COMPOSTOPIA

The Compostopia Family Composting Experiment is gradually creating participatory scenes for sustainable living within Shenzhen communities. Starting from existing community farming experiences, the project connects rooftop planting, parent-child participation, food waste transformation, and family observation, inviting residents to rethink the relationship between food, soil, and the environment in everyday life.

Partner Community Practice


CM+ Serviced Apartment Shenzhen Taige Rooftop FarmTaige Rooftop Farm, located at 1CM+ Serviced Apartment Shenzhen Taige, No. 1033 Nanhai Road, Shekou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, has hosted rooftop farming activities for families and children. Through hands-on activities such as preparing soil, planting seeds, watering, and harvesting, children and parents learn how food grows in an urban environment.Before launching Compostopia’s family composting program at Jingshan Villas, I visited Taige Rooftop Farm and consulted with its team to learn from their experience engaging families in urban farming. This experience reaffirmed my goal for Compostopia and helped me see firsthand how composting could build on families’ connection with soil and food. While rooftop farming teaches children how food grows, home composting introduces the next step: turning food scraps into something useful for the soil.



Jingshan VillasJingshan Villas, located at No. 1007 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, is the current partner community for the project. I work with local families to introduce household composting and explore how it can become part of their daily routines.Through a partnership with Jingshan Villas, 10 families have participated in the home-composting program. I coordinated family recruitment, guided purchasing the materials, and provided step-by-step instruction to help children and parents learn and practice composting at home. Through this hands-on experience, families gained a better understanding of composting and explored how they could incorporate sustainable habits into their daily routines.



Families Composting








What We Are Building


From Farming to Composting
Starting from rooftop farming experiences, the project introduces family composting and helps residents understand that food does not end with consumption, but can return to the soil cycle through the transformation of kitchen scraps.
 From Activity Experience to Daily Action
Through composting kits, operation guides, and observation records, families can participate over two weeks to one month and visibly observe the transformation process.From Community Cases to a Shenzhen Network
With Taige Rooftop Farm as an existing example and Jingshan Villas as a partner community, Compostopia is gradually establishing its presence in Shenzhen. The next step is to expand the project by inviting more communities, schools, and families to participate.








Looking Ahead: Expanding Across Shenzhen


As Compostopia grows, I hope to bring the project to more communities, families, schools, and public spaces across Shenzhen. By providing easy-to-use composting kits, step-by-step guides, and ongoing support, my goal is to make home composting a simple, accessible, and sustainable practice that more families can adopt.

Join us to co-create the next family composting community. 

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