Jeldrik Kirschbaum January 28, 2020 11:24 am

FERN

FERN

What it is: Fremantle Environmental Resource Network (FERN) is a non for profit organisation run by volunteers and an elected board. FERN is a community organisation dedicated to providing affordable bi-weekly vegan food options to the community and offering a community space for people to create community. Vegan buffet dinner by donation are offered two nights a week, with volunteers welcome to help with dinner preparation. There are often impromptu music jams after eating. FERN’s main source of revenue is via donation income from these bi-weekly dinners.

Where it is: Perth, Australia

Why it is relevant: The concept of a community place and kitchen that runs itself through the community and donations was the first step on how to merge our ideas. The fact that places like these already exist, work out and save a lot of leftovers while creating a social space in the middle of a city built the foundation for Echt Essbar.

URL: http://fern.org.au/

Cases 41 australia 1 community 6 communitykitchen 2 fern 1 non profit 1 urban gardening 2 vegan 1 volunteer 2

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David Martens January 27, 2020 4:25 pm

Meeting 28/01

Hi everyone, I have tweaked the tutoring schedule as we have to be done before 13:00. So it changed into 20 minute slots again. Check the tutoring times here to see the changed schedule, or add your name to an empty slot. See you tomorrow!

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Kira Eßer January 25, 2020 5:09 pm *

Food bank | Die Tafel | community kitchen

Foodbank

What it is: Foodbank–Established in 2010 by New Taipei-based Chinese Christian Relief Association (CCRA), 1919 is one of the biggest organizations of its kind in Taiwan. It supplies food to nearly 200 churches working to support about 4,500 disadvantaged youths. The food bank has also negotiated daily donation agreements between 54 of the churches and 84 nearby stores owned by Carrefour, PX Mart and RT-Mart.

To extend the lifespan of the food it receives, 1919 operates a kitchen facility in central Taiwan’s Taichung City. The site creates nutritious sauces for rice and noodles using items like carrots, potatoes, pork and canned tomatoes. The finished products are stored in freezers until they can be dispatched to underprivileged families. According to CCRA, the central kitchen produced about 15 tons of food in 2018.

Where it is:Taichung / Taiwan City

Why it is relevant: This system supports the food rescue from unwanted food, similar to what we do in our concept, except that in our case we rescue deliberately sorted out food and make it available for consumption.

URL: https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=12&post=157726&unitname=Society-Taiwan-Review&postname=Waste-Not

Community kitchen

What it is: Public market | community kitchen–The Victoria Public Market at the Hudson is a vibrant local food hub that aims to promote increased knowledge and use of and locally grown and produced food and food products. The centerpiece of the Market is the Community Kitchen, a place for vendor product preparation, food and cooking demonstrations, lectures and seminars, private and public courses in cooking and sustainable living, and family get-togethers. The Community Kitchen is a VIHA-approved, fully equipped commercial kitchen with rental costs that allow everyone to benefit from this amazing community asset. Events can range from a get together with friends, to making 20 quarts of tomato sauce, to teaching a public workshop or charging admission for a private class; so please jump in, host or suggest an event, give feedback, participate, and become a part of this community.

Where it is: Germany-organisation

Why it is relevant: The idea of cooking surplus food together in a community kitchen and forming a community out of it is a very interesting and important aspect. In our case, we have focused on the further consumption of the surplus food and have incorporated this into our concept.

URL: https://victoriapublicmarket.com/opportunities/community-kitchen/

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Clara Schmeinck January 24, 2020 5:42 pm *

Jun’ya Ishigami’s Forest kindergarden in Shandong

What it is: The project intends to create architecture to connect children with their surrounding natural environment and to reflect perspectives from their world. Most of the kindergarten is designed at children’s scale so every spaces except for the classroom can only be used by children.

Where it is:

Countryside of Shandong, China

Why it is relevant:

This architecture example showcases how important it is to reconnect children starting from a young age back with nature.

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Clara Schmeinck January 24, 2020 5:33 pm *

Urban Garden in Taipeh City

What it is:

While exploring Taipeh Matea came across this Urban Garden near the Taipei 101 building.

