Meeting Tomorrow 07/01

Kira Eßer December 16, 2019 4:40 pm

Interviews!!!!!

Hey guys,

Anastasia posted it already, but here again. We want to make interviews with some farmers. Here is a list we want to visit next year, because now they are preparing the Christmas time und don’t have enough time.

The farmers:

Reinold Decker (Bornheim)
Bioland Apfelbacher (Bornheim)
Gertrudenhof (Hürth)
Gut Clarenhof (Frechen)
BioHof Bursch (Bornheim)
Krewelshof (Lohmar)? – we’re not sure

Please write in the comments if you are interested to visit them, and maybe be prepared.

Nice evening! 🙂

Experts 11

Philipp Heidkamp December 16, 2019 10:59 am

Meeting tomorrow / last meeting of the year

Please prepare a schedule for tomorrow in order to make sure everybody of you has its 20min slot to present and discuss the current status according to last weeks requirements. As this is the last meeting in this year it will be important to be on the same page. As 228 is way bigger than 303 it would be fine for me to meet there, I leave it up to you if you want to travel again to my office 311. So we are 8 groups / topics this means 3 hours work fine for 8×20 mins.

Please prepare a schedule with time / project name so that I know who will shop up when.

If there should be any important things to clarify before tomorrow please make a posting comment.

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. 😊

Research 30

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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Philipp Heidkamp December 10, 2019 9:45 pm *

Recap of today´s meeting

I hope you all agree that the individual meetings make a lot of sense – even if 20 mins is too short, we will increase the time. I took notes of some comments I had and want to share them with you. Hope it is useful. For the next time, please all work on the assignment of last time but bring results in all the points to address.

Team Food Forrest

(Anna Luz, Clara)

What are the core elements defining a food forest?

Artefact: Tensiometer

Scenario: needs to be clarified now, use as a method of inquiry!

Data Ecosystem: still t.b.d.

Places: Opportunities Theodor-Heuss-Ring: Rheinpendel https://www.dieguten.koeln/rheinpendel/

Maybe two places (1 and 2).

What is different from Neuland? Is it Neuland 2.0

Fermentation requires some infrastructure

Good experts!

Contact Neuland: Dorothea Hohengarten <dorothea.hohengarten@googlemail.com> and Clara von Hartz-Möllmann <vonhartz@moellmann-law.com>

Team Seasonal Restaurant Concept

(Samia, Maxime)

Universal restaurant concept

What would the 24 seasons mean for our relation to and understanding of food and farming.

2 future assumptions 2050

Very good system map as a basis for scenarios

Scenarios for Farmer and Consumer are now necessary!

Play around with

German names for the seasons!

How do restaurants deal with the problem that some (20%? 60%) of their meals are of non-seasonal or non-regional products?
How do you as a consumer deal with recipes and shopping with non/less seasonal / regional food? How smart would it be?

Experts: 2 restaurant owners, farmers (maybe also the founder of Ökomarkt Dr. Dornbusch <christoph.dornbusch@agrarkonzept.de>

Consumers: use design methods like diary, cultural probes

Team Stuff and Veggies / Jedöns on Jemös

Jeldrik, Anastasia, Kira

Place: Use an existing area (Neuland)

Constituting elements of the concepts: shared / community kitchen, food bank / donations, eco-saving shop, chill out area, art exhibitions, music screenings, jam sessions -> might be too much at the same time!

Can temporary use like Neuland be a way if the bureaucracy takes so long

Stakeholder: a lot of stakeholder,

Places: walk around and look at possible places!

Scenario: Missing. Who will use your concept how? Weather, years, how many days of rain

Data Ecosystem: related to the concept, how will this affect stakeholders.

Experts: some farmers, please exchange your contacts to avoid one farmer gets 3 calls from us without knowing from each other

Artefact: Apple? Artefact, object, thing, product?

