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Foodio
L2 Winter S1 2022
Throughout history, food and culture shape each other through availability, trade, migration, and globalization. Today, climate change, the pandemic, and the war in Ukraine are the latest to disrupt our diet. But how do we tell the stories of these changing systems and better understand how they affect our lives and what we eat?
Foodio is a storytelling and data visualization studio in which students will explore historical and contemporary issues around culture, accessibility, immigration, and supply chains. Students will design culinary experiences that illustrate and flavor the broader context of current issues, how they came to be, and what they mean for the future of food through delicious interactive elements!
Sarah Wigglesworth dining table
Installation
Design
Culture
Politics
???
Peter Menzel, from the book
"Hungry Planet: What the World Eats."
Synthesize
Discuss
Research
Visualize
A few things...
- This studio is research-based, and you will be expected to do more homework and writing than in most other studios.
- A core component of this studio is communication. During open discussions, you must be prepared to articulate yourself, during pinups your work must be able to speak for itself.
- Our data visualizations will focus on composition, plating, and presentation. Most food in final projects must be designed to be cooked at home and assembled here.
Precedents
Research + Graphic Design
Week 1
Storytelling +
Experience Design
Week 2 + 3
History of Food Through Culture + Politics
Week 1
What is the future of food?
Week 3
Contemporary Issues + Food Stories
Week 2
A few things...
- This studio is research-based, and you will be expected to do more homework and writing than in most other studios.
- A core component of this studio is communication. During open discussions, you must be prepared to articulate yourself, during pinups your work must be able to speak for itself.
- Our data visualizations will focus on composition, plating, and presentation. Most food in final projects must be designed to be cooked at home and assembled here.
As a studio, how can we facilitate constructive discussions?
What makes a discussion constructive?
- Stays on topic
- productive, achieves something, digs deeper, substantive
- Take notes
- Come prepared, incorporate research
- Come up with new ideas or concepts
How can we achieve this?
- Be present in the conversation
- Research beforehand
- Be respectful
- Have a notetaker (rotating)
Physical Visualizations
"Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
Félix González-Torres, 1991
Of All the People in All the World
Stan's Cafe, 2008
Sugar Stacks
2009