The Edible City
February 26, 2007
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For the past few months, together with colleagues Hans Ibelings and Anneke Moors, I have been curating an exhibtion for the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Maastricht titled the Edible City. The exhibition is about the urban environment and its food systems. There was a time when city-dwellers could more or less provide for their own alimentary requirements. The entire production, distribution, consumption and recycling of food took place primarily in the city and its immediate surroundings. But since the Industrial Revolution, the chain of food ‘from field to fork’ has greatly increased in length.
The Edible City presents a diverse range of proposals and strategies to produce food in or near the city and that offer the opportunity to experience the city in a different way. As befits the subject, much of the exhibition is itself edible.
- The Edible City / de Eetbare Stad
March 3 - 22 June, 2007
Netherlands Architecture Institute - Maastricht
Wiebengahal
Avenue Ceramique 226 - Adjacent to Bonnefanten Museum, entrance on Daemslunet side.
T: +31(0)43-3503020
info@naimaastricht.nl
- - AVL Ville - Atelier van Lieshout
- - Farmers’ Markets: Nina Planck, London Farmers Markets, Carolina Verhoeven (also, thanks to Brouwer Betist en Sawadee)
- - London’s Borough Market - Greig + Stephenson Architects
- City Farming Plant Modules - N55
- City Food - M. Dijkman, A. de Jong, D. Herzog- - de Vuurkeizer - Nio Architecten
- - Doorgeschoten (Bolted) - Maarten Kolk
- - DOTT07 Urban Farming - David Barrie, Nina Belk, Debra Solomon
- - Drinking water fountain - Jan Konings
- - Drumflowers - We can make tomorrow better - Tom Philips
- - EcoSphere - Happy Shrimp Farm
- - Edible Estates and Fritz Haeg Studio
- - EVA-Lanxmeer - Foundation EVA (Marleen Kaptein) and House of Concepts (Jorn Mols)
- - Exploded London, Egg diagram, LeisurESCAPE and images of Cuban organoponicos - Bohn & Viljoen Architects
- - Fallen Fruit - David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young
- - Farmtycoon - FABRICations (Eric Frijters), WUR-Alterra, InnovatieNetwerk
- - Freegans - Adam Weissman, spokesperson
- - Garden Village Collections - Herman de Vries, SKOR (Foundation for Art in the Public Domain)
- - Grow yer own dang food Sprout Restaurant - Debra Solomon / culiblog.org and van der Plas Sprouts
- - Infra Ecology - Duzan Doepel, Jago van Bergen, Willemijn Lofvers
- - Free Range Kitchen Refridgerator, Chicken Coop, wood burning oven, climate machine - Ton Matton
- - Maastricht, Tolbert, Rotterdam - o.m. Foundation Oudheidkamer Fredewalda Tolbert (Bralt Hovinga)
- - Middlehaven Docks - SMC Alsop Architects
- - Parc Unimétal Caen - Agence Dominique Perrault
- - Pig City, Markthal Rotterdam - MVRDV
- - South Central Farmers - Axis of Justice
- - The Kitchen of Terrestrial Mechanics - John Arndt
- - Tour vivante - Atelier SOA Architectes
- - Urban Agriculture - all over the world - ECF-RUAF
- - Food chain city / Voedselketenstad - 2012 Architecten, Het Portaal, Innovation Netwerk
- - Wasteware - Matthijs Vogels
- - Wujin WAZ Holland Park - WUR/Alterra (Peter Smeets, Rik Olde Loohuis)
- - Sand bag garden / Zandzakkentuin - Studio Jurgen Bey
- - Seven street pieces for Almere / Zeven Straatstukken voor Almere - De Pavi
The exhibition is based on an idea by Guus Beumer and is curated by Debra Solomon (culiblog.org), Anneke Moors and Hans Ibelings. The exhibition design is by Event Architecture, in collaboration with Hans Engelbrecht and Margriet Visser (de Groene Stap).
debra at 2:26 | | post to del.icio.us
Awesome post!!!
Comment by Duane — February 27, 2007 @ 0:22
What a interesting project, what a exciting blog. I’m glad to find it!!!
Comment by Anke — March 14, 2007 @ 19:02
I love the idea of growing food locally. When is The Edible City coming to Toronto…many people here would appreciate the idea
Comment by Gabrielle — April 7, 2007 @ 4:04