Here's a little perspective view of my final project.
This project is about how cities eat. About how food gets to us in the cities. And about experiencing food from soil to table.
Carolyn Steel’s ‘Hungry City’ is also about how cities eat. It looks at food’s journey from the land to the city via the supermarkets and kitchens. She focuses our eyes on food and how it shapes our lives and our cities, and how it impacts on society and the environment. She goes on to imagine using food as a driver to re-think cities of the future. Sitopia (from the Greek sitos, meaning food, and topos meaning place) is a fictional city which uses food to postively shape our world.
Despite coming from the utopian tradition, Sitopia is an exercise in realistic and practical change. Because of the nature of food it involves a wide spectrum of issues: social, economic and environmental. And this project aims at being a small part of that “positive global revolution... in which we all learn to see the world through food”. |
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