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Diana Samano Ramos January 30, 2020 12:14 am

Slow food Foundation /The Ark os taste

What it is: Slow Food Foundation support projects which involve producers and local communities growing biodiversity and traditional food. Some of the projects are:

The Ark of Taste identifies and catalogues quality food products at risk of extinction. Today products on board number more than 5,000 from over 120 countries.

The Slow Presidia: The Presidia sustain quality production at risk of extinction, protect unique regions and ecosystems, recover traditional processing methods, safeguard native breeds and local plant varieties

Where it is: around 100 years

Why is relevant: The Foundation’s projects are tools to promote a model of agriculture that is based on local biodiversity and respect for the land and the local culture, is in harmony with the environment and aims to provide food sovereignty and access to good, clean and fair food for all communities.

URL: https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/

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Sarah-Yasmine Aoufi January 29, 2020 10:35 pm

80/20 Poster

I’m still working on the majority, but that is the current version.

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María Becerra Martínez January 29, 2020 5:00 pm

Tri-cycle poster

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Matea Varvodic January 29, 2020 8:46 am *

Hyperfood plakat

As discussed, here is my poster: plakat_Hyperfood. The back ist just a concept, I have to rearrange everything, but just for the fist hand …

WHAT: The Hyperfood is an approach to redesign the traditional distribution system for local and seasonal food by implementing it into existing infrastructure and using environmentally friendly technologies. Local farms are connected through an underground tube system that transports capsules with pneumatic power to pick up points that keep food cold with a minimum use of energy due to the fact that they are placed underground. To be easily accessible and so that several people can benefit from the system pick up points are placed in the most condensed and easy reachable parts of the city.

WHY: Todays food distribution system does not work on his highest efficiency level due to many touchpoints between producer and consumer as packaging, logistics, transportation and similar. Additionally, the volume of traffic increases especially in densely populated parts of the cities and traffic jams occur due to freight transportation. Consequently, emissions are increasing. As cities have to deal with less infrastructure in the future and the significance of technologies and digitalization is still rising, a new way of transportation is necessary.

HOW: My future approach of transportation tries to tackle these obstacles by implementing an underground transportation system into CGN’s existing infrastructure as unused tunnels from the roman empire or KVB and used metro tunnels. Since the capsules in which the food is transported have a capacity of 6kg and thus a diameter of about 30cm, the transport system is place-saving and can be placed in tunnels, even in those that are still in use. The capsules are transported from the farms to the pick-up points with the use of air pressure that pushes the capsules trough the underground tube system. Hubs between the tubes and the microchip, which is implemented in each capsule and that stores the target location of the capsule enable the capsule to reach the desired destination. The whole food ordering process is managed through a digital platform where farmers can insert their daily offers and consumers can place their appropriate orders, track their order, see recipes corresponding to the farmers offers, book a farm visit, rate farms and the food and pay digital.

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Anna Luz Joséphine Pueyo Kirwan January 29, 2020 5:27 am

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Kira Eßer January 28, 2020 9:44 pm

Die Tafel

Die Tafel

What it is: Die Tafel–The charitable boards create a balance: they collect surplus, qualitatively perfect food and distribute it to socially and economically disadvantaged people. With their fast and unbureaucratic help, the Tafeln alleviate the consequences of poverty in a rich society – and stand for solidarity and humanity.

Where it is: Germany-organisation

Why it is relevant: The table also works with surplus food that is still of high quality and edible. However, in this case, support is given to the needy who often cannot afford the weekly shopping for their family.

URL: https://www.tafel.de/

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David Martens January 28, 2020 6:24 pm

Poster and Meeting on Monday 03/02

Hey guys

Check out the new poster here. The pdf also has an A5 factsheet where we put the keywords, stakeholders etc. which will go below the poster. Now I am going to take the content of the poster you will post today, and put it into the new template. And then give the poster back to you if you want to change anything. We have decided to give the user story appropriate space, but it should make ideal use of these dimensions:

380mm by 540mm or 38cm by 54cm

That’s the amount of space you get on your poster for your user story. Please have your final one ready by Wednesday evening 29/01 So I can put them in the new poster on Thursday. (As you notice, quite some attention now is going to your question and text How/What/Why, so it might be worth spending some extra time on that!)

