to Fueling its Citizens, Vertical Urban Farming in A New Light," about the adaptive reuse of an old power plant in Edmonton, Alberta. The project leverages aquaponic and hydroponic systems in new ways to support and encourage community and food literacy. She's currently an Intern Architect with the OAA and working with CS&P Architects on community and education-focused spaces.
Research communities located in the southern US with agricultural programs against urban communities.
The data sets include:
We show fast-food restaurants per square mile in urban settings to compare similar environments.
What types of urban agriculture programs exist in the southern region of The United States?
Show the state of diet-related diseases in metropolitan areas.
Benchmark
Methodology Options
Minimalism
Workflow Chart for both branding and creative direction
Logo Design
Brainstorming meetings / Reverse Engineering
Prototype
Three types of urban agriculture programs innovate for feasibility. Understanding the process and practicality of each program type lends to the understanding of the success or failure in improving the health of people in the programs' community. Moreover, the more feasible visual brand, to better urban planners and non-profit organizations can plan and endorse future goals.
Creative Direction will be one model used throughout. As we are classifying the following terms and have them standardized throughout our project:
Competitors/Comparison
Color Theory
Brand Methodology
Psychology
A/B Testing
Brand
The final front-end deliverables.
Afyako is A service provider for vertical farm buildings in metropolitan areas. A subsidiary of a multinational supermarket chain or bulk food distributor that provides subscription-based communications, medical records, pharmaceuticals & health insurance, nutritional advisory and food delivery systems throughout the United States.
Build
Display the progression of the team in their goals.
Version 1: Build a website (interactive maps and data visualization) to show a correlation between farming and nonfarming communities related to health. Containing 3-5 static plots and two interactive plots
Version 2: Build a Prediction Model to illustrate effects for policymakers that adjust to the current and evolving changes that cities can adopt one or more urban farming initiatives.
Version 3: Recommendation App for both consumers and businesses that showcases various local options to help get the healthiest choices to combat food-related illnesses. For the consumer, it will be prescribed different menu alternatives. While for businesses, if they are interested in current or new urban farming initiatives, the app will recommend areas. This app can range from spaces that fit the requirement to hold such(for example, Vertical farming in parking lots or unused land).
Neural Network*
A grand idea would be to have a recommendation app that tries to aid in the selection of food in the area that decreases the rate of food-related medication
Launch
Marketing & Visualizations
A key to understanding an agriculture program that reduces the need for prescribed medications is a visualization that compares prescription frequencies.
Social media trends analysis of food and farming
Color Intensity to see the difference in tendencies
Graphs and maps to show an association of usage of farming and nonfarming communities
Line charts to show overall tendencies.
Social Media Metrics
Cluster Analysis of food and farming trends across social media
Check Popularity across metropolitans that classify in the above classification
Results
