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STUDIO \ JAE RHIM LEE

Transdisciplinary Designer, Artist, and Entrepreneur Jae Rhim Lee
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    • INFINITY BURIAL PROJECT / COEIO, INC.
    • MIT FEMA TRAILER PROJECT
    • N=1=NPK=KIMCHI=N
    • ALTERNATIVES FOR URINATION
    • BEDS
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N=1=NPK=KIMCHI=N, 2006
Customized diet, kimchi, and mobile living unit with hydroponic garden, urinal, urine processor, bed, and kitchen.
 
In April 2006 I sent my urine to a floriculture lab to determine the availability of plant nutrients in my urine. I designed and followed a customized vegan diet* designed to transform my urine into a more ideal nutrient solution for plants. I built a customized, mobile urine recycling system which contained a urinal, urine processor, foam bed, kitchen, and hydroponic napa cabbage garden. I urinated, bio-processed (with nitrosomas bacteria) and sterilized my urine, grew napa cabbages hydroponically with the urine, made kimchi from the napa cabbage, and served the kimchi to the public.
 
*For the curious, although my impossibly stringent diet was chock-full of nutrients (due to sacrificing all the good things — taste, texture, and fat), it lacked enough magnesium, calcium, and iron for optimal plant nutrition.
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