Superused food,
2012 Architects host
a freegan dinner
July 4, 2007
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Freegan designers trapped in a 2012 iPod ad.
Normally when architects invite you to dinner they don’t advertise that they’re planning on serving you trash. Completely unbound by convention, 2012 Architects held a freegan dinner last night and were rather loose-lipped about the fact that they didn’t spend one single euro-sous on the organic ingredients. The venue, a visual feast of appropriated material. The menu, a culinary ride in the Wayback Machine.
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Food and table design, 2012 Architects
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Not so much cop killer as soup bringer
The 3 course menu was made exclusively from vegetables, organically grown, not-so-organically distributed and then abandoned behind one of Rotterdam’s premier food boutiques, designated trash.
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Once you go black you never go back, squatter crockery
2012 Architects have distinguished themselves as experts in repurposing waste building materials in their architectural designs. Together with Ed van Hinte they published Superuse, (Constructing new architecture by shortcutting material flows), a readable resource book on (waste) materials that I can highly recommend to every designer, architect and the students of these fields. Unlike other architect’s books we know that Smell Like Xtra Large, you will actually USE this book, it won’t just hang around as an inadvertent door jamb slash flower press. The Superuse website is an up-to-date project blog of exemplary materials appropriation.
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But the real treat was the unwarranted butt-nuzzling.
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Trash, it’s what’s for dinner.
- Superuse, the website
- Superuse, the book.
I say buy it. It’s € 19,50 well-spent. - 2012 Architecten
2012 Architects practice design in various disciplines; graphic design, lighting, pieces of furniture, interiors and buildings. We use materials previously defined as waste as a point of departure for our design work. - Recyclicity (in Dutch, unfortch – but you’ll get the pictch) This is a Dutch language recycling network designed to connect waste materials that could be used in building and interior design, to architects and designers. The emphasis is on decreasing the transport loop between waste and new (building) projects.
- Studio Hergebruik (Re-Use Studio)
- Atelier Bomdesign: billbirdhouses, booklamps etc…
- More Culiblog images from the dinner
- Stephen Colbert weighs in on Freegans sayin’,
‘Way to stick it to the Man, Freegans’ - The New York Times article on Freegans that got everyone so giddy
- Culiblog weighs in on Freegans
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Jules hands Chef Manuela the phone. Busy busy.
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Gimme some sugar, Sugar
July 3, 2007
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Things about to get sticky at the van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven (Jan 2007) Sugar Storm by Zoro Feigl
At Amsterdam’s Rietveld Academy exam show this weekend visitors could tuck into this beautiful candy floss installation by Zoro Feigl. Aside from the tip of the cap to Fischli & Weiss, Roman Signer and Pippilotti Rist, I love how the audience can just reach out and grab a wispy cloud of floss from the air. Give the people what they want, Zoro.
If this were a Dutch language blog I could make a joke about Zoro reassuring me that the sugar in the installation was ‘cane’ sugar and not White Death. The Rietveld Academy is named after You-know-who, Mr. Sit on my face – red, yellow and blue (and black). Raw cane sugar is rietsuiker from the Dutch for reed. (What Dutch lacks in sheer vocabulary, it makes up for in poetics.) Folks stood around for ages mesmerised, plucking sugar clouds from the air, catching sugar highs, getting excited about the high-speed interactive cloud watching. It’s like watching fireworks. Bravo.
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Lab meating Friday
food, art & science
snacks & symposium
June 28, 2007
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Listen up, why am I pink? Tissue Culture and Art’s Extra Ear 1/4 Scale, used entirely without permission
As part of the exhibition Genesis, The Art & Genomics Centre at the University of Leiden, in sweet collaboration with the Centraal Museum in Utrecht have organised a symposium on the subject of food, art and science. It’s going to be an exciting event with all that lab meat, ethics, art and highly controversial snacking. A more thrilling Friday evening is hard to imagine.
Marlein Overakker and Inez de Jong from Wandering Banquets are in charge of the evening’s alimentary entertainment. Chefs cum pioneering food designers, they know their way around the kitchen and have designed a menu of snacks that correspond seamlessly to the speakers. I’m last after all of those smart people, wondering if that makes me the icing on the cake…
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Victimless Leather Jacket, by Tissue Culture and Art, used entirely without permission
In preparation of my presentation in Dutch
(Smart + Dutch + Slanguage = Eeeeks!!!!)
I have been having the hardest time finding worthy Dutch translations for the following English words. Please feel free to help me out in the comments. The list reads like a poem, don’t you think?
whole foods = ?
plant based diet = ? (It’s not plantaardig…)
environmental impact = ?
resource intensive = ?
livestock population = veetelt populatie?
food technology = voedsel technologie
food scientist = voedsel wetenschapper
disconnected = vervreemd
nutrient = nutriënt?
nutrition = ?
nutritionism = ?
processed food = ?
encountered = ?
entitlement = ?
And not necessarily in that order.
Here’s the lineup:
- 19:00 – Opening
- 19:20 – 1st controversial snack
- 19:30 – Prof. Henk Haagsman, Meat Scientist, University of Utrecht
- 19:50 – Prof. Michiel Korthals, Ethicus, University of Wageningen
- 20:10 – short pause for thought and 2nd controversial snack
- 20:30 – Dr. Cor van der Weele, Ethicus, University of Wageningen
- 20.50 – 3rd controversial snack
- 21:00 – Debra Solomon, artist/designer/culiblog.org
- 21:20 – 4th controversial snack
- 21:30 Panel discussion thankfully w/moderator Annemiek Nelis: Prof. Henk Haagsman, Prof. Michiel Korthals, Dr. Cor van der Weele, Debra Solomon
Useful links:
- The lowdown from the Centraal Museum website in Dutch
Event begins at 19h sharp – remember, it’s organised by scientists.
Event costs € 15,- snacks and drinks included and registration is absolutely obligatory. Remember, scientists and philosphers are very serious about restrictions. - Art & Genomics Centre
Anne Kienhuis, scientific manager
Leiden Institute of Chemistry
Tel +31 (0)71 527 5782
Fax +31 (0)71 527 5274 - The Wandering Banquets website
- Tissue Culture and Art
- TCA’s Victimless Leather Jacket
- TCA’s extra ear 1/4 scale Is that for not listening to the whole story?
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