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/

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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

David Martens November 11, 2019 12:57 pm

Meeting Tomorrow 12/11

In the last post, I mentioned that tomorrow’s meeting will be in the afternoon. To correct that, 14:00 is the time when prof. Heidkamp is joining us. Nonetheless, we are meeting anyway at 10:00 to already discuss how we will organise ourselves for the workshop and connect the questions that will be researched by the front in Cologne and the front in Taiwan. This way, we can get the most out of the full Taiwan-excursion. Enjoy Carnaval, I’m sure you’ll be there tomorrow bright and shiny!

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David Martens November 8, 2019 5:21 pm *

Next Meeting on Tuesday at 14:00

The meeting time for Tuesday (12/11) has shifted from 09:00 in the morning to 14:00 – 17:00 in the afternoon. This is an important meeting as it will define the direction of the workshop in Taipei, as well as further research to be conducted there. Have a good weekend and see you in room 303!

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Philipp Heidkamp November 7, 2019 8:15 am *

Draft Workshop Taipei

Please have alook at this workshop draft for the Taipei week. It is relevant for all of us:

For the six students leaving as we will have six teams in Taipei and each of the KISDstudents will be in one of the teams supporting the process, sharing insights we achieved – and nudging the team in a direction that is of help for our overall project goal (and maybe each KISD teammmebers individual goal and project). So it might make sense to take this into consideration when working on your topics.

For the seven students staying in Cologne it is relevant as you will be ably to benefit from the work done in Taiwan – and help through contributing with existing research and preparation you have done up to now. You will recognize possible connections I built to the questions you developed (I hope).

So this is a part of the draft I am currently developing with David:

DRAFT SCID-KISD workshop Future Cities: Food

< Introduction>

In the workshop, you will build six teams working on three main topics:

Designing a new restaurant experience in Taipei (CONSUME)
Where would such a restaurant be? What type of specific products would be available? How will it connect to citizen and farmer? Which information is relevant for the food, for the cultivation process, which communities might emerge? Which stakeholders are involved?

Street stall / pop-up
Restaurant / farm to plate

2. Designing a new market / retail experience to meet emerging customer´s needs (DISTRIBUTE)
Where will it be? What are best places and why? What will be sold? How ill this match new shopping behaviors you see emerging? How do they deal with waste? What will be sold? Which information is available about the products and how will people use this information, get in touch with it? What is the new experience? Which stakeholders are involved?

Food market experience
Pop-up store

3. Designing a concept for new farming activities for emerging urban farming activities (PRODUCE)
How to connect citizen and farmer, what is the benefit for them? Which stakeholders are involved? How can food be monitored? How to build and strengthen communities, which communities emerge? How and what to share and work together?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) outside of Taipei
Urban Farming in a specific location in Taipei

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David Martens November 6, 2019 2:02 pm *

Recap 05/11

After yesterday’s meeting, hearing the input of your presentations, we suggest to frame the work for the project by the following criteria:

– Focus on veggies (fruits, vegetables, crops etc.) as this allows the biggest flexibility in involvement and scalability

– Look at Community Supported Agriculture – how can this support (or plug into) the individual projects?

– Decrease the middle-men in the supply chain

– Connect/relate people to food and build communities

– Create awareness of food/ingredient quality

– Provide (useful, necessary, feasible and digestible) data and information about food/ingredients and farming products

– Work towards solutions that work in a respectful (check stakeholders!) and scalable (other places, global demand) way

– Searching alternatives for mass-production and industrial food production

– Investigate opportunities for Restaurant / Street stall / Pop-up Food Place as a touchpoint where experiences are created

– Trying to relate production to consumption

– Think of specific places in the city (abandoned spaces, green rooftops, (pop-up) restaurants, markets… to make things tangible

– Choose farming products which allow enough opportunity for intelligent disposition and re-use (or at least check if there are any) e.g. rice, coffee etc.

– … (more to come)

We hope that helps to frame your approach to finding a topic. And again the advice – be as specific as you can and work with constraints. You will see this again in the next steps when we discuss the increased level of precision of the question-suggestions.

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We will meet tomorrow at 10:00-11:00 and Friday at 11:30-13:00 in our room 303. During those meetings, we will continue fine-tuning the questions, discuss possibilities for the workshop in Taipei and briefly talk about what you expect or envision towards the outcome, considering our capabilities as designers.

Also, tomorrow for lunch, we will eat together in the Foodlab. If you are keen to join, please bring some cash with you so we can split the bills easily.

Thus for you, there are two things between now and the meeting on Friday:

Get back into your questions, rewrite, reshape, rephrase, adjust, … Respond to the feedback and play with them, try to add/delete elements to be more specific. What urban context do you want to work in? Is there a specific medium you want to include in your question? …
Please post the ‘most interesting’ cases on spaces with the right tags, possibly following the above-mentioned criteria. Thanks!

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Philipp Heidkamp November 4, 2019 2:44 pm

Update questions / meeting tomorrow

I went through the questions of the 8 people submitting them by now. Please – ALL should submit their questions! We will discuss them tomorrow, and still some are very open and we need to find a stronger connections to our initial starting point(s) (tomorrow).

Tomorrow we will also go through your investigations of the 3 phases and the respective cases you found. I am really keen to see what you found out!

As we will have a short-noticed Prof-meeting tomorrow from 9-11 please meet anyway at 10 (as David will be there) and if you have time to extend the meeting max to 1400 it would be great. I will be there!

See you tomorrow!

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Philipp Heidkamp November 2, 2019 1:44 pm

Questions and greetings

Dear all, good to see all your questions emerging and I am looking so much forward to discuss them with you next Tuesday morning. Being here in Bogota and Medellin, I will for sure bring in some relevant contributions that might help us to focus. Please remember that we are having the framing of digitalisation that we want to address as well – to encourage thinking about alternative uses of data. I also received a very interesting not of a colleague, John Thackara, about an urban-rural exhibition he just opened last week in Shanghai. Projects like Alibaba live streaming are of interest to connect farmers…we will talk when I am back. Still need the time to go through all your questions!

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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 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 5:07 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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Philipp Heidkamp September 26, 2019 2:38 pm

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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FERN

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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!

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Recap 05/11

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Meeting 29/10

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