Diana Samano Ramos January 30, 2020 12:14 am

Slow food Foundation /The Ark os taste

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 production at risk of extinction, protect unique regions and ecosystems, recover traditional processing methods, safeguard native breeds and local plant varieties

Where it is: around 100 years

Why is relevant: The Foundation’s projects are tools to promote a model of agriculture that is based on local biodiversity and respect for the land and the local culture, is in harmony with the environment and aims to provide food sovereignty and access to good, clean and fair food for all communities.

URL: https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/

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Sarah-Yasmine Aoufi January 29, 2020 10:35 pm

80/20 Poster

I’m still working on the majority, but that is the current version.

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María Becerra Martínez January 29, 2020 5:00 pm

Tri-cycle poster

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Matea Varvodic January 29, 2020 8:46 am *

Hyperfood plakat

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 are connected through an underground tube system that transports capsules with pneumatic power to pick up points that keep food cold with a minimum use of energy due to the fact that they are placed underground. To be easily accessible and so that several people can benefit from the system pick up points are placed in the most condensed and easy reachable parts of the city.

WHY: Todays food distribution system does not work on his highest efficiency level due to many touchpoints between producer and consumer as packaging, logistics, transportation and similar. Additionally, the volume of traffic increases especially in densely populated parts of the cities and traffic jams occur due to freight transportation. Consequently, emissions are increasing. As cities have to deal with less infrastructure in the future and the significance of technologies and digitalization is still rising, a new way of transportation is necessary.

HOW: My future approach of transportation tries to tackle these obstacles by implementing an underground transportation system into CGN’s existing infrastructure as unused tunnels from the roman empire or KVB and used metro tunnels. Since the capsules in which the food is transported have a capacity of 6kg and thus a diameter of about 30cm, the transport system is place-saving and can be placed in tunnels, even in those that are still in use. The capsules are transported from the farms to the pick-up points with the use of air pressure that pushes the capsules trough the underground tube system. Hubs between the tubes and the microchip, which is implemented in each capsule and that stores the target location of the capsule enable the capsule to reach the desired destination. The whole food ordering process is managed through a digital platform where farmers can insert their daily offers and consumers can place their appropriate orders, track their order, see recipes corresponding to the farmers offers, book a farm visit, rate farms and the food and pay digital.

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Anna Luz Joséphine Pueyo Kirwan January 29, 2020 5:27 am

poster speisewald

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Kira Eßer January 28, 2020 9:44 pm

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

Why it is relevant: The table also works with surplus food that is still of high quality and edible. However, in this case, support is given to the needy who often cannot afford the weekly shopping for their family.

URL: https://www.tafel.de/

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David Martens January 28, 2020 6:24 pm

Poster and Meeting on Monday 03/02

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 to you if you want to change anything. We have decided to give the user story appropriate space, but it should make ideal use of these dimensions:

380mm by 540mm or 38cm by 54cm

That’s the amount of space you get on your poster for your user story. Please have your final one ready by Wednesday evening 29/01 So I can put them in the new poster on Thursday. (As you notice, quite some attention now is going to your question and text How/What/Why, so it might be worth spending some extra time on that!)

On Monday 03/02 prof. HK and I want to meet you in R240 at 10:00, with the exact built-up exhibition pieces you are using. Every student can get the key for room 058, so organize yourself and get your exh. systems at 09:00. We can then shuffle the pieces around and make good use of the space (and clean it up when necessary).

Let’s get readyyyyy! I have asked for the foodlab on Thursday for a final dinner together, after a hopefully successful presentation 😉

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum January 28, 2020 11:31 am

The Good Food

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. In her shop, the organic food then becomes accessible to everyone using a “pay what you think” system. Buyers can also find non-perishable products from big manufacturers which have passed their sell-by dates.

Where it is: Köln-Ehrenfeld

Why it is relevant: We planned a cooperation with The Good Food concerning the transportation of the vegetables from the farmer to the shops. The shared costs of renting a van, pay for petrol or buying a new vehicle would lower the costs on both sides, make the process easier, faster and products cheaper for the consumer.

URL: https://www.the-good-food.de/

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum January 28, 2020 11:27 am

NeuLand

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 up in the next years for construction concepts from Stadt Köln.

Where it is: Bayenthal, Köln

Why it is relevant: The area they use fits perfectly for putting our concept of Echt Essbar into place. As the area they use is the city’s property and they don’t mind sharing a small part of the space, it gives Echt Essbar a relaxed and natural environment to settle in. Also Neuland profits from a cooperation, since they might get more attention for their own projects.

