Pictures Thursday Presentation

Here you find the pictures of the presentation that I, and the ones who used my camera, took. I didn’t set the shutter speed right it seemed, so some movements are blurred. Apologies for that! There will be more pictures available on the KISDphoto page soon from someone else. (under ‘Services’ at the top)

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum February 6, 2020 4:59 pm

Cooking tonight!

Hey guys,

for everyone who’s interested: we’ll do a cooking and chill session in the food lab at 6pm tonight!

Please comment if you’re in so we know how much to buy!

Cheers, see you tonight!

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Philipp Heidkamp February 5, 2020 8:57 pm

Tomorrow…

…David and I will be around at and it would be very good to have you there as well. The last day(s) are the finish…the most efficient days, so use the energy…

See you tomorrow!

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Kira Eßer February 5, 2020 1:45 pm

A5 factsheet

I printed the factsheet in 120gr in the C-lab, maybe it’s interesting for the other groups. 🙂

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Philipp Heidkamp February 4, 2020 4:38 pm

Presentation time reduced, THU and beyond

The Friday AG just informed all presenting groups that the time is limited to 20 minutes per group. This is extremely short! So maybe we open our doors for interested students after the presentation for another 30mins in the afternoon before you rebuild everything in room 240?

We will have a feedback meeting on TUE 11 at 3PM for about 1.5 hrs. We will critically reflect and talk about the project, the process, our outcome, about next steps. And the documentation.

Once you finished the documentation we will have a final meeting – most likely at the very end of March. Long way to go – but just to give you a perspective.

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María Becerra Martínez February 4, 2020 3:51 pm

Final poster

Sorry for not showing up at the meeting tomorrow morning, I was finishing general details. Here is my poster both sides, hope everything is ok with them. Poster front Poster back

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Philipp Heidkamp February 3, 2020 2:18 pm

Final days and steps

To do for Tuesday / Wednesday

Today: Update and fix your user stories. Remember – the user story has the purpose to communicate a dedicated “use” (and user experience) of your concept, the system and products you designed. No single step in the user story should be a commonplace, always tell what is special and important was the user experiences your concept and design.

Think of the requirement to make your concept and food “tangible”.

Tuesday: All bring your 2 posters (or more if you have more, the second poster shows additional material to make your concepts accessible) as paper printout, A3 or a stitched together A1 based on A3 to get a sense of the proportions. If you are a team, it is ok when only one of you joins the meeting, the other(s) can proceed working.

You have to print out your two posters in the CLAB that Tuesday in the afternoon before it closes for the KISD talk. So start printing around 3.3o latest

Look at your small A5 cards and look especially at the data. You remember, that one of the criteria of your work was and is ” to provide (useful, necessary, feasible and digestible) data and information about food/ingredients and farming products, make intelligent use of information and information technology”. So now as your idea of the concepts are fixed (due to time), please once again make up your mind and let us know which data is used and necessary to make your idea working – and which data is created for your concept and through its use. I have the feeling that you still take too much to be obvious…but it isn´t. mention it! Detailed, so if you write “Crop data of farmers” let us know which, if you write “Season products in Germany” write what that means etc.

All have your exhibition element built up and fixed so that we can arrange all of the single elements in space.

All have your artefacts and/or screens/digital prototypes ready to show and share.

What all of you are sharing are prototypes. Prototypes are used in the iterations of a design process to articulate assumptions or insights and to inform the design process and support reflection and critical inquiry. They are not used to sell your product. In general, be very aware if your prototypes and visualisations are designed for a schematic understanding (like a wireframe or function drawing etc.) or if it is a prototyping to be looked at formal questions (formal design parameters like colors, forms, proportions, sizes, movements, dialogues). This is a big difference, I gave comments on that to all of you today. All the works should come up with a design articulation / artefact / prototype that shows your ability to work with basic formal design parameters (like mentioned above).

Wednesday: 3 PM all have their exhibition contributions ready and we can all together walk around and have a short presentation of each group of 3-5 minutes (share the core ideas of your concept, guide us through your poster, share what is the most important aspect in your concept etc. to start a dialogue and q&a with your audience.

We are in the final phase and please dedicate all possible time now to make things happen! If there is anything unclear, let me know, if you need more feedback and help I am also around tomorrow afternoon!

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Philipp Heidkamp February 2, 2020 8:09 pm

Monday

We will meet around 10am in R240. I kindly ask all of you to get your (needed) part(s) of the exhibition system in the basement (R58) and bring it to 240 so that we can see how exactly the individual elements will look like and how they can be put together to get a coherent spatial experience and maybe create connections. Pleae also all bring your posters in 2 A3 printouts (if necessary each side in 2 A3 landscape so that things are better readable). We will fix the post and give last feedback to the user stories, I think there needs to be done some work…

I have a meeting early outside of KISD and hope to be there by 10, but sou should all be there! See you!