The day later Anna and I went there and asked the 3 gardeners who were there a couple of questions. They explained to us that the garden is funded by the city and everybody who wants to plant something is allowed to do so. They were really proud of what they have achieved with their garden.

Where it is:

At Hulin Street Lane 120 and Songxin Street in Taipeh’s City Center

Why it is relevant:

Case example of what urban gardening looks like in Taiwan and how it can work.

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Clara Schmeinck January 24, 2020 5:07 pm *

VHS-Biogarten Turner Hof in Chorweiler

What it is:

Two weeks ago I visited the VHS-Biogarten Turner Hof in Cologne and talked to one of their oldest member Birgit Scherer. She has been a member for over 25 years and shared her knowledge about gardening in the Cologne area, Permaculture and community based gardening with me.

The VHS-Biogarten has it’s on compost system, field of fruits trees, shelter and apiculture.

Where it is:

Chorweiler, Cologne

https://biogarten-thurnerhof.de

Why it is relevant:

The Urban Garden can act as an example how Urban Gardens can be a success model in large cities like Cologne. The most active members have a lot of knowledge of the local circumstances when trying to grow food (soil, water quality, native plant species e.g.). They can be contacted when there are questions that acquire gardening expert knowledge.

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Philipp Heidkamp January 24, 2020 9:34 am

Feedback today

Good morning, as promised I went through all your texts in the spreadsheet and gave comments – including a general comment in the first row I added. Some fields are marked red where heavy rework has to be done (or nothing is there). Please take all the comments in consideration and use it to create your Posters for next Tuesday. All of you should have the posters, with the updated text and the system map and user story (sometimes additional use cases / wireframes). Please take into consideration that it does not make sense to write something that you did not address in your work, I gave quite a few comments about too general statements. Hop that helps now…looking forward to see the results next TUE!

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Matea Varvodic January 22, 2020 5:29 pm *

Future transportation in cities: Pneumatic tubes and hyperloop technology

What it is: an environmental friendly way of transportation by using air pressure and magnetic power

Where it is: Pneumatic system: used in bigger companies, hyperloop: still does not exist

Why it is relevant:´The system of pneumatic transportation is more than 100 years old, but due to the digitalization and new technologies, it is offering a new variety of opportunities. In addition, this kind of transportation saves ressources by being environmental friendly and sustainable.
The most popular one may be founder Elon Musk’s Hyperloop high speed train that uses this exact pneumatic technology by additionally using magnetic power to support the transportation process and to guarantee a faster transportation. But as the hyperloop concentrates to transport persons rather than food,
I contacted the worlds biggest company for pneumatic tube systems, aerocom, to check if this system is suitable for food transportation inside a 50km radius of CGN.

Information they could give me were that the capsules of the pneumatic tube system can transport about max 28 kg just by using air pressure. Complex systems allow that a capsule gets from a) to b) as the system has the opportunity to switch the capsule to different tubes. Therefore, even complex transport routes can be mastered. On each capsule, a micro chip is installed that has all information about the capsule: where it has to go, where it exactly is etc. Here you can find some helpful animations that explain the process of tube switching and capsules.
Some other helpful videos about the pneumatic delivery system:
URL: hyperloop explanied, Aerocom Rohrpost

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Matea Varvodic January 22, 2020 5:04 pm *

Undergroundfridge keeps food cool by being environmental friendly!

What it is: An environmental friendly option to keep food and beverages cold by placing the fridge under the ground.

Where it is: Can be placed in almost every ground structure (sand, soil …)

Why it is relevant: The hundreds of years old concept of an underground fridge is celebrating its revival!

A dutch designer developed a spherical fridge that should be placed about 1m under the ground to keep food and beverages cold by letting fresh air in and warm air out. Additionally, a small ventilation system can be installed that guarantees that the temperature is constant troughout the different seasons.

Maybe not an alternative for small families or single persons without gardens, but definitley useful for restaurants or foodsharing/ the public.

URL: See more here.

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David Martens January 22, 2020 2:15 pm

Extra Tutoring 23/01

Hi everyone

As prof. Heidkamp mentioned I’ll be available between 10:00 and 13:00 in R228, pick a slot in the tutoring spreadsheet.

