Congratulations, Ana-Luz and Clara for finally submitting your work at the Cumulus Green competition. Interesting for all to see the submission(s)!

From my perspective, the requirements helped you to get a clearer profile for your project – good luck with it and keen to see more next week!

What it is: Yatai Cart is a response in order to upcycle an unused space between buildings in Fukuoka, “Notes Architects” created a low-cost stand that enables a local coffee shop to be open on weekdays. The do-it-yourself design and low manufacturing cost are the basic principles that insipired the project, consisting of 17 panels made up of square timbers and plywood. It’s main concept was inspired by food talls, salled “Yatai”, and is based on the idea that a primary function of such stalls is to be portable: easy to set up when shops open and easily removed again when they close.
 
Where it is: Fukuoka, Japan. 2018.

Why it is relevant: Yatai Cart enables a cafe to open a coffee stand as an approved bussiness, under the current circumstances, many public spaces are not effectively used in Japan, even though they could be re-activated by implementing existing regulatory restrictions as design opportunities. It contributes to design a long-term vision based on food and creativity for urban neglected spaces in Japan.

 
Contact: Note Architects, http://note-arch.com/
 

Tricycle poster

What it is: La Peruana Coffee is a Pulpaking project that contributes to the sensitive environmental problem in Lima with the development of 100% biodegradable and compostable containers (20 x 25 cm), made from kitchen and agricultural waste (such as rice straw, sugar cane, plantation pseudostem and pineapple leaf) or scrap material resistant to water (such as the coffee shell). The project implementation applies principles of biotechnology to the design of the final packaging, by means of a cardboard machine.
 
Where it is: Lima, Perú.

Why it is relevant: The cultural impact of this project is to generate awareness and environmental education with the use of sustainable packaging, as well as it contributes to sustainable food cycles for it’s capacity of reducing significantly the plastics wholesale distrubution, resusing food waste as a new material to pack edibles.

 
Contact: palominonolascoelizabeth@gmail.com
 
What it is: PermaFungi is a social cooperative based on urban agriculture participatory actions combined with circular economy principles. It’s main goal is to recycle urban organic waste mixed with coffee grounds to grow oyster mushrooms and to produce compost. Additionally, PermaFungi offers various kits to grow mushrooms at home as well as educational workshops regarding the cultivation techniques and permaculture seminars.

Where it is: Brussels, Belgique. 2014.

Why it is relevant: PermaFungi has been created in response to the industrialization of agriculture and the necessity to change contemporary production and consumption models, contributing to urban resilience through a user-oriented approach, by offering stable job opportunities to young unemployed or disadvantaged people as well as contributing to a decentralized mushroom production based on an open network of collaboration and creating high value-added products in a fabrication workshop.

 
 

What it is: Very well written article or food report, answering commonly asked questions about climate change and food

Where it is: Worldwide

Why it is relevant: The article answers many questions an individual might have regarding the climate change and food issue, especially regarding the way they intertwine with each other. Exact stats and explanations are being given about meat, seafood, dairy and suggestions how to eat more plants without entirely giving up on animal sourced products.

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/dining/climate-change-food-eating-habits.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&assetType=REGIWALL&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=F0CCD182434F2964EA82AF55B1D4BE2B&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL

 

What it is: Extended nutrition labeling: Nutri-Score, a simplified, expanded nutrition label system on the front of the food packaging. With the Nutri-Score, a five-point scale from A to E shows the overall score for the nutritional value of a product. For this purpose, the number of calories and nutritionally favorable and unfavorable nutrients are offset against each other.

Where it is: France, Belgium and particular brands in Europe

Why it is relevant: The expanded nutritional labeling is intended to give the consumer an actual additional benefit and make the healthy choice an easy choice. For this it is important that the model is well perceived and understood by consumers.
Too much sugar, fats, saturated fatty acids and too much salt are not the only, but important reasons for the development of nutritional diseases such as obesity or cardiovascular diseases.
In addition to a variety of measures to promote a healthy diet, a simplified, expanded nutritional labeling system is an important component of the BMEL’s nutrition policy: if consumers can easily see what a food is like in terms of nutrients, orientation is easier and healthy Choice becomes easier. An understandable representation on the front of the food (front-of-pack) can influence the product selection and thus the nutrient supply in a nutritionally favorable manner.

URL: https://www.bmel.de/DE/Ernaehrung/Kennzeichnung/FreiwilligeKennzeichnung/_Texte/Naehrwertkennzeichnungs-Modelle-MRI-Bericht.html#doc12323462bodyText1

What it is: Copper Branch plant-based power food, a restaurant focusing on plant-based foods.

