October 2012
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Food Security →
Meeting the challenges of the change.
November 2011
7 posts
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Food Assistance
http://www.good.is/post/transparency-the-growth-of-food-stamps/
“While some economists are declaring the recession over, and although the stock market continues to rise, those on the bottom of the economic ladder are seeing fewer improvements to their day-to-day lives. The number of Americans who receive assistance from the government in the form of food stamps continues to rise-the total...
Food Rules. An Eater's Manual
Yes, there are trailers for books now, too:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m26TFN2471LIO/ref=ent_fb_link
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Dead But Not Wasted
Roadkill meets gourmet cuisine in this wicked campaign by Susette.
Dead But Not Wasted does several things: It refers to our growing numbness and disability to empathize or even be shocked by certain conditions. At the same time it addresses our ignorance to what we eat. It shows how we want to be deceived - not to question further than the label or the price tag. And it opens up the...
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Paradise gained, paradise lost
Imagine there was a pill that would feed all of us..
No more grocery shopping distress.
No one would have to work to get nutrition.
Would the introduction of the pill mean the end to economic crisis?
The answer to saving energy?
We would all stay slim and would have more time to exercise.
Would we all look the same, too?
Imagine a world where there was a pill and no more...
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Looking through Coca Cola
Dustin was unsettled by a documentary he had seen on the scenes behind the scenes of this mega enterprise. In faithful détournement manner he approached CC’s wrong side and appropriated its style and visual language to almost innocently tell another truth..
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Why always so healthy..
Let’s admit it there is also the right time for the wrong food. Francesca thoroughly scouted Berlin for junk pearls and created this map for the after hours.
“FOOD JUNKYARD IS AN ILLUSTRATED MAP OF THE MOST TASTY URBAN HOTSPOTS TO FILL YOUR BELLY. FROM YOUR UNSTOPPABLE SWEET TOOTH TO THOSE LATE NIGHT CRAVINGS.
THE MAP HIGHLIGHTS LOCATIONS TO EAT WHERE THE PORTIONS ARE BIG, A FAIR...
October 2011
1 post
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Transdesign
Just found again a few student projects from the MFA Interdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New School in NYC… {http://transdesign.parsons.edu/}
Food Fights. Infrastructures of Power.
by Aaron Cansler & Benjamin Winter
“Our group was formed with the intention of exploring the roles of various institutional structures in their relationship to food production, distribution, and...
September 2011
3 posts
The City Atlas
via Shryia and Adriana: http://newyork.thecityatlas.org/
There are some nice food projects, too.
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Mad World Mad Solutions
“Vegetables will come from rooftop gardens and community plots; fish will feed off plankton in our kitchen tanks; ants, worms and grasshoppers will flavour breads; urban beehives will supply our honey; soil will be an ingredient; and meat will be a rare treat.”
At Copenhagen’s inaugural Mad FoodCamp, international food professionals define lurking food problems and cook up some...
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Announcement: Floating Food
at the HKW in Berlin.
“Water and food are elementary necessities for humanity. So where should we even begin to understand these things that meander through all areas of our physical and psychological lives? It has always been my artistic principle to adapt myself to these things, and to join the flow of their nature and their primordial conditions.“
To read more visit: http://www.hkw.de
August 2011
1 post
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Picnic Manuals available now!
We just launched our collection of Picnic-As-Tools manuals.
Have a look and be inspired - Bon Appetit!
July 2011
8 posts
FOOD by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978)
Amazing project by an amazing artist!
You can watch the documentary about FOOD on ubuweb.
About the Documentary:
“This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists’ cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space,...
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Save the Date
for Restaurant Day!
RESTAURANT DAY 21.8.2011 The Restaurant Day is a one-day carnival celebrating restaurant and food culture.
The first Restaurant Day was organized 21 May 2011. The next Restaurant Day will be 21 August 2011. Join the fun!On Restaurant Day we will arrange pop-up restaurants, cafés and bars without permission. All because we love food culture. One of the establishments can be...
Warum wir es auf der Straße tun
http://prinzessinnengarten.net/
Agriculture in the city
“Nomadisch Grün (Nomadic Green) launched Prinzessinnengärten(Princess gardens) as a pilot project in the summer of 2009 at Moritzplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg, a site which had been a wasteland for over half a century. Along with friends, fans, activists and neighbours, the group cleared away rubbish, built transportable organic...
Open Structures
“The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid. It initiates a kind of collaborative Meccano to which everybody can contribute parts, components and structures.”
It opens up a collaborative and innovative playground for great design solutions..
Visit...
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Papier Frites is
“a zine to unfold and hang up. Every issue contains a vegetarian recipe to cook and (at least) one song to listen to. And that’s how it comes up:
> There is a musician (at least one) who choses an ingredient > I think about a recipe > We meet, I cook, musician has to be present but doesn’t cook > We eat > And after that musician makes a song, or more than one...
Making art from waste: Phoenix Public Art
Für die Teammitglieder, die sich für die abfällige Seite unserer Nahrungskette interessieren..
meredithdf:
Courtesy of Adriana Young, the one and only:
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-art-of-solid-waste/13258/
A comprehensive photo essay of the small parts that make up masses of municipal waste.
The Wrong Campaign
“Sometimes unconventional concepts and solutions come from thinking the opposite way.”
We are all excited about food one way or another. We’ve been investigating tasty food, social food, healthy food, utopian food, political food and beautiful food. We researched and also designed good food initiatives and interventions trying to make the world a growing, sustainable and...
June 2011
15 posts
Upcoming..
at Food Pieces, center for food-related research and design solutions:
Stay tuned as we are finalizing our picnic-as-tool concepts and preparing design manuals for you to apply to your next picnic and change the way you thought, approached or consumed your life!