I’ve been updated about your progress and would be there to look over your work and give extra input. And see how to get ready for the final presentation. I’d be there to help!

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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

Philipp Heidkamp September 27, 2019 7:17 pm *

Markéta Dolejšová

Marketa is a design researcher with background in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Food Studies. Her work combines the methods and techniques of Research through Design (RtD) with ethnography to investigate the growing role of digital and bio-technologies in everyday human-food practices. Her aim with this work is to generate insights into the existing food-tech trends and issues, and gather ideas for preferable food futures. I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, and a research fellow in New Media Studies at the Charles University (Czech Republic). In 2018, I completed my doctorate in Interactive Media Design at the National University of Singapore, with a dissertation project Edible Speculations: Designing for Human-Food Interaction.

Travel information Taipei

Please make up your mind in case you want to join the Taipei trip,

if you can dedicate enough time and energy to the overall project and
if are ok with the hostel and the mixed rooms (additional nights on your own or at friends of KISD in Taipei, maybe)
if you would be ok in saying a definitive and binding “YES” in case you will be part of the Taipei trip
if you would be financially able to buy the ticket now, in the next days in order to make it happen (think of my offer, anyway)

I am confident however we have to choose the students going we will have a good team and process and collaboration in general.

Slight change in the process: please reply to this post (comment) latest by tomorrow noon if you want to participate in the Taipei trip. Thank you.

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Philipp Heidkamp September 24, 2019 5:45 pm

Cities and Circular Economy for Food (by Ellen MacArthur Foundation)

Following the publication of the Cities and Circular Economy for Food report at the World Economic Forum in Davos (January 2019), the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched the Food initiative. Over the next three years, we will bring together key actors to stimulate a global shift towards a regenerative food system based on the principles of a circular economy.

The initiative will engage 20+ cities on a journey to a circular economy for food with London, New York, and São Paulo as Flagship Cities. The Participant Cities – Almere, Barcelona, Lisbon, Milan, Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sevilla, Toronto, and Torres Vedras (with more to be announced) will further accelerate implementation efforts. Municipalities, local and global businesses, and resource managers will work together in new ways to drive real systemic change.

The Food initiative will activate unprecedented collaboration to mobilise the vision laid out in the Cities and Circular Economy for Food report. Food brands, producers, retailers, governments, innovators, waste managers, and other food players are all working towards three main ambitions based on circular economy thinking.

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Philipp Heidkamp September 24, 2019 12:06 pm *

Travel information Taipei

Before the project is starting, we have to jump right in the middle – to our trip to Taipei. For those of you that want to join the trip to Taipei I can share the following very important information today:

I pre-booked 2 rooms in the hostel We Come (our students stayed there 2 years ago and it is really very good and excellent location). At the moment I have 2 beds in a male room and 4 beds in a mixed room, as all female rooms are already booked. I can also try and book one complete 8 person room, then you have no other people with you in the room…Make up your mind. Check-In will be Sunday Nov16, Checkout Saturday Nov 23.

In addition, I was looking for flights. I found China Eastern flights with reasonable rates and good connection.

You are free to look for other / better options. The earlier we decide (best: now, next week…), the better for you.

In terms on financial support I received some money from TH Köln (180 Euro / Person). The flights are currently cheap (380 Euro / Person). I would cover the hotel from my money, so you need to contribute roundabout 200 Euro. Living in Taipei itself is for sure cheaper than in Cologne.

Please make up your mind until our meeting this Thursday – if you want to travel and if you decide now.

See you on Thursday!

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FERN

Meeting 28/01

Food bank | Die Tafel | community kitchen

Urban Garden in Taipeh City

VHS-Biogarten Turner Hof in Chorweiler

Feedback today

Future transportation in cities: Pneumatic tubes and hyperloop technology

Undergroundfridge keeps food cool by being environmental friendly!

Extra Tutoring 23/01

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Food bank | Die Tafel | community kitchen

Jun’ya Ishigami’s Forest kindergarden in Shandong

Urban Garden in Taipeh City

VHS-Biogarten Turner Hof in Chorweiler

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Future transportation in cities: Pneumatic tubes and hyperloop technology

Undergroundfridge keeps food cool by being environmental friendly!

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