URL: http://www.neuland-koeln.de/

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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

David Martens October 28, 2019 2:29 pm *

Meeting 29/10

Dear teams! Today and tomorrow, the ‘Probevorlesungen’ are taking place. these are try-out lectures from applicants for the position of Professorship in ‘Designing Digital Futures’. Since everyone should have the opportunity to go see those lectures (which you should cause they are probably awesome), the school has decided to not have any official meetings running during those times.

Tomorrow, two more lectures are happening in the lecture hall.
1. 8:30-9:30
2. 10:45-11:45

And as you notice the second one would be during our meeting. Therefore, I suggest postponing the meeting to 13:00 o’clock in Room 303. Please bring yourself and your team, your work and your questions and we will prepare ourselves for the days to come. The cooking at Foodlab will definitely take place, I hope there are enough people interested to stay for dinner! Please answer on Anna-Luz her post if you are joining for the evening. See you!

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David Martens October 23, 2019 6:58 pm *

Questions of 22/10

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David Martens October 22, 2019 4:10 pm *

Recap Meeting 22/10

This post is to shortly summarise today’s meeting and repeat the assignments for next week. For all of the people currently in Venice, you are expected to run through today´s presentation (here) Also, you have been assigned to a team and will have to organise yourself to do individual/collective research.

Within the presentation, the Creative Food Cycles project is introduced https://creativefoodcycles.org which has “… the aim of developing a cultural and holistic approach, joining all the aspects of Food Cycle: from production to distribution (phase 1), from distribution to consumption (phase 2) and from consumption to disposition (phase 3).”

Now we will organise our research (at this stage) according to the way they are treating the complex matter of the food cycle, according to those three phases. We have divided the group into three teams, each covering one of those phases.

Phase 1: From Production to Distribution: Anna-Luz, Clara, Jeldrik, Samya,

Phase 2: From Distribution to Consumption: Maxime, Diana, Matea, Maria, Kojiro

Phase 3: From Consumption to Disposition: Kalia, Yasmine, Kira, Sarah, Anastasia

→ It is your task to investigate the assigned phase as a team and individually look at 2-3 cases which belong to your (or more) phases. You can start by getting familiar with the catalogue by the Creative Food Cycles project. Download it here from their website.

→ Also, everyone individually should contribute 2 precisely formulated questions to the repository on spaces. When formulating questions, try to relate it to the phases and we will see whether it functions as a structure for our work, for coming up with own projects and a joint exhibition at the end.

All of this information you can find in the presentation. Connect with your team members and ask them to update you! We will meet again next Tuesday at 10:00 in which we will discuss the current state of the research and how we will present the materials the week after on Tuesday the 5th of November.

And then last but not least! The Foodlab!! For next week on Tuesday, we have three volunteers to prepare something for us in the evening. To create an idea of the budget, we decided on a max. of €5 pp. If you are keen to join for food next Tuesday evening (and I hope everyone is!) please comment with a simple “I’m in for food” underneath this post so the crew knows for how many they are cooking!

See you next week

EDIT: I have also set up a Google Drive which you can use to share pdf’s of research papers, statistics … For now, it is organised according to the three phases, including one extra folder for research which covers multiple phases. Let’s see how that works out. Access the Drive here.

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David Martens October 17, 2019 5:39 pm *

Circular Food Economy Model

Expanding upon the post about circular economy by prof. Heidkamp, here is an article looking specifically at food within that framework, by Dr Francesca Zampollo.

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Now when you click on the hashtag #circular economy, both the posts should be visible. Let’s share!

A fascinating photography series related to food is ‘Last Supper’ by Celia Shapiro. The photographs portray the last meal that was chosen and eaten by interns who received the death penalty. What would you choose as your last meal? 😮

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David Martens October 17, 2019 5:07 pm

Quick Recap Meeting 15/10

It was nice to see you share your thoughts, interests and questions on Tuesday! After grouping them together, searching for commonalities, we got to these 6 big overarching themes:

(ZERO) WASTE – NUTRITION – RETAIL – EDUCATION – AGRICULTURE – OWNERSHIP

Although we started breaking down the bigger themes into sub-themes, next week we will continue defining direction(s) during the Kick-Off.

When posting research on spaces (cheers Sarah and Anna-Luz for already doing so!) we talked about working with Categories and Tags to organise the matter according to specific themes. Until we are sure of the different themes we will research, I’d suggest when making a post, you can choose one (or more) categories on the left underneath the textbox (such as Cases, Experts, Literature, Research, …) And also use one or more tags, defining the further content of the post. An example post will follow just after.

