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Diana Samano Ramos
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
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
María Becerra Martínez January 29, 2020 5:00 pm

Tri-cycle poster

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Matea Varvodic
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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Anastasia König
Anastasia König January 29, 2020 7:42 am *

FairTeiler Köln

What it is: Foodsharing is an internet platform that gives private individuals, traders and producers the opportunity to offer or collect surplus food free of charge. This is done in FairTeilern which has set up rooms in publicly accessible places in various parts of the city, such as here in the Bürgerzentrum Ehrenfeld e.V. The aim is to share surplus food with others instead of throwing it away and making it available free of charge to anyone interested.

The core idea is people sharing food. There should be no money involved, because sharing also has an ethical dimension. In this way we give food an idealistic value again, because it is more than just a commodity.

Where it is: Cologne, Germany

Why it is relevant: The FairTeiler can act as an example for how food sharing and resource conservation can work in cities. It is also a good start for everyone to use their remaining food wisely instead of throwing it away. It is both money and resource saving and at the same time environmentally friendly

URL: https://foodsharing.koeln/?page_id=123

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

poster speisewald

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Kira Eßer
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
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
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
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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About

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).

Questions

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.

Dates

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).

  • Updated: October 21, 2019 5:42 pm

Cases

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

  • Updated: January 30, 2020 12:11 pm

Experts

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.

  • Updated: September 27, 2019 9:22 pm

Com

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

  • Updated: November 23, 2019 9:00 am

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