Philipp Heidkamp November 18, 2019 8:51 am *

Hello Cologne – first video message from Taipei

As mentioned, we made up our mind how to stay in touch and keep the dialogue running because even if we kicked off the workshop just a couple of hours ago I think there are already some things to share. So we will try also to write cases (thank you for your excellent contributions up to now!) but also to send you at least one message per day sharing what we are working on.

David will make a short video later but I am just I saying hello

to you for now. For tomorrow, connect with us via zoom, just check to install software and connect via https://zoom.us/j/5505005500 and we will meet. We might become better day by day.

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David Martens November 18, 2019 5:30 am *

RESEARCH – POSTS AND CARDS!

We have started the workshop now and have no access yet to your research. Please post your cases and research on spaces as soon as possible and upload the files of your flashcards onto the drive. Thanks! This way it’s there for everyone.

Also, how is it looking for tomorrow? Surely it would be interesting for you to check in with what we are doing over here, therefore I’d like to ask who will attend the Zoom-meeting tomorrow. And who’s computer could you use? Just respond to this post if you’ll be there and who’d be up to download zoom to enable the meeting. Download zoom here: https://zoom.us/

To organise that, we will check in at 09:45 Cologne time, to test if everything is working. From 10 onwards, you can hear the current state of the research of the different groups.

I have already scheduled a Zoom meeting which you can access under this link:

https://zoom.us/j/204961328?pwd=TFpKN1Fhb3lmM2J2SzU4bVpEMUNWQT09

Meeting ID: 204 961 328
Password: 042178

If there are any complications, you can reach me via WhatsApp on the number +447480694205

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Sarah-Yasmine Aoufi November 17, 2019 12:56 am

Karma – The zero food waste generation

What it is:
Karma’s ultimate mission is to ensure that great food is never wasted. They want to lead the shift towards a more sustainable society, with the belief that we’re stronger together. If everyone takes small steps in tackling this issue, we can make a meaningful difference for the future.

The app has reached 150 Swedish cities, working with 2000 retailers, and attracting 500,000 app users. In February 2018, Karma launched in London and one year later, setup a third market in Paris. To date, 295 tonnes food has been rescued with the app!

Where it is currently available:
Sweden, London, Paris

Why it is relevant:
One third of all food produced is thrown away annually, resulting in 1.3 billion tonnes of waste worldwide. The food industry takes a major toll on the environment, from the staggering amount of resources required in production and distribution, to the CO2 emissions from waste in landfills. It’s time to make a change and that’s where Karma comes in. By buying delicious unsold food for half the price, you help in creating a more sustainable society by reducing food waste.

URL: https://karma.life/

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Sarah-Yasmine Aoufi November 17, 2019 12:50 am

FoodCycle – A society where no one is hungry or lonely

What it is:
Over 8 million people in the UK struggle to get enough to eat, but at the same time, 12 million tonnes of food is wasted each year. Many people deal with the devastating impact of loneliness, going from one week to the next without speaking to another person.

Food Cycle is a national charity that builds communities through surplus food, volunteers and spare kitchen spaces. They create tasty three-course meals for vulnerable people across the UK, and are united by the simple belief that food waste and food poverty should not co-exist.

Where it is:
UK, mainly England

Why it is relevant:
Aside from reducing food waste, communities are being build, enabling people to get to know all kinds of people. A lack of social contact with other people can have a huge effect on an individual’s mental and physical health, so they make sure to be a place for guests to make friends and have a good time. Also, reducing food poverty and supporting people living with hunger being the main objective, it is a step towards distributing food correctly.

URL: https://www.foodcycle.org.uk/

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David Martens November 15, 2019 6:03 am *

Update Taiwan 15/11

Hi everyone, we have arrived safe and sound here in Taiwan. After a good night of rest, we are now out exploring and investigating interesting different sites.

Besides that you can continue working on your topics, I would like to ask everyone to upload the files of their flashcards, both the InDesign as well as the pdf in this drive folder.
And also, in a similar way, could everyone upload their research onto spaces? Instead of the cards itself, make a post where you use the same contents as you developed for the cards. Use the title as the post-title, use your description to share the content of the post and add in some images and links! Don’t forget to use some tags when posting so we can easily retrieve your research.