See you next Tuesday at 10.00 in Room 303 with prof. Heidkamp!

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David Martens September 28, 2019 2:15 pm

Recap First Meetup 26/09

It was a pleasure to meet all of you, I am already looking forward to swapping stories over food! This post is to shortly recap Thursday’s meeting and communicate to the ones who were not there.

Besides what can be found in the project description, “we will research and analyse structures and processes related to food production, distribution and consumption”, prof. Heidkamp gave an introduction and breakdown of the different elements to be taken into the project.

FUTURE | CITIES | FOOD
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DIGITIZATION | SUSTAINABILITY

FUTURE?

Futures? The future? What could design bring to the (future) table? Considering the role of the ‘Gestalter’ (such a good German word…), designers too can anticipate and speculate by developing narratives and building scenarios. Besides being a powerful storytelling tool, materialising these possible future scenarios can enhance the imaginative potential of any actor involved and bring it a step closer to becoming a reality. Those future approaches by designers allow creative freedom and offer many possibilities through different mediums.

French Sci-fi Team https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49044892
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2g4uHsN5DU and of course the book itself, worth reading!

CITIES?

KISD is situated in the city of Cologne, which is the biggest in the state North Rhine Westphalia, one of Europe’s major metropolitan areas. With 1 million inhabitants and a population density of 2700 people per km2, the urban context of Cologne is at odds with our second city of interest, Taipei. When considering the Greater Taipei Area, situated in the north of the island of Taiwan, it has a population of 7 million people and a much higher population density.

What are the relations between the city and its surroundings? How do the bigger mechanisms in each of these places work? How can those different urban environments inform our design process? … For cities, we will also look at the interdependencies with their close peripheries, rural environments. This is where food takes its route in many cases.

FOOD?

As we have felt already yesterday, food matters to us all! Within this project, we will be using a variety of lenses on the topic but going beyond the material exploration and take not only the human, or specific touchpoint perspective, but also the systems perspective.
What are the cultural dimensions of food in each of the urban environments? How does the restaurant and hospitality industry in cities influence food consumption? … We brought up many points in the following discussion: Digital Technology, Traceability, Blockchain, Restaurants and Food Design, Health and special requirements / needs, Farming in the peri-urban surroundings of cities, Waste Conversion and Food By-products (not in terms of materiality, but in terms of data, information and processes) etc.

Looking at the study of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on „CITIES AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR FOOD“ is highly recommended, more sources will follow!

DIGITIZATION + SUSTAINABILITY?

Technology and digitization allow us to enhance and facilitate processes, but also increase transparency and empower individuals involved in the food context. Looking at the way from „farm to fork“ and also at smaller farms, not only at the food industry. As a first guiding element, the increasing digitization can help us ask the appropriate questions and evaluate possibilities.

Finally, in 2019, it is unthinkable to detach sustainability from any design question – especially from food. As a final overarching umbrella, sustainability is a dimension which should be integrated in any design practice! As said before, within this project the UN Sustainable Development Goals (and other sustainability frameworks) will be referenced.

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So far the introduction (but not yet the Kick-Off!). Further, to keep track of the variety of research, we will organise the spaces once we have clustered our questions and developed areas of interest.

But for now, besides the “cases” space, there is now an “experts” space in which we can all add interesting individuals, organisations or initiatives who are doing something we consider valuable in the context of the project. They can be from area Cologne or Taipei (or anywhere else) with the purpose to invite them for a talk or a workshop, or to go for a visit or a field trip. This will be especially important during the beginning of the project so we can contact and invite the possible guest timely.

Lastly, we have decided to come together on the 15th of October at 10:00 in Room 303 where we will discuss the questions you will bring to the table, organise the room and decide how we will use the foodlab!?

Have a good weekend!

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Slow food Foundation /The Ark os taste

80/20 Poster

Tri-cycle poster

Hyperfood plakat

poster speisewald

Die Tafel

Poster and Meeting on Monday 03/02

NeuLand

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Questions of 22/10

Recap Meeting 22/10

Circular Food Economy Model

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Slow food Foundation /The Ark os taste

80/20 Poster

Tri-cycle poster

Hyperfood plakat

FairTeiler Köln

poster speisewald

Die Tafel

Poster and Meeting on Monday 03/02

The Good Food

NeuLand

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Questions of 22/10

Recap Meeting 22/10

Circular Food Economy Model

Quick Recap Meeting 15/10

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