Where it is: US, Canda, France

Why it is relevant: Plant-based diets offer all the necessary protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals for optimal health, and are often higher in fiber and phytonutrients. More and more people in North America are adopting a plant-based diet, or grow increasingly interested in the matter, so Copper Branch, being one of many, decided to capitalize on the wholesome, plant-based, non-GMO, and fast-casual restaurant market.

URL: https://eatcopperbranch.com/

 

Hi David, sorry the delay, attached the poster. In the poster is the text of why, what and how. 

Poster_FF

What it is: Buy when you want and what you want: fruits and vegetables, cheese, meat, bread, drinks and much more … An app with a flexible option to buy with no membership fee or minimum order value. 

Where it is: Europe

Why is relevant: The community of farmers could sell their products in fair prices including the biodiversity options that the Supermarkets don’t want to buy or pay. Buying in this apps support the farmers to grow more biodiversity products, with help with quality soils, better harvest, minerals etc. 

URL: https://marktschwaermer.de/de

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

Hope you had a good session yesterday! As I will be in the Scottish Highlands until Sunday I need to give you some remote comments (general ones9 in order to make or keep you productive until next Tuesday. Lets put it like this; next Tuesday we have to decide what we will show and exhibit and from now on you should block four days a week for working on the project (if excited, more of course).

Please keep on reworking the table. I made some general comments on the categories we were asking for.

Together with David I will start to give more detailed individual feedback in the next year. Can you please all share a photo of your planned artefact by tomorrow / THURSDAY so that you can get feedback and iterate before our meeting next TUESDAY. A

Please prepare a schedule for tomorrow in order to make sure everybody of you has its 20min slot to present and discuss the current status according to last weeks requirements. As this is the last meeting in this year it will be important to be on the same page. As 228 is way bigger than 303 it would be fine for me to meet there, I leave it up to you if you want to travel again to my office 311. So we are 8 groups / topics this means 3 hours work fine for 8×20 mins.

Please prepare a schedule with time / project name so that I know who will shop up when.

If there should be any important things to clarify before tomorrow please make a posting comment.

I hope you all agree that the individual meetings make a lot of sense – even if 20 mins is too short, we will increase the time. I took notes of some comments I had and want to share them with you. Hope it is useful. For the next time, please all work on the assignment of last time but bring results in all the points to address.

Team Food Forrest

(Anna Luz, Clara)

What are the core elements defining a food forest?

Artefact: Tensiometer

Scenario: needs to be clarified now, use as a method of inquiry!

Data Ecosystem: still t.b.d.

Places: Opportunities Theodor-Heuss-Ring: Rheinpendel https://www.dieguten.koeln/rheinpendel/

Maybe two places (1 and 2).

What is different from Neuland? Is it Neuland 2.0

Fermentation requires some infrastructure

Good experts!

Contact Neuland: Dorothea Hohengarten <dorothea.hohengarten@googlemail.com> and Clara von Hartz-Möllmann <vonhartz@moellmann-law.com>

Team Seasonal Restaurant Concept

(Samia, Maxime)

Universal restaurant concept

What would the 24 seasons mean for our relation to and understanding of food and farming.

2 future assumptions 2050

Very good system map as a basis for scenarios

Scenarios for Farmer and Consumer are now necessary!

Play around with

German names for the seasons!

  • How do restaurants deal with the problem that some (20%? 60%) of their meals are of non-seasonal or non-regional products?
  • How do you as a consumer deal with recipes and shopping with non/less seasonal / regional food? How smart would it be?

Experts: 2 restaurant owners, farmers (maybe also the founder of Ökomarkt Dr. Dornbusch <christoph.dornbusch@agrarkonzept.de>

Consumers: use design methods like diary, cultural probes

Team Stuff and Veggies / Jedöns on Jemös

Jeldrik, Anastasia, Kira

Place: Use an existing area (Neuland)

Constituting elements of the concepts: shared / community kitchen, food bank / donations, eco-saving shop, chill out area, art exhibitions, music screenings, jam sessions -> might be too much at the same time!

Can temporary use like Neuland be a way if the bureaucracy takes so long

Stakeholder: a lot of stakeholder,

Places: walk around and look at possible places!

Scenario: Missing. Who will use your concept how? Weather, years, how many days of rain

Data Ecosystem: related to the concept, how will this affect stakeholders.

Experts: some farmers, please exchange your contacts to avoid one farmer gets 3 calls from us without knowing from each other

Artefact: Apple? Artefact, object, thing, product?