DEADLINE: SUNDAY MORNING (17/11) for both uploading the cards into the drive, as well as making your research posts. I will then format them together and print them out as materials to be shared during the workshop. Thanks!

Now it is up to you to connect with a member in Taipei and share with them specific questions you are having to progress with your personal projects. Besides receiving updates through spaces, there are already two specific moments we will connect to you “Live” via Zoom. More info later about how we will exactly do that. For now, just schedule these two dates in:

TUESDAY (19/11): 10 AM – 30 MIN Zoom Meeting The groups will update the Cologne side on their progression.

FRIDAY (22/11): 08:30 AM – 60 MIN Zoom Meeting This will be the final presentation of all of the groups.

Have a good Friday and get back to you soon.

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Philipp Heidkamp November 12, 2019 5:51 pm *

UPDATE (2): Six groups, six assignments in the Taiwan workshop

After our intense collaboration work today I was suggesting 6 domains and assignments for the Taipei workshop week. I spent this morning to make them easier accessible for the students joining the workshop – as they don´t know about our process and and context. So I hope this reads more easy now, that everybody can imagine possible directions and outcomes for the end of the week – and I am sure you will all find the questions you had (and the stuff you were interested in)…and now we also have a consistency and it is clearer that the outcome will be scenarios based on specific places in the city (or around), on specific (food) products, on a specific us of data and information (technology), and on specific people or communities.

We will do it! And see you on Sunday and stay connected via spaces!

Team 1 Future Consumption
Designing scenarios for a new eating out experience (food stall / pop-up / restaurant / farm to plate …) in a specific location with a specific type of food.

Context: In the future, the concepts of restaurants will proceed to change. How can we re-think our understanding and concept of “restaurant”? Where – in the neighborhood – would such a place be? What would be the experience, depending on a very specific type of food they are offering? What type of specific (food) products would be available? How will it connect (to) consumer/citizen and farmer? Which information is relevant for the food, for the cultivation process, which communities might emerge? What do people (need to) know about the food they eat? Are restaurants embedded in (specific) communities?
Team: Maxime,

Team 2 Future Distribution / Retail
Designing scenarios for a specific market / retail (food / agriculture market / pop-up store) experience in a specific location and a specific type of food.

Context: Designing a new market / retail experience to meet emerging customer´s needs.
Where will those places be? What are best places and why? Who will be the customers? What will be “sold”? How will this match new shopping behaviors you see emerging? Which information is available about the products and how will people use this information, get in touch with it? What is the new experience? How can we address very specific cultural acceptances?
Team: Matea, Florian

Team 3 Future Distribution / Sharing
Designing scenarios for a new food sharing experience in urban space creating communities of practice using hybrid platforms (including three specific places).

Context: How can we learn from cases like food banks all over the world and avoid that food to good to be wasted will reach new people / customers? How can we design this setting to make it accessible? Where and how in Public space can this happen? How will it be organized that people accept it, like it and maybe even build communities around it?
Team: Jeldrik

Team 4 Future Farming / Agro-Communities
Designing scenarios for new types of Agro-Communities in / around Taipei

Context: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as a success model in Taipei and what are opportunities, activities and challenges when implementing new technologies emerge? How to connect citizen and farmer, what is the benefit for them? How can the process of farming be monitored? Which data are / might be available? How are digital media used to strengthen communities? How to build and strengthen communities, which communities emerge? How and what to share and work together?
Team: Clara

Team 6 Future Farming / Relationships
Designing scenarios for interaction with / accessing information about food and ingredients to establish new (food) values and (key stakeholder) relationships.

Context: What kind of data would be valuable from the different perspectives (consumers, farmers / producers) and how can sharing this data influence their relationship and bring new values to food? According to the different types of data, how can future technologies be applied to carry this information, which interface could this imply and what could this mean for food “packaging”?
Team: Anna Luz,

Team 6 Future Food: New Products
Designing scenarios at a specific place to present and experience relevant information as a “food exhibition” by appropriate means and (hybrid) media

Context: What are typical Taiwanese agricultural products (define three!), how can we analyse it and use available data to both inform customers and come to new use of all possible byproducts? How can value be created, how can customers get a new attitude to a product through this knowledge? This includes every possible step in tracing back the growth and processing of the product. Designing the information layers of a food product and emerging opportunities based on this knowledge
Team: Sarah, Helena

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Philipp Heidkamp November 11, 2019 7:12 pm

Criteria

Here I am sharing the criteria for the Taipei workshop -. and of course they are related to our work here. So please have them in mind as criteria for your individual project topics to work on.

