The Lions Gate is a new urban permaculture project initiated and supported by the School of Computing and the Estates Department of Edinburgh Napier University at Merchiston Campus. The project has been set up to explore how permaculture and digital interaction, can be blended in ways that:

 

 

Still in it's early stages The Lions Gate is developing the following:

 

• a rooftop kitchen allotment

• a digital bothy

• an orchard

• a food forest

• ponds

• sensory garden

• social spaces

• performance spaces

• off-grid digital systems

• renewables systems

• circular economies

• augmented reality interpretations of permaculture

• accessible pathways

• and much more

 

We've developed a volunteer policy and are ready to welcome participants.

 

We're also keen to seek research projects from diverse fields and make connections with projects from around the world.

 

At present we work on Mondays and Thursdays but as the days lengthen other times to get involved will be offered.