On Monday 03/02 prof. HK and I want to meet you in R240 at 10:00, with the exact built-up exhibition pieces you are using. Every student can get the key for room 058, so organize yourself and get your exh. systems at 09:00. We can then shuffle the pieces around and make good use of the space (and clean it up when necessary).

Let’s get readyyyyy! I have asked for the foodlab on Thursday for a final dinner together, after a hopefully successful presentation 😉

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum January 28, 2020 11:31 am

The Good Food

The Good Food

What it is: The Good Food sells products of all kinds that would otherwise have been destroyed as waste. The owner (Nicole) goes into fields after they have been harvested and collects the vegetables left behind. Some of them are deemed too big, some too small, some just too ugly to sell. In her shop, the organic food then becomes accessible to everyone using a “pay what you think” system. Buyers can also find non-perishable products from big manufacturers which have passed their sell-by dates.

Where it is: Köln-Ehrenfeld

Why it is relevant: We planned a cooperation with The Good Food concerning the transportation of the vegetables from the farmer to the shops. The shared costs of renting a van, pay for petrol or buying a new vehicle would lower the costs on both sides, make the process easier, faster and products cheaper for the consumer.

URL: https://www.the-good-food.de/

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum January 28, 2020 11:27 am

NeuLand

NeuLand

What it is: NeuLand is an urban community garden that is using an uncultivated area by planting diverse vegetables, fruits and other plants in transportable boxes. They grow in transportable boxes, because the soil is contaminated and therefore unusable for gardening and also their time is limited, as there are probably some plans coming up in the next years for construction concepts from Stadt Köln.

Where it is: Bayenthal, Köln

Why it is relevant: The area they use fits perfectly for putting our concept of Echt Essbar into place. As the area they use is the city’s property and they don’t mind sharing a small part of the space, it gives Echt Essbar a relaxed and natural environment to settle in. Also Neuland profits from a cooperation, since they might get more attention for their own projects.

URL: http://www.neuland-koeln.de/

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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 November 4, 2019 10:10 pm

Atlas of Urban Expansion: Taipei

In the Atlas of Urban Expansion you can find relevant and interesting information about the development and character of Taipei…

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Sarah Pearson November 4, 2019 9:40 pm *

Food Up-cycling

Finally…

I have found some interesting material on existing products, which trigger a new way of recycling. It is not all about plastic, paper and tin, but also food waste!

How can we challenge the idea of food up-cycling, by repurposing food waste as products useful for everyday life.
Can we go back to our roots? How can we learn from traditional cooking methods in order to reduce food waste and encourage the use of local and seasonal ingredients.

Some links I found particularly interesting:

Upcycling Food Waste in Taiwan

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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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Anna Luz Joséphine Pueyo Kirwan October 28, 2019 7:11 pm

Dutch Visions

Hello !

Just dropping here a few links of organizations and projects gathered during the Dutch Design Week last week end.

Dutch designers have been pioneers on the topic of food in the last years and the Design Academy of Eindhoven has a special department dedicated to “Food / non food”. It was very interesting to see the emphasis that this year’s edition of the design week put on food.

If you didn’t have the chance to go, you can find a lot of the projects on the following websites. Have a good browse!

DUTCH DESIGN WEEK

official website of the design week

https://www.ddw.nl/en/home

THE DUTCH INSTITUTE OF FOOD

is focusing on the following questions :

What effect will the rising temperatures have on the production of common foods?

What would happen if we put invasive species on the menu?

Are the tomatoes we can find in the supermarket advanced pieces of technology or still products of natural processes?

And could a plant become a brand?

Can we hack our brain’s performance with my lunch? What would be the perfect meal in a fast-food world?

Can fast food be personalized to our taste?

Or could food become medicine?

Could we, literally, eat our way out of our problems?