CRITERIA

(Future) speculations about food and the city will lead to countless opportunities. In order to narrow down your focus and being able to relate your outcomes to each other a set of criteria for your work and our evaluation are set.

Try to connect people, places and activities in the city with the rural
Connect/relate people to food and build communities
Create awareness of food/ingredient quality, relate people to food, engage, educate
Provide (useful, necessary, feasible and digestible) data and information about food/ingredients and farming products, make intelligent use of information technology
Try to relate production and consumption in a closer way!
Use very characteristic and specific places in the city (abandoned spaces, green rooftops, (pop-up) restaurants, markets… to make things tangible
Focus on agriculture (fruits, vegetables, crops etc.) as this allows the biggest flexibility in involvement and scalability
Find possible distinction criteria of your product and create a narrative relevant for consumers.

And, some hints for your work:

Look at Community Supported Agriculture – how can this support (or plug into) the individual projects?
Decrease the middle-men in the supply chain
Use of digital technology to improve solutions
Empowering local products, people
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 places as a touchpoint where new experiences emerge

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.

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Philipp Heidkamp November 11, 2019 5:39 pm

Six groups, six topics

Tomorrow we need to fix the six groups for Taipei. As discussed on Friday it would be beneficial for all of us if a) the KISDies in the 6 Taipei groups are both bringing in their experience & interest and push their topic forward in Taipei – with the help of the other students in the intense week and if b) there might be the opportunity to team up with the other 7 students staying here in Cologne. This would be a great match, I don´t know if it will work for all – but I suggest!

As finding the topics seems to be a catch 22 we came up on Friday with the following overview:

Group 1 and 2 Consume: Designing a new restaurant experience in Taipei
In the future, the concepts of restaurants will proceed to change. You will work on this topic here in Taipei, being open to re-think your understanding and concept of “restaurant”. You will think of new types of restaurants. Where would such a restaurant be? What would be the experience, depending on a very specific type of food they are offering? 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? What do people (need to) know about the food they eat? Are restaurants embedded in (specific) communities?
1. Street stall / pop-up Sarah
2. Restaurant / farm to plate Maxime

Group 3 and 4 Distribute: Designing a new market / retail experience to meet emerging customer´s needs
Where will it be? What are best places and why? What will be “sold”? How will 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?
3. Food market experience / pop-up store Mattea
4. Food bank Jeldrik

Group 5 and 6 Produce: Designing a concept for new farming activities for emerging urban farming activities
How to connect citizen and farmer, what is the benefit for them? How can food be monitored? Which data are / might be available? How to build and strengthen communities, which communities emerge? How and what to share and work together?
5. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) outside of Taipei Clara ( / Sarah?)
6. Connecting consumers to farmer through data Anna Luz
and / or optionally: Urban Farming in a specific location in Taipei

So the challenge for tomorrow will be to adapt your project title (according to the questions you had / I revised) according to the above mentioned 6 subtopics. If there will be a shift from your side – perfect, but let´s see that we are covering the most crucial things and that we stay in the three domains.Hope that works for you…but I am sure.

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Philipp Heidkamp November 11, 2019 1:16 pm *

Food connect

https://vimeo.com/172998484

What it is: Food Connect’s vision is to create a world where everyone has access to healthy, fresh, ecologically-grown food that is fair to growers, eaters, and the planet. They want to transform the food system, and they believe the next step towards this vision is to create a working local food hub for the regional food economy, that is owned by the community. “We exist to create fair and prosperous regional and urban food economies because we believe that changing the way we source and distribute food is fundamental to solving the world’s most pressing social and ecological problems.”
Together with over 500 of their local community, customers, farmers and supporters, they raised over $2 million in an equity crowdfunding campaign in late 2018 to purchase the warehouse they rented for over 12 years. This led to Australia’s first community-owned local food hub, the Food Connect Shed, providing the infrastructure to create a stable market for farmers, completely divorced from market forces, and to create a home to many ethical food entrepreneurs. The founder Rob is now well ensconced in his new role as Shed Director, and you’ll often find him giving group tours of all the tenancies and exciting them with the grand vision!