On our menu we’ll offer a ‘Kiez’ food bus tour to go deep local, a networking picnic to celebrate your community and...
Food Design Vortrag
http://www.designtransfer.udk-berlin.de/index.php?n=Veranstaltungen.FoodDesign
“Wir leben in einer Gesellschaft, die über Herkunft, Inhalt und Bedeutung ihrer Nahrung so wenig Bescheid weiß wie keine zuvor. Der Vortrag beleuchtet einen bisher wenig diskutierten Aspekt unseres Essens, jenen des Designs und untersucht, welche Geschichten unsere Nahrung erzählt und was die alltäglichen...
The Tiniest Picnic
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Once creative..
how to maintain your creativity in 29 simple steps.
By http://www.to-fu.tv/
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For instant creative relief..
..no matter what you’re working on:
“We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of thinking will become much more creative. But if you’re racing around all day, ticking things off a list, looking at your...
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Check out BLDGBLOG's Spaces of Food Series!
BLDGBLOG (“BUILDING BLOG”) is written by Geoff Manaugh in Los Angeles, California. He makes all kinds of discoveries and very likely with a particular focus on ARCHITECTURAL CONJECTURE, URBAN SPECULATION & LANDSCAPE FUTURES. In his series SPACES OF FOOD Geoff gathered views on agriculture-to-go, inflatable greenhouses on the moon, mushroom tunnels, betel nut beauties and odorless...
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Countries most vulnerable to Food Shock
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42751468/?slide=1
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E-Tapas!
Found during this year’s Berlin Design Festival @ DMY
or: TEMPORARY PHOTOELECTRIC DIGESTOPIANS WORKLAB
a tasty workshop proposal:
”[…] research based experimentations on the transformation of light energy into electric energy with food. Fusing cooking and solar tech and designs, the participants will work with edible materials to create ‘e-tapas’ of different aesthetics and...
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quest for the waste mountain
http://boringdesign.org/quest-for-the-waste-mountain/
“On May 21st three brave people on bikes took off to find the mysterious Waste Mountain in Kępa Zawadzka 15km south, on the fringes of Warsaw. On the way we explored the landscapes and flora of the wild Vistula bank. We also had a horseradish eating competition, did embroideries, found a secret motorcycle racetrack, listened to genuine...
1/3 of the global food supply is never eaten.... →
“While global populations may be edging closer to a food crisis, it is not due to a lack of food. According to a study conducted by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, one-third of all the food produced around the world, approximately 1.3 billion tons a year, is never eaten. That is, one-third of the global food supply is lost or thrown away. The report indicated that...
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Guerrilla Salad
“2 cool chicks lookin’ to cause a ruckus.
Do you know where you’re food comes from? Do you value convenience over quality? Do you feel a loyalty to local farms? Find out by taking the GUERRILLA SALAD CHALLENGE!”
Found on http://guerrillasalad.wordpress.com/
Watcholiverscity:
You Are What You Eat.
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Fungotopia
http://www.makeandthink.de/fungutopia/
fungutopia is an installation, a workshop, a prototype and a community-project //
As an installation fungutopia shows the different possibilities that mushrooms offer to help to make the world a better place: Mushrooms are open source medicine, food, fertilizer and soil-recovery-method. They can be cultivated quite simply even indoor and are perfect for...
May 2011
29 posts
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young, urban, confused & hungry ?
Hold on, we’re working on it!!
Last week we pitched our initial picnic ideas to one another and to an indifferent bear and some hyperactive sparrows.. Soon we’ll picnic it to you!
So long “Stay hungry, stay foolish!”
For more images visit our flickr site!
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Rooftop Farms
New urbanism?
Check out the other attempts in re-shaping the city: http://www.babelgum.com/3021540#
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The Picnic Assignment
Young urbanites of our generation, you are seriously confused! All these options, everywhere, all the time. An over abundance of positivity and possibilities. We know, it can get overwhelming sometimes..
Therefore our team of critical designers and forward thinkers have developed a range of picnic formats that will come to the rescue and cause instant relief. They have designed the...
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Fruit City seems to be the fashionable UK version...
“Fruit City is a growing map and network of all the fruit trees in public spaces in London. Logged and mapped by the Fruit City team and you.
Yes we live in a sometimes harsh urban sprawl, but nature is all around us. Much of the fruit we buy in the city is from far flung places like Spain, Brazil and Chile, but literally tons of fruit grows in our own fair city. Don’t believe us?...
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Zeitgeist
Just the other week we talked about dumpster diving and now the local street magazine Motz put it on their front cover. It finally arrived in Berlin..
At the same time Die Zeit focussed in their latest issue on -what else could it be - food! Essen als Heimat / Food as Home.
We’re in good company and are riding on the Zeitgeist wave. Naturally our research team is now challenged to go...
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Foodist Flaneurs
We took a trip ‘up’ to Prenzlauer Berg to check out the latest developments and concept stores around edible delights.
We found tapioca balls that burst in your mouth. An ice cream parlor that offers fish lunches. And a store hybrid between a cafe and a flower shop gone zoo.. We also visited the Kochhaus which Nora claimed to be the “perfect emergency store for male singles...
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Yoko's Appetite
Found in Edible Manhattan and a readable version can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foodpieces/5745348531/in/photostream/
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Adrian's 5-Day Food Report →
Adrian wants to spare us the visual details but if your German is fine you can still enjoy his 1 week feast in his own words!
harrycan:
Also, zum Anfang möchte ich sagen, dass es keine Fotos geben wird, da diese wahrscheinlich nicht so besonders lecker aussehen würden! Zur Hintergrundinformation, ich mache einmal die Woche einen Großeinkauf bei Kaufland, da kommt es mir nicht darauf an was ich...
