What it is: Slow Food Foundation support projects which involve producers and local communities growing biodiversity and traditional food. Some of the projects are:  The Ark of Taste identifies and catalogues quality food products at risk of extinction. Today products on board number more than 5,000 from over 120 countries.  The Slow Presidia: The Presidia sustain quality […]
I’m still working on the majority, but that is the current version. poster_draft
As discussed, here is my poster: plakat_Hyperfood. The back ist just a concept, I have to rearrange everything, but just for the fist hand … WHAT: The Hyperfood is an approach to redesign the traditional distribution system for local and seasonal food by implementing it into existing infrastructure and using environmentally friendly technologies. Local farms […]
What it is: Foodsharing is an internet platform that gives private individuals, traders and producers the opportunity to offer or collect surplus food free of charge. This is done in FairTeilern which has set up rooms in publicly accessible places in various parts of the city, such as here in the Bürgerzentrum Ehrenfeld e.V. The […]
Die Tafel What it is: Die Tafel–The charitable boards create a balance: they collect surplus, qualitatively perfect food and distribute it to socially and economically disadvantaged people. With their fast and unbureaucratic help, the Tafeln alleviate the consequences of poverty in a rich society – and stand for solidarity and humanity. Where it is: Germany-organisation […]
Hey guys Check out the new poster here. The pdf also has an A5 factsheet where we put the keywords, stakeholders etc. which will go below the poster. Now I am going to take the content of the poster you will post today, and put it into the new template. And then give the poster back […]
The Good Food What it is: The Good Food sells products of all kinds that would otherwise have been destroyed as waste. The owner (Nicole)  goes into fields after they have been harvested and collects the vegetables left behind. Some of them are deemed too big, some too small, some just too ugly to sell. […]
NeuLand What it is: NeuLand is an urban community garden that is using an uncultivated area by planting diverse vegetables, fruits and other plants in transportable boxes. They grow in transportable boxes, because the soil is contaminated and therefore unusable for gardening and also their time is limited, as there are probably some plans coming […]

Food is increasingly getting on the agenda of design and designers. And there is need for new approaches!

In this international project, we will research and analyse structures and processes related to food production, distribution and consumption in (future) cities (Cologne/Taipei).

We will develop possibilities of future approaches, especially in the context of increasing digitization (AI, IoT, blockchain, traceability, bait to plate, farm to fork) – and question them critically.

  • How can we design a different relation to food, its ingredients and values, its production and culture, its habits and processes?
  • How can we create new relations and values to ingredients of food?
  • How can we connect (us to) different stakeholders, especially to build relations between farmer/producer and consumer.

A part of the project team – max. 6 students – will be able to work in Taipei for a week in November, supported by students from SCID Taipei and the project group in Cologne. Details will be clarified in the first project meeting.

In Cologne, we work together with local experts and stakeholders.

At the end of the semester, both the analysis and drafts / prototypes will be presented.

In the project we refer to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular to SDG 11 and 12. Due to the topic, it might be possible to submit the results to the Cumulus Green Award (and I will encourage and support you to do so).

We will approach the project by questions we want to explore. In the beginning, we will have the opportunity to find a huge variety of questions and then discuss them – amongst us and with others . in order to find out the most relevant ones. Relevant in terms of the need to approach them and relevant to approach them from the perspective of design.

Pre-meeting: if you have questions or want to make sure that you are really in the project – or want to influence the character of the project even before it started please try to join our pre-meeting on Thursday September 26 at 12.30

First official meeting: This is mandatory for all that want to join – it will be on Tuesday October 22 at 10.00. In this meeting I want to see what your specific interest in this project is – so please subscribe to this space, contribute with some relevant questions and maybe cases as well…

Regular meetings: The regular meetings are always on Tuesday at 10.00. As I mentioned due to some travel activities we won’t meet every Tuesday, but there will be weeks where we meet twice or longer during the Tuesday meeting. There is a GoogleDoc with all our meetings (always updated). If you are not available we can arrange to connect via zoom – but always let me know before. 

Taiwan trip: the workshop in Taiwan is scheduled for November 18-23. The core group not traveling to Taipei will proceed meeting here and we will remotely collaborate via our KISDspace and zoom (see above).

We can learn a lot from existing cases and studies. Here we are collecting relevant cases how digitalisation  influences and affects food farming, production, distribution and consumption. How farmers/producers are connected to consumers, the rural to the urban.

Cases are structured around 3 core questions: What it is, Where it is and Why it is relevant. In addition, cases have tags / keywords to made them more accessible and findable. It would be great to use the comment function about the use of cases to create additional information

Here we will collect interesting experts: individuals, organisations or initiatives who are doing something we consider valuable in the context of the project. They can be (preferrably) from the area Cologne or Taipei with the purpose to meet them for an interview, invite them for a talk or a workshop, or to go for a visit or a field trip.

This is the page where we share our digital communication – in this case video messages between Cologne and Taipei to figure out what’s the best way to keep in touch. And for live connections please use https://zoom.us/j/5505005500

No query required.