Where it is:Brisbane / Australia

Why it is relevant: They support local farmers, engage with an interested food community in the cities, work on products and change the delivery mechanisms. Over the years, the community was grown, new (high quality and pricy) products emerged. In addition, the video above gives a good first explanation about food chain mechanisms and global food challenges.

URL: https://foodconnect.com.au/

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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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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 18, 2019 8:51 am *

Hello Cologne – first video message from Taipei

David will make a short video later but I am just I saying hello

to you for now. For tomorrow, connect with us via zoom, just check to install software and connect via https://zoom.us/j/5505005500 and we will meet. We might become better day by day.

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David Martens November 18, 2019 5:30 am *

RESEARCH – POSTS AND CARDS!

To organise that, we will check in at 09:45 Cologne time, to test if everything is working. From 10 onwards, you can hear the current state of the research of the different groups.

I have already scheduled a Zoom meeting which you can access under this link:

https://zoom.us/j/204961328?pwd=TFpKN1Fhb3lmM2J2SzU4bVpEMUNWQT09

Meeting ID: 204 961 328
Password: 042178

If there are any complications, you can reach me via WhatsApp on the number +447480694205

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Sarah-Yasmine Aoufi November 17, 2019 12:56 am

Karma – The zero food waste generation

Where it is currently available:
Sweden, London, Paris

URL: https://karma.life/

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Sarah-Yasmine Aoufi November 17, 2019 12:50 am

FoodCycle – A society where no one is hungry or lonely

Where it is:
UK, mainly England

URL: https://www.foodcycle.org.uk/

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David Martens November 15, 2019 6:03 am *

Update Taiwan 15/11

Hi everyone, we have arrived safe and sound here in Taiwan. After a good night of rest, we are now out exploring and investigating interesting different sites.

TUESDAY (19/11): 10 AM – 30 MIN Zoom Meeting The groups will update the Cologne side on their progression.

FRIDAY (22/11): 08:30 AM – 60 MIN Zoom Meeting This will be the final presentation of all of the groups.

Have a good Friday and get back to you soon.

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Philipp Heidkamp November 12, 2019 5:51 pm *

UPDATE (2): Six groups, six assignments in the Taiwan workshop

We will do it! And see you on Sunday and stay connected via spaces!

Team 1 Future Consumption
Designing scenarios for a new eating out experience (food stall / pop-up / restaurant / farm to plate …) in a specific location with a specific type of food.

Team 4 Future Farming / Agro-Communities
Designing scenarios for new types of Agro-Communities in / around Taipei

Team 6 Future Food: New Products
Designing scenarios at a specific place to present and experience relevant information as a “food exhibition” by appropriate means and (hybrid) media

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Philipp Heidkamp November 11, 2019 7:12 pm

Criteria

Here I am sharing the criteria for the Taipei workshop -. and of course they are related to our work here. So please have them in mind as criteria for your individual project topics to work on.

CRITERIA

Try to connect people, places and activities in the city with the rural
Connect/relate people to food and build communities
Create awareness of food/ingredient quality, relate people to food, engage, educate
Provide (useful, necessary, feasible and digestible) data and information about food/ingredients and farming products, make intelligent use of information technology
Try to relate production and consumption in a closer way!
Use very characteristic and specific places in the city (abandoned spaces, green rooftops, (pop-up) restaurants, markets… to make things tangible
Focus on agriculture (fruits, vegetables, crops etc.) as this allows the biggest flexibility in involvement and scalability
Find possible distinction criteria of your product and create a narrative relevant for consumers.

And, some hints for your work:

Look at Community Supported Agriculture – how can this support (or plug into) the individual projects?
Decrease the middle-men in the supply chain
Use of digital technology to improve solutions
Empowering local products, people
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 places as a touchpoint where new experiences emerge

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.