Redesign food distribution in Cologne / Hyperfood network

Matea

Letter shoot principle for food

Very well understood the structure / infrastructure and network existing in Cologne

What would be necessary is to understand about the required quantity

Focus on the question of type of food and transportation modes (how fast, what needs to be fresh, what´s the typical you need at a fingertip). Hyperloop vs. drones.

Good use of the Underground Fridge (https://www.groundfridge.com/dutch-design-week/) as a public fridge

Using existing infrastructures

Scenario: not so much about privacy issues etc, more about building and using the system from different perspectives (farmer, architect,

Data Ecosystem: lot of opportunities!

Experts: Hyperloop expert, architect, shop/chain (Rewe, Aldi…)
Understand a specific area in Cologne and focus on that for creating more “data layers”

Understand the consumption of goods (per capita use of, then calculate for an area)

Artefact: ?

Something like: Redesigning food / eating behaviour of specific type of students through an impactful intervention (?)

Yasmine

Scenario: Student goes after class to…

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Studentenwerk, nutrition scientist, restaurant owner next to Unis Mensas

Artefact:

(back to the) Roots

Kalia

Design a product with the main idea of sharing,

cooler, using tradition (like clay etc.)

Scenario: not yet

Data Ecosystem:

Experts:

Artefact: The cooler / fridge, but at the moment too elaborated.

Seasonal seasoning (?) or: Integrated / Holis Restaurant, Food Cycle, Food Circle

Maria

Restaurant integrating production, consumption and distribution

Place: where can it be in the city? Which type of building (new one / existing one). If a new one: what are the requirements for the building

Do not do architecture, do spatial structures to address the needs of process and system, slightly to create an experience

Storyboard: needs to be more specific.

Scenario:

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Farmers, chef cooking regional, understanding the seasonality of fruits and vegetables in our region

Artefact:

Look at noma Copenhagen (https://noma.dk/) and https://de.phaidon.com/agenda/food/articles/2018/february/21/why-bjarke-ingels-based-noma-2-0-on-a-farm/

Redesigning food market in Cologne or: Branding Biodeversity

Sarah, Diana

Promote biodversity and traditional meals, while connecting farmer and urban communities

Very good background information about biodiversity

Focus on potato

Germans eat 61 kg potatoes every year: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37703/umfrage/pro-kopf-verbrauch-von-kartoffeln-in-den-laendern-der-eu/

How to orchestrate biodiversity: a range of a product (4000 sorts of potatoes)

https://www.gustagarden.com/kartoffelsorten/

Learn from corporate branding strategies: Potato of the year or year of the potatoes

Scenario:

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Farmers

Artefact: Something that brands a specific product

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David Martens December 9, 2019 10:20 am *

The Great Move – From R303 to R228

Dear teams, we are happy to announce that we are moving from R303 to a bigger room, R228! Everyone should from now on be on the key-list for R228. This is on the second floor, taking a left when coming out of the elevator.

This means that the individual meetings tomorrow will take place in R228.. See you there. Also, I saw that not everyone has picked a slot yet, please do so if you want to continue with this project. See you tomorrow!

David Martens December 4, 2019 9:15 am *

Recap 03/12 + Deliverables Tuesday 10/12

Thanks for making it through the long meeting!

Everyone knows now who is working on what, this means that the final project-teams/individuals should be clear by next week. I have set up tutoring slots for this Thursday (05/12) for those who want. This extra tutoring would be especially of value if you are unsure of your project (or team or …) as this is your last chance to tweak your topic before it needs to be crystalised next week Tuesday (10/12). Please come by, we can chat about it 🙂 Choose a slot here.

For next week on Tuesday (10/12), we will work with tutoring-slots again but then with prof. Heidkamp and me, every project-team/individual needs to book in a slot here. To enable a more profound discussion, there are 4 things we ask you to take to the meeting.

