扎格西溫室計劃，囊謙 Tashi Gatsen Greenhouse Project, Nangqen
2018 三月、八月、十一月 | 扎西格森學校主持人：蒼薩貢葛 ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ། | 扎西格森校長：達哇堪布 ཟླ་བ་མཁན་པོ། | 溫室建造計劃主持人：蒼薩貢葛 ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ།，Wiriya Rattanasuwan | 基地地主：蒼薩美多 ཚང་སར་མེ་ཏོག | 當地協調者：蒼薩毛吉 ཚང་སར་མོ་སྐྱིད།
溫室之心計劃紮根於藝術家施惟捷和來自泰國的環境工程師薇麗雅（Wiriya Rattanasuwan）的國際義工行動，2018 年 11 ⽉他們與 扎格森慈善學校和囊謙縣的當地居民花了三週建立了第一個溫室建築原型，期待為被學校庇護的孤兒們提供全年食物。在溫度降⾄ -30°C 的冬季中要餵養所有學⽣是極度困難的。由藝術家和研究人員構思和建造的溫室必須要抵禦寒冷的天氣，並且全年都能保持⾼效。因此，該計劃的首要挑戰之一是建立一個可運作的溫室模型，以生產適量的食物和良好的營養品質。從這個根源，我們希望發展不同的分支：科學研究實驗室和藝術計劃，並且期待透過這些分支回頭來支援溫室的建造計劃。由於各種科技在計劃中的參與，社區溫室因此成為⼀個跨域的實驗場所。其中一個主要實驗是將物聯網傳感器集成到溫室結構中，因此我們希望能夠收集特定於高海拔環境的天氣和環境數據，這些數據將在公共互聯網平台上傳播，創建第一個鏈接不同領域的研究人員之間的開放社群網絡。所有這些活動相互聯繫，並在溫室計劃中融合，儘管我們的第二個挑戰是引導這些跨域合作能合諧交融，所有人都能在其中有空間呼吸和茁壯成長。
從透過關注有限且精確的文本開始（扎格森學校），使溫室計劃通過科學家的網絡和藝術家以及文化組織的合作網絡進行全球範圍內的擴展，我們希望通過這些合作增加國際能見度。能見度確實是我們的最後一項挑戰。囊謙是西藏的一個偏遠地區，由於從溫室發展出來的藝術和科學網絡，這個地區將在世界上越來越受到關注。透過典型藝術市場或科學資助系統以外的溝通渠道，這種擴展將得以實現，這要歸功於一個將本地居民的教育和利益放在首位，並向研究和創作提供可訪問信息共享的計劃，這些信息可供希望使用溫室數據的人使用，不僅限於學術機構。我們正在探索基於分享、空間和資源的慈善經濟的可能性，讓各種生命形式都能夠生存和茁壯成長。
2018 三月、八月、十一月 | 扎西格森學校主持人：蒼薩貢葛 ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ། | 扎西格森校長：達哇堪布 ཟླ་བ་མཁན་པོ། | 溫室建造計劃主持人：蒼薩貢葛 ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ།，Wiriya Rattanasuwan | 基地地主：蒼薩美多 ཚང་སར་མེ་ཏོག | 當地協調者：蒼薩毛吉 ཚང་སར་མོ་སྐྱིད།
溫室之心計劃紮根於藝術家施惟捷和來自泰國的環境工程師薇麗雅（Wiriya Rattanasuwan）的國際義工行動，2018 年 11 ⽉他們與 扎格森慈善學校和囊謙縣的當地居民花了三週建立了第一個溫室建築原型，期待為被學校庇護的孤兒們提供全年食物。在溫度降⾄ -30°C 的冬季中要餵養所有學⽣是極度困難的。由藝術家和研究人員構思和建造的溫室必須要抵禦寒冷的天氣，並且全年都能保持⾼效。因此，該計劃的首要挑戰之一是建立一個可運作的溫室模型，以生產適量的食物和良好的營養品質。從這個根源，我們希望發展不同的分支：科學研究實驗室和藝術計劃，並且期待透過這些分支回頭來支援溫室的建造計劃。由於各種科技在計劃中的參與，社區溫室因此成為⼀個跨域的實驗場所。其中一個主要實驗是將物聯網傳感器集成到溫室結構中，因此我們希望能夠收集特定於高海拔環境的天氣和環境數據，這些數據將在公共互聯網平台上傳播，創建第一個鏈接不同領域的研究人員之間的開放社群網絡。所有這些活動相互聯繫，並在溫室計劃中融合，儘管我們的第二個挑戰是引導這些跨域合作能合諧交融，所有人都能在其中有空間呼吸和茁壯成長。
從透過關注有限且精確的文本開始（扎格森學校），使溫室計劃通過科學家的網絡和藝術家以及文化組織的合作網絡進行全球範圍內的擴展，我們希望通過這些合作增加國際能見度。能見度確實是我們的最後一項挑戰。囊謙是西藏的一個偏遠地區，由於從溫室發展出來的藝術和科學網絡，這個地區將在世界上越來越受到關注。透過典型藝術市場或科學資助系統以外的溝通渠道，這種擴展將得以實現，這要歸功於一個將本地居民的教育和利益放在首位，並向研究和創作提供可訪問信息共享的計劃，這些信息可供希望使用溫室數據的人使用，不僅限於學術機構。我們正在探索基於分享、空間和資源的慈善經濟的可能性，讓各種生命形式都能夠生存和茁壯成長。
2018 March, August, November | Founder of Tashi Getsen Charity School: Tsangsar Kunga ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ། | principal of Tashi Getsen Charity School: Dawa Konpu ཟླ་བ་མཁན་པོ། | project founder of the greenhouse construction: Tsangsar Kunga ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ།, Wiriya Rattanasuwan, site landlord: Tsangsar Metok ཚང་སར་མེ་ཏོག | local coordinators: Tsangsar Mohji ཚང་སར་མོ་སྐྱིད།
The Greenhouse of Hearts Project took root in the international volunteer collaboration between artist Shih Wei Chiehand Thai environmental engineer Wiriya Rattanasuwan. In November 2018, together with the Tashi Getsen Charity School and local residents of Nangqen, they spent three weeks building the first greenhouse prototype to provide year-round food for the orphaned children cared for by the school. Feeding all the students during winters, when temperatures drop to –30 °C, is an immense challenge. The greenhouse—designed and built by artists and researchers—had to withstand harsh weather while ensuring efficient, continuous production. One of the project’s first challenges, therefore, was to establish a working greenhouse capable of producing sufficient food with strong nutritional value.