And what would that taste like?

https://thedifd.com/

GEO DESIGN

Projects from the exhibition Junk : Geo-Design by students of Eindhoven for the design week in Milan last year, this time exhibited in the Van Halle exhibition in Eindhoven.

Very interesting for us even if it is not on the topic of food because it shows some great designs in terms of exhibition, communication and organization of the information.

https://press.designacademy.nl/geo-design-junk/projects

AGRI MEETS DESIGN

This European programme focuses on innovative food entrepreneurs working on the reduction of food losses in the neglected first parts of the food chain. The aim is to prevent food being produced for human consumption to go to waste and therefore degrade in the food waste pyramid to a lower value level. In the battle of reducing food waste the selected food entrepreneurs are paired up with designers in their search for surprising and effective solutions – these farmers and designers are the Food Heroes!

https://www.agrimeetsdesign.com/en/project/food-heroes/

PODCASTS

Here is a series of podcasts visiting the Dutch Design Week exhibitions

Uploading pictures on the drive soon…

See you tomorrow pumpkins!

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Clara Schmeinck October 18, 2019 11:43 am

Food loss and waste around the world

Hey guys,

I focused on finding basic information about food loss and waste around the world. During my research I stumbled upon this article of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations and their approach and strategies to find a solution to reduce food loss and waste.

This video explains their sustainable development goals on a social, economical and environmental level which they want to reach by the year of 2030.

this is the article: http://www.fao.org/policy-support/policy-themes/food-loss-food-waste/en/

Other interesting resources are listed here:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/people-waste-more-food-than-they-think-psychology/ (US only)

https://olioex.com/food-waste/food-waste-facts/

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/food-waste (lots of informative articles)

Have a great weekend and see you Tuesday

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Jeldrik Kirschbaum October 18, 2019 9:17 am *

Nutrition

Hi guys,

I did some research about nutrition and I just want to share a few things with you I figured out. So in order to get a good understanding about what I was going to look up, I searched for a definition first, which is saying: “The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.”. I found that agriculture and nutrition are a really related thing food wise, as physical and economical access to adequate and affordable nutritious food is primarily a function of the agricultural sector. Without agriculture there is only little food or nutrition BUT agricultural food doesn’t mean good nutrition! So some countries have better possibilities than others to grow nutritious food according to their climate zone, water occurrence etc.

Here is a website from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN with a lot data on most countries:

http://www.fao.org/home/en/

The main goal of agricultural development was to provide food that supports health and strength. But instead, most farmers produce food that is mainly providing calories which was good in the famine of the 1960’s and 70’s to feed many people, but has lead to a quantity thinking production wise, instead of quality. E.g. America uses 30% of its land mass to plant corn which is mainly containing calories.

Undernutrition is one of the biggest and most unheard public health challenges leading to 45% of under-5 child deaths. Today there are more than 162 million stunned children.

A few other good and reliable websites I found while research are:

https://www.worldbank.org/

https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries_en

Here another interesting video:

have a nice weekend

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David Martens October 17, 2019 5:39 pm *

Circular Food Economy Model

Expanding upon the post about circular economy by prof. Heidkamp, here is an article looking specifically at food within that framework, by Dr Francesca Zampollo.

The_Circular_Food_Economy_Model

Now when you click on the hashtag #circular economy, both the posts should be visible. Let’s share!

A fascinating photography series related to food is ‘Last Supper’ by Celia Shapiro. The photographs portray the last meal that was chosen and eaten by interns who received the death penalty. What would you choose as your last meal? 😮

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Sarah Pearson October 17, 2019 1:50 pm

‘The Future Sausage’ – Dutch Designer Carolien Niebling

Here is an interesting talk on The Future Sausage and working with the meat industry to decrease the intake of meat we eat. I heard her talk in Auckland, New Zealand a couple of months ago!

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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.

See also https://materie.me

PS: Marketa will give a talk at the NERD conference in Basel on Nov 1st/2nd and we are in touch to invite her to come to KISD at the beginning of December.

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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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