Redesign food distribution in Cologne / Hyperfood network

Matea

Letter shoot principle for food

Very well understood the structure / infrastructure and network existing in Cologne

What would be necessary is to understand about the required quantity

Focus on the question of type of food and transportation modes (how fast, what needs to be fresh, what´s the typical you need at a fingertip). Hyperloop vs. drones.

Good use of the Underground Fridge (https://www.groundfridge.com/dutch-design-week/) as a public fridge

Using existing infrastructures

Scenario: not so much about privacy issues etc, more about building and using the system from different perspectives (farmer, architect,

Data Ecosystem: lot of opportunities!

Experts: Hyperloop expert, architect, shop/chain (Rewe, Aldi…)
Understand a specific area in Cologne and focus on that for creating more “data layers”

Understand the consumption of goods (per capita use of, then calculate for an area)

Artefact: ?

Something like: Redesigning food / eating behaviour of specific type of students through an impactful intervention  (?)

Yasmine

Scenario: Student goes after class to…

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Studentenwerk, nutrition scientist, restaurant owner next to Unis Mensas

Artefact:

(back to the) Roots

Kalia

Design a product with the main idea of sharing,

cooler, using tradition (like clay etc.)

Scenario: not yet

Data Ecosystem:

Experts:

Artefact: The cooler / fridge, but at the moment too elaborated.

Seasonal seasoning (?) or: Integrated / Holis Restaurant, Food Cycle, Food Circle

Maria

Restaurant integrating production, consumption and distribution

Place: where can it be in the city? Which type of building (new one / existing one). If a new one: what are the requirements for the building

Do not do architecture, do spatial structures to address the needs of process and system, slightly to create an experience

Storyboard: needs to be more specific.

Scenario:

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Farmers, chef cooking regional, understanding the seasonality of fruits and vegetables in our region

Artefact:

Look at noma Copenhagen (https://noma.dk/) and https://de.phaidon.com/agenda/food/articles/2018/february/21/why-bjarke-ingels-based-noma-2-0-on-a-farm/

Redesigning food market in Cologne or: Branding Biodeversity

Sarah, Diana

Promote biodversity and traditional meals, while connecting farmer and urban communities

Very good background information about biodiversity

Focus on potato

Germans eat 61 kg potatoes every year: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37703/umfrage/pro-kopf-verbrauch-von-kartoffeln-in-den-laendern-der-eu/

How to orchestrate biodiversity: a range of a product (4000 sorts of potatoes)

https://www.gustagarden.com/kartoffelsorten/

Learn from corporate branding strategies: Potato of the year or year of the potatoes

Scenario:

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Farmers

Artefact: Something that brands a specific product

In our meeting last Tuesday we had 5 students so for next Tuesday we need all on board sharing their topics and concepts – your projects – to work on so that we are able to fix this from Dec 3 on.

So please make up your mind and be clear about the question you want to work on, about an idea what you might develop, about people (farmer, retail, market staff, restaurant chef, community kitchen owner, CSA organizer etc.) you need to interview, about cases you are referring to.  You need to know about your context. I suggest next Tuesday to make a joined start of the meeting with all of us and then proceed with the individual projects you are working on. If you should not be able to join – for which reason ever – please make sure that I can have access to your approach (through posting it, material, video etc.).

A last word from the students still being in Taiwan: they are all traveling, attending farms and farmers and for sure will gain a lot of new insights. They all left their computers in Taipei so no time to make a posting now. They will share their information latest Monday so that we are all on the same page next Tuesday.

Looking very much forward to this next phase of our exciting project!

Please find here the link to the first presentation we shared between SCID and KISD to share the concepts and here the link to the final presentations at SCID. Both files are > 1.5 GB…this will be improved in the future!

Do you think the live session and the videos here are  helpful?

In our next meeting, we aim to reconnect the current work on the projects in Cologne to the 6 topics realized in Taipei. Please all (Kalia, Maria, Sarah, Anastasia, Diana, Kira, Kojiro) prepare a short presentation of the current status and to which group / topic it might relate. This includes your updated question (I am sure you will like it).

Last week I was aksing you to share your CASES. Thank you Kalia, Maria, Sarah-Yasmine for doing so – and where are your CASES Samia, Anastasia, Diana, Kira, Kojiro? Please do this latest tomorrow. If anything should be unclear – no, I think everything must be clear.

I will be in 303 tomorrow latest 10.10 so please all seven be there! See you!

Six successful teams happy after a really good presentation in Taipei. Congrats to all of you!

Today we had the Kick-Off of the Taipei Workshop  so I want to share the presentation PDF with all of you both in Taipei and Cologne.

