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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]

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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]