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David Martens February 2, 2020 6:57 pm *

Updated Poster Template + Factsheet

Find the folders here. So I’ve been putting your content into the new poster template and the A5 factsheet. Now, I gave myself quite a challenge to try and put it in for you, aiming to maintain a unified form/feeling. 😉 Along the way, I have played around with your text, got out typo’s and changed things when I thought it didn’t make too much sense. I will give the template back to you now and you can add in your final user story and tweak the text accordingly. Look at the poster from the others and try to write some more if you are lacking text (Yasmine) and try to reduce when you have too much (Matea). For Maxime and Samia, I couldn’t get your body text in because it is vectorized, so please have a look and change that. For some, writing a precise and easy to read text is challenging, but words are important. Reread it a few times and ask peers whether what you have written makes sense! I don’t want any typo’s in the final presentation. 😀

The backside of the Poster, or your second poster, can be used freely with imagery and system map if you decide to show that.

For the factsheets, find yours in the template folder and tweak it if you want to.

Kalia, I didn’t make your one as you didn’t post any poster but you can do that yourself when adding an extra page in Indesign, it gives you the ‘A-Master’ that you can access by clicking on the objects while holding shift and command.

Tomorrow, we can print the posters out in A3 to test it. The final posters can be printed on Tuesday on prof. Heidkamp’s budget! But only if they’re ready on Tuesday.

A domani!

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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

Kalia Ruiz January 31, 2020 3:30 pm *

Yatai Cart

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/

Cases 41 Research 30 business 1 coffee 3 design 1 diy 1 food 3 food stalls 1 foodtruck 1 function 1 intervention 1 local 1 low-cost 1 manufacture 1 manufacturing cost 1 movable 1 neglected spaces 1 opportunities 1 portable design 1 public spaces 1 spaces 1 stalls 1 yatai 1

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Kalia Ruiz January 30, 2020 6:50 pm *

La Peruana Coffee

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

Cases 41 Experts 11 Research 30 agriculture 4 coffee 3 compost 3 compostable 1 distribution 1 edible 1 environment 1 food cycles 1 food industry 2 food waste 2 material 1 packaging 1 production 2 reuse 1 sustainable 1 waste 3

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Kalia Ruiz January 30, 2020 6:23 pm *

PermaFungi

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.

Site: https://www.permafungi.be/

Cases 41 Experts 11 Research 30 agriculture 4 circular economy 4 cities 3 coffee 3 collaboration 1 compost 3 consumption 1 contribution 1 cooperative 1 cultivation. 1 disadvantaged 1 food 3 food industry 2 fungi 1 industrialization 1 industry 1 job opportunities 1 Mushrooms 1 network 1 organic 3 organic waste 1 people 1 production 2 recycle 1 response 1 urban 3 user 1 waste 3

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Kira Eßer December 15, 2019 11:00 am

Just found that

https://mobil.stern.de/digital/technik/kuenstliche-algenbaeume-sollen-100-mal-so-viel-sauerstoff-wie-ein-echter-baum-produzieren-9047286.html
here is an article about agriculture in the future with another part of nature. Maybe that could be inspiring some of us. 😊

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David Martens December 12, 2019 12:57 pm *

Design Research Methods – Interviewing Techniques

Hi everyone, I have uploaded the recordings in this Drive folder, if you’d like to listen again to the discussion. (Sorry Matea, something went wrong with your recording but I’m sure you have good notes 😉 ) Some are still uploading but they should all be there soon.

Concerning Design Research Methods.. Prof. Heidkamp already mentioned to some of the groups that the use of Cultural Probes, or Design Probes, could be an appropriate method to get visual and valuable information from your target group. Probing is a method mainly used in Human-Computer Interaction and User-Centred Design. This paper of my former teacher at Aalto, Tuuli Mattelmäki who wrote her doctoral thesis on Design Probes, gives a good overview of what it is, critically reflects how it is a useful method, and some further tips and tricks when applying it to your own work. There are no concrete pragmatic guides on how to do it, as you’ll need to figure out yourself how this method could inform and help your project. Because again, these are tools, so treat them loosely.

About interviewing techniques… Interviewing a person of interest might seem evident but as all of you know, to get interesting answers you need to ask the right questions. How to prepare an interview? Have it structured? Or semi-structured? Open? Focused? Should I bring artefacts? Maps? Models? Go for a walk? Meet in an office? Go for a coffee? Should I record it? Transcribe it? Take notes? Do I need to ask for consent?
Depending on what you want to find out and who you are speaking to, there are different ways to prepare or not prepare 😉 There are different ways of framing your questions depending on what you want to find out.

I am not an expert on this, but I’d be happy to look over your research/interview strategy and assist you in fine-tuning it. Therefore, I suggest an open meeting Monday (16/12) afternoon from 13h-15h for the ones interested, in which I will be in room 228 to listen and help out. And share some examples. But then, I would like you to already prepare and show me what you want to find out, who you will address, and how you want to go about it.

For the ones interested in learning about and using Design Probes, we can also use Monday afternoon to cover that. If Monday seems an inconvenient time, I can also offer extra time Tuesday afternoon.

One final wish concerning your research: Ask each other who you will contact and interview, and team up/share your information. If there is a shared expert or stakeholder, for example, Neuland, go to the interview or meeting with a member of each interested team. It would be a pity if those organisations/people would be contacted separately. So what do you have in common? Take ownership of the room!

