June 2011
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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...