For the Taipei students the overview of Criteria might be of relevance so I repeat it here to make it easier to find:

(Future) speculations about food and the city will lead to countless opportunities. In order to narrow down your focus and being able to relate your outcomes toeach other, a set of criteria for your work and our evaluation are given:

  • Connect the city with the rural: people to food and build communities
  • Create awareness, engage, educate
  • Provide data about food/ingredients & farming products; make intelligent use of information technology
  • Use characteristic and specific places in the city
  • Find possible distinction criteria of your product and create a narrative relevant for consumers.

As mentioned, we made up our mind how to stay in touch and keep the dialogue running because even if we kicked off the workshop just a couple of hours ago I think there are already some things to share. So we will try also to write cases (thank you for your excellent contributions up to now!) but also to send you at least one message per day sharing what we are working on.

David will make a short video later but I am just  I saying hello 

to you for now. For tomorrow, connect with us via zoom, just check to install software and connect via https://zoom.us/j/5505005500 and we will meet. We might become better day by day.

After our intense collaboration work today I was suggesting 6 domains and assignments for the Taipei workshop week. I spent this morning to make them easier accessible for the students joining the workshop – as they don´t know about our process and and context. So I hope this reads more easy now, that everybody can imagine possible directions and outcomes for the end of the week – and I am sure you will all find the questions you had (and the stuff you were interested in)…and now we also have a consistency and it is clearer that the outcome will be scenarios based on specific places in the city (or around), on specific (food) products, on a specific us of data and information (technology), and on specific people or communities.

We will do it! And see you on Sunday and stay connected via spaces!


Team 1 Future Consumption
Designing scenarios for a new eating out experience  (food stall / pop-up / restaurant / farm to plate …) in a specific location with a specific type of food.

Context: In the future, the concepts of restaurants will proceed to change. How can we re-think our understanding and concept of “restaurant”? Where – in the neighborhood – would such a place be? What would be the experience, depending on a very specific type of food they are offering? What type of specific (food) products would be available? How will it connect (to) consumer/citizen and farmer? Which information is relevant for the food, for the cultivation process, which communities might emerge? What do people (need to) know about the food they eat?  Are restaurants embedded in (specific) communities?
Team: Maxime,

Team 2 Future Distribution / Retail
Designing scenarios for a specific market / retail (food / agriculture market / pop-up store) experience in a specific location and a specific type of food.

Context: Designing a new market / retail experience to meet emerging customer´s needs.
Where will those places be? What are best places and why? Who will be the customers?  What will be “sold”? How will this match new shopping behaviors you see emerging? Which information is available about the products and how will people use this information, get in touch with it? What is the new experience? How can we address very specific cultural acceptances?
Team: Matea, Florian

Team 3 Future Distribution / Sharing
Designing scenarios for a new food sharing experience in urban space creating communities of practice using hybrid platforms (including three specific places).

Context: How can we learn from cases like food banks all over the world and avoid that food to good to be wasted will reach new people / customers? How can we design this setting to make it accessible? Where and how in Public space can this happen? How will it be organized that people accept it, like it and maybe even build communities around it?
Team: Jeldrik

Team 4 Future Farming / Agro-Communities
Designing scenarios for new types of Agro-Communities in / around Taipei

Context: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as a success model in Taipei and what are opportunities, activities and challenges when implementing new technologies emerge? How to connect citizen and farmer, what is the benefit for them? How can the process of farming be monitored? Which data are / might be available? How are digital media used to strengthen communities? How to build and strengthen communities, which communities emerge? How and what to share and work together?
Team: Clara

Team 6 Future Farming / Relationships
Designing scenarios for interaction with / accessing information about food and ingredients to establish new (food) values and (key stakeholder) relationships.

Context:  What kind of data would be valuable from the different perspectives (consumers, farmers / producers) and how can sharing this data influence their relationship and bring new values to food? According to the different types of data, how can future technologies be applied to carry this information, which interface could this imply and what could this mean for food “packaging”?
Team: Anna Luz,

Team 6 Future Food: New Products
Designing scenarios at a specific place to present and experience relevant information as a “food exhibition” by appropriate means and (hybrid) media 

Context: What are  typical Taiwanese agricultural products (define three!), how can we analyse it and use available data to both inform customers and come to new use of all possible byproducts? How can value be created, how can customers get a new attitude to a product through this knowledge? This includes every possible step in tracing back the growth and processing of the product. Designing the information layers of a food product and emerging opportunities based on this knowledge
Team: Sarah, Helena