Scenario – (Storyboard, sketches, pictures, …) Show us your idea. The goal is to start conceptually shaping the ideas, while simultaneously doing research. Go very concrete, think about a place, and the actors in that place. So you can zoom out – open up again after. Not every element needs to be defined, nor is the scenario fixed. Let’s iterate this over the next weeks.
Data Ecosystem – As a common denominator (criteria), every project needs to situate itself in the data ecosystem. What does that mean? When mapping your project, show what kind of data could be gathered. Ideally marking a variety of points in your concept where data could be generated, without considering the meaning/value of that data too much yet.
Experts – Show us which experts you want to approach, when you will hear them and how they can inform your project.
Conversation Artefact – Bring something tangible!! A mock-up, a model, … of the product(s), service, … you are wanting to design. Of course this can (and should be) low-fidelity, but this is an exercise to materialise our conversations and to start thinking through making!! This should be a fun, designerly part, so just do stuff and try things out. There’s no right or wrong as long as you bring something.

Finally, we talked about criteria, which now hang up in the room, they are there to be challenged and expanded upon but take them into account when defining your concepts!

Yihaaaa! Let’s get through this wordy/fuzzy phase and go into a more tangible fuzzy phase! 😉 Prof. Heidkamp, you have anything to add? See you soon!

Diana Samano Ramos December 3, 2019 12:41 pm

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Ideas

Food design concept

Jeldrik Kirschbaum December 3, 2019 11:50 am *

Cooking and living – shared kitchen

What is it:

A shared kitchen run by a young couple that tries to connect (mainly young ) people as a community and teach how to cook. As you have to book for your events/activities and pay quiete a high price for your time it seems approachable only for mid/high class income groups. Their clean and fancy appearing kitchen also narrows down the target group.

Where is it:

Taipei, Taiwan

Why is it relevant:

They teach a young (people that create the future scenery), interested and ambitious community how to cook with ingredients they might not know (maybe typical taiwanese ingredients), create a community around food and make the action of handling food and actually work with it as a new way of spending your free time with friends/ family.

https://cookingliving.tw/

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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 January 6, 2020 3:50 pm

Meeting Tomorrow 07/01

2020! Yippiee

Let’s start the new year with a good productive meeting tomorrow 😉

See you tomorrow!!

Kira Eßer December 16, 2019 4:40 pm

Interviews!!!!!

Hey guys,

The farmers:

Reinold Decker (Bornheim)
Bioland Apfelbacher (Bornheim)
Gertrudenhof (Hürth)
Gut Clarenhof (Frechen)
BioHof Bursch (Bornheim)
Krewelshof (Lohmar)? – we’re not sure

Please write in the comments if you are interested to visit them, and maybe be prepared.

Nice evening! 🙂

Experts 11

Philipp Heidkamp December 16, 2019 10:59 am

Meeting tomorrow / last meeting of the year

Please prepare a schedule with time / project name so that I know who will shop up when.

If there should be any important things to clarify before tomorrow please make a posting comment.

Kira Eßer December 15, 2019 11:00 am

Just found that

Research 30

David Martens December 12, 2019 12:57 pm *

Design Research Methods – Interviewing Techniques

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.

Meeting 32 Organisation 44 Research 30

Philipp Heidkamp December 10, 2019 9:45 pm *

Recap of today´s meeting

Team Food Forrest

(Anna Luz, Clara)

What are the core elements defining a food forest?

Artefact: Tensiometer

Scenario: needs to be clarified now, use as a method of inquiry!

Data Ecosystem: still t.b.d.

Places: Opportunities Theodor-Heuss-Ring: Rheinpendel https://www.dieguten.koeln/rheinpendel/

Maybe two places (1 and 2).

What is different from Neuland? Is it Neuland 2.0

Fermentation requires some infrastructure

Good experts!

Contact Neuland: Dorothea Hohengarten <dorothea.hohengarten@googlemail.com> and Clara von Hartz-Möllmann <vonhartz@moellmann-law.com>

Team Seasonal Restaurant Concept

(Samia, Maxime)

Universal restaurant concept

What would the 24 seasons mean for our relation to and understanding of food and farming.

