UR2022

Faculty: Katsushi Goto | Neethu Mathew

What’s on the Plate – Sustainable Urbanism on Food Production, Consumption and Dissipation

The late 1800s saw a proliferation of household manuals aimed at describing housekeeping, cooking and dining practices for the Victorian and Edwardian Households, and with the Empire, to British colonies in the rest of the world.
In the studio, we re-think the ways we cook and dine with particular attention to kitchen and table arrangement, dining table and spatial organisation of the rooms while articulating what has become mundane cultureundefinedconsumption of food.
Further, we will address scale and cyclical notion of food distribution, consumption and dissipation while confirming the current imbalance created between rural and urban.
Design project must be strategic towards the distribution of functions that support production and logistics, spatial organisation for cultureundefinedconsumption and conceptualizing sustainability within collection and dissipation of food waste to bring back to its production cycle.