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Sarah Pearson December 3, 2019 11:23 am *

Tea in Taiwan

Tea Farming: I travelled to Hualien County in the South East side of Taiwan to a small farming community called Wuhe, to investigate an area where they have grown tea for decades. Usually, tea is grown in mountainous and high-altitude climates. However, Wuhe is located in a lower mountain region.

There I talked with a lady who explained to me the 25 varieties of tea they grow. The species can be identified through the shapes of their leaves.

Why is this Fascinating?

What is the cultural significance of food? What is Germany’s equivalent to tea/rice in Taiwan?

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Sarah Pearson December 2, 2019 5:51 pm *

Organic Farming

Food – Where does it come from?

I focused on specific food items by identifying the production and original source of the food. For example, Taiwan’s largest farmed vegetables, grains and fruits, such as pineapple, rice, cocoa, tea and sugar cane. I reached out to a few farms, some which I was not able to visit. For example, in Pingtung, the leading city in Taiwan for agricultural products, there is an organic farm, which supports a sustainable system for farming food. They also teach young people organic agricultural methods and would be pleased to contact us via skype if anyone would be interested to learn more.

Website: Pingtung Chongwen Junior High School

http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2016/gsh8035/102.htm

Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/內埔祥園有機生態農場-169073766487166/?eid=ARC2mYFoMSU00-n1OJdvDwqMc07uldEPjcd2yPi92b84hwi7MInUmMttTXiBKJt5DEH_RvyT5iiB_0m-&fref=tag

I noticed from talking to people living in Taipei, that they felt detached from their food. They are unaware of the process which their food has taken to become available to their plates.

How can we reconnect people with food, and find value in high-quality organically farmed agricultural products?

Why is important to gain insight into agricultural methods?

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum December 2, 2019 4:47 pm

second week in Taiwan

In the second week I travelled to the east coast attempting a few farms and food markets/restaurants trying to ask questions about their food waste and will to share. As most people didn’t really speak english it was quite hard to find answers but i found a few responses quite helpful.
Mainly there is a will to donate leftovers. So some of the farms/community gardens told me, that, even though they can’t sell their products that are unwanted by the markets, they give them away to relatives and friends for private use. They are afraid that if they would just donate those fruits and vegetables, less people would buy their products and get more of the free food. Same for restaurants. On top they are also afraid of legal issues as they don’t have any governmental regulations about the responsibilities. So there would need to be a change of laws or at least a contract defining exact terms of trade, as those people said. Also food sharing, in terms of leftover contribution in restaurants, is quite new to Taiwan so I hit on a lot of scepticism.

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Anna Luz Joséphine Pueyo Kirwan December 1, 2019 11:19 pm

InVisible Cities

What it is :

IVC – InVisibleCities is an open community advocating urban
research and innovation. Members from different professions,
cities and regions share the same enthusiasm on cities and
exchange creative ideas on urban living.

By working collaboratively we aim to tackle with city’s complex issues, and open up the conversation for the public. With new tools in hands, we believe that cities are to be seen differently, in the way that is more sophisticated, intriguing, and humane. It is in cities that we learn, we engage, and we innovate.

Where it is :

International

Why it is relevant :

Data visualisations can be very useful to convey information and this collective has a very creative way to do that.

The focus on Taiwanese cities like Taitung and Taipei can provide us precious resources for our research and open this new possibility of visualisation.

https://ivc.city/project

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Anna Luz Joséphine Pueyo Kirwan December 1, 2019 11:12 pm *

Ann Chung’s independent rice flour factory

What it is:

In Taoyuan, we visited Ann, a middle-aged Taiwanese woman who told us about her projects in her four year-old rice transformation factory. The small factory is equipped with a high-tech milling machine coming from Japan, the secret of Ann and the biggest investment of her business.

Through processing rice into flour and derived products as pre-mixes, she collaborates with local farmers (providing them packaging and private labelling) and aims to educate Taiwanese people about the value of the rice culture, that got forgotten with the invasion of the wheat-based western culture. Her initiative started when she found out that her kids were reacting to gluten. Through rice processing, she wants to show how versatile and healthy rice-based baking can be and she already published a book of recipes, is currently giving cooking lessons and communicates regularly through her website.

Her process is very labor-intensive because everything is packaged manually but she employs local mothers and offers them working times suiting their need to go home to their children.

In the future, Ann plans to become a famous You Tube chef and to open her own bakery in the area, as well as maybe manufacturing frozen food to reach an other market. In the meantime, Ann sells all of her produce on her website because she doesn’t want to collaborate with supermarkets and their industrial mode. She believes that a shopfront is not necessarily needed anymore, also because of the expense that it represents for small businesses.

Ann is confident and believes that she should be honest with the customer to make them trust her more. She decided to stay in the city for convenience with her kids and because she doesn’t want to destroy farm land.

Where it is:

Taoyuan, Taiwan

Why it is relevant:

This case shows how the middle man, the processor of the food can have a double impact on the food chain because it connects with the consumer to educate and inspire as well as opening the opportunity for the farmers to choose healthier ways of producing and to increase the biodiversity thanks to a curated product range.