2 future assumptions 2050

Very good system map as a basis for scenarios

Scenarios for Farmer and Consumer are now necessary!

Play around with

German names for the seasons!

How do restaurants deal with the problem that some (20%? 60%) of their meals are of non-seasonal or non-regional products?
How do you as a consumer deal with recipes and shopping with non/less seasonal / regional food? How smart would it be?

Experts: 2 restaurant owners, farmers (maybe also the founder of Ökomarkt Dr. Dornbusch <christoph.dornbusch@agrarkonzept.de>

Consumers: use design methods like diary, cultural probes

Team Stuff and Veggies / Jedöns on Jemös

Jeldrik, Anastasia, Kira

Place: Use an existing area (Neuland)

Can temporary use like Neuland be a way if the bureaucracy takes so long

Stakeholder: a lot of stakeholder,

Places: walk around and look at possible places!

Scenario: Missing. Who will use your concept how? Weather, years, how many days of rain

Data Ecosystem: related to the concept, how will this affect stakeholders.

Experts: some farmers, please exchange your contacts to avoid one farmer gets 3 calls from us without knowing from each other

Artefact: Apple? Artefact, object, thing, product?

Redesign food distribution in Cologne / Hyperfood network

Matea

Letter shoot principle for food

Very well understood the structure / infrastructure and network existing in Cologne

What would be necessary is to understand about the required quantity

Focus on the question of type of food and transportation modes (how fast, what needs to be fresh, what´s the typical you need at a fingertip). Hyperloop vs. drones.

Good use of the Underground Fridge (https://www.groundfridge.com/dutch-design-week/) as a public fridge

Using existing infrastructures

Scenario: not so much about privacy issues etc, more about building and using the system from different perspectives (farmer, architect,

Data Ecosystem: lot of opportunities!

Experts: Hyperloop expert, architect, shop/chain (Rewe, Aldi…)
Understand a specific area in Cologne and focus on that for creating more “data layers”

Understand the consumption of goods (per capita use of, then calculate for an area)

Artefact: ?

Something like: Redesigning food / eating behaviour of specific type of students through an impactful intervention (?)

Yasmine

Scenario: Student goes after class to…

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Studentenwerk, nutrition scientist, restaurant owner next to Unis Mensas

Artefact:

(back to the) Roots

Kalia

Design a product with the main idea of sharing,

cooler, using tradition (like clay etc.)

Scenario: not yet

Data Ecosystem:

Experts:

Artefact: The cooler / fridge, but at the moment too elaborated.

Seasonal seasoning (?) or: Integrated / Holis Restaurant, Food Cycle, Food Circle

Maria

Restaurant integrating production, consumption and distribution

Place: where can it be in the city? Which type of building (new one / existing one). If a new one: what are the requirements for the building

Do not do architecture, do spatial structures to address the needs of process and system, slightly to create an experience

Storyboard: needs to be more specific.

Scenario:

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Farmers, chef cooking regional, understanding the seasonality of fruits and vegetables in our region

Artefact:

Look at noma Copenhagen (https://noma.dk/) and https://de.phaidon.com/agenda/food/articles/2018/february/21/why-bjarke-ingels-based-noma-2-0-on-a-farm/

Redesigning food market in Cologne or: Branding Biodeversity

Sarah, Diana

Promote biodversity and traditional meals, while connecting farmer and urban communities

Very good background information about biodiversity

Focus on potato

Germans eat 61 kg potatoes every year: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37703/umfrage/pro-kopf-verbrauch-von-kartoffeln-in-den-laendern-der-eu/

How to orchestrate biodiversity: a range of a product (4000 sorts of potatoes)

https://www.gustagarden.com/kartoffelsorten/

Learn from corporate branding strategies: Potato of the year or year of the potatoes

Scenario:

Data Ecosystem:

Experts: Farmers

Artefact: Something that brands a specific product

Meeting 32 comments 1 feedback 2 project 1 scenarios 1

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David Martens December 9, 2019 10:20 am *

The Great Move – From R303 to R228