{"id":130,"date":"2019-11-23T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/?p=130"},"modified":"2019-11-23T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:29:50","slug":"workshop-at-scid-with-the-kisd-project-future-cities-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/2019\/11\/23\/workshop-at-scid-with-the-kisd-project-future-cities-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop at SCID with the KISD project Future Cities: Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Running a full-semester project in winter term 2019 with 13 experienced and passionate students from 8 nations. The project aims at investigating the question how cities (and their dwellers) can be connected to both food and agriculture \/ farmers using data and information technology. In preparing the workshop, I was really surprised how much technology is already used in smallholder farming in different areas all over the worlds. In the US, Australia and New Zealand all forms of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) evolved to new levels using information about the food on the field, the way the farmers work and strengthen the community of consumers and farmers by different scenarios using remote technology. IBM uses blockchain in large style industrial food tracking – a technology that has not yet unfolded its full potential especially for smallholder farmers reducing the middlemen and allowing consumers and farmers to connect in a new way and thus empowering the farmer thorough better prices as well as increased quality and ecology of the products. In Africa, low-end technology (GSM-based text communication) informs remote and isolated farmers about weather forecast, harvesting and cropping times, diseases as well as possible prices to achieve. The same here: empowering the farmer, encouraging the production of better quality. In China, high-end infrastructure allows live-streaming platforms like Alibaba\u00b4s Taobao to engage new stakeholder, connect remotely to the farmers and increasing not only the sales of the products, but also the understanding, the value and closeness of the remote clients in the city – both for products but also for farming. The KISDspace platform<\/a> is giving a good insight to this project.<\/p>\n

In November 2019, we had a workshop with 6 KISD students and 18 students from SCID MA Industrial design. We worked in 6 mixed teams on 6 topics:<\/p>\n