From this foundation, the project envisions new branches: a scientific research laboratory and an artistic program, both feeding back into and supporting the greenhouse itself. With the involvement of diverse technologies, the greenhouse becomes a cross-disciplinary experimental site. One of the core experiments integrates IoT sensors into the structure, enabling the collection of weather and environmental data unique to high-altitude conditions. This data is shared openly on a public internet platform, creating the beginnings of an open research network that links scientists and practitioners across different fields. Yet another challenge lies in guiding these collaborations so they harmonize, ensuring that every participant has space to breathe and grow.
Starting from the focused context of the Tashi Getsen School, the project expands outward through networks of scientists, artists, and cultural organizations. Through these collaborations we seek to increase international visibility—an essential challenge for a region like Nangqen, a remote part of Tibet, now gradually coming into global awareness thanks to the scientific and artistic communities surrounding the greenhouse.
This expansion unfolds not through conventional art markets or academic funding systems, but through alternative channels of communication grounded in education, community benefit, and open information-sharing. Greenhouse data is made accessible beyond academic institutions, available to anyone wishing to use it for research or creation. In this way, the project explores the possibility of a charitable economy based on sharing, space, and resources, where diverse forms of life can not only survive but also thrive.
2018 March, August, November | Founder of Tashi Getsen Charity School: Tsangsar Kunga ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ། | principal of Tashi Getsen Charity School: Dawa Konpu ཟླ་བ་མཁན་པོ། | project founder of the greenhouse construction: Tsangsar Kunga ཚང་སར་ཀུན་དགའ།, Wiriya Rattanasuwan, site landlord: Tsangsar Metok ཚང་སར་མེ་ཏོག | local coordinators: Tsangsar Mohji ཚང་སར་མོ་སྐྱིད།
The Greenhouse of Hearts Project took root in the international volunteer collaboration between artist Shih Wei Chiehand Thai environmental engineer Wiriya Rattanasuwan. In November 2018, together with the Tashi Getsen Charity School and local residents of Nangqen, they spent three weeks building the first greenhouse prototype to provide year-round food for the orphaned children cared for by the school. Feeding all the students during winters, when temperatures drop to –30 °C, is an immense challenge. The greenhouse—designed and built by artists and researchers—had to withstand harsh weather while ensuring efficient, continuous production. One of the project’s first challenges, therefore, was to establish a working greenhouse capable of producing sufficient food with strong nutritional value.
From this foundation, the project envisions new branches: a scientific research laboratory and an artistic program, both feeding back into and supporting the greenhouse itself. With the involvement of diverse technologies, the greenhouse becomes a cross-disciplinary experimental site. One of the core experiments integrates IoT sensors into the structure, enabling the collection of weather and environmental data unique to high-altitude conditions. This data is shared openly on a public internet platform, creating the beginnings of an open research network that links scientists and practitioners across different fields. Yet another challenge lies in guiding these collaborations so they harmonize, ensuring that every participant has space to breathe and grow.
Starting from the focused context of the Tashi Getsen School, the project expands outward through networks of scientists, artists, and cultural organizations. Through these collaborations we seek to increase international visibility—an essential challenge for a region like Nangqen, a remote part of Tibet, now gradually coming into global awareness thanks to the scientific and artistic communities surrounding the greenhouse.
This expansion unfolds not through conventional art markets or academic funding systems, but through alternative channels of communication grounded in education, community benefit, and open information-sharing. Greenhouse data is made accessible beyond academic institutions, available to anyone wishing to use it for research or creation. In this way, the project explores the possibility of a charitable economy based on sharing, space, and resources, where diverse forms of life can not only survive but also thrive.