In public space we trust
Created in Helsinki (Finland) in 2011, Restaurant Day is a one-day event that celebrates food culture. Everybody can participate setting up a pop-up restaurant in a park, on a street corner, in a sitting room or anywhere else. Next Restaurant Day will be on 19th August 2012 and will invade new cities.
Photos by Tuomas Sarparanta, Roy Bäckström, Henri Ilanen, Hanna Anttila and Heidi Uutela - All rights reserved.
At Dinner. In Three Acts _ It happened during Public Design Festival in a place in Milan. Story of the blind dinner by MakerLab, told in pictures.
Video by Davide Todini _ All rights reserved
In a place in Milan food is the leitmotiv. MakerLab presents A dinner in three acts: a new experience of eating. For three days 12 partecipants will experiment a different way of having a meal.
Cook for Good _ Images of the would-be cooks of stuffed tomatoes.
How to convert an old malt factory into a rooftop farm? Take inspiration from Berlin where in September three young people started the planning of the project Frisch vom Dach (Fresh from the roof), an aquaponics farm in Schöneberg district: both fish and vegetables will be produced and distributed on-site. And while the research of funds is going on, on the roof now there is a small prototype out of an upcycled shipping container, which is currently producing fish and vegetables.
The improkitchen is both a cooking space and a mobile stage, designed by the Swiss duo Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, for the food performances of Eva Maria Küpfer and Stefania Grubenmann.
Until 29th January 2012 at NAiM/Bureau Europa in Maastricht (The Netherlands), REcentre features the exhibition Re-Action! Common Grounds, presenting best practices of bottom-up initiatives which can lead to a possible, sustainable and community-driven revolution.
Designers Anna Rosinke and Maciej Chmara of Kollectiv Stadtpark have recently developed the project Mobile Gasfreundschaft (Mobile Hospitality) which pays special attention to the responsibility and the self-initiative in public space. They have been touring Austria carrying their wheelbarrow kitchen, table and ten stools (designed by them) to sit and share dinner with spontaneous passers-by.
Do you want to learn how to brew your own beer in public spaces? Ask Henriette Waal with her Outdoor Brewerey.
From 22 to 26 November in Verona (Italy) within the frame of OniricaLab - the Makers Festival, the Association Fuoriscala invites students, professionals and simple curious people to take part in TASTEFULL by Studio FormaFantasma, a workshop to investigate the concept of food in all its creative interpretations.
Official instructions for the Permanent Breakfast _ One person creates a breakfast event in a public space. The invited people (usually 4) commit themselves to organize another public breakfast with different friends in a different place as soon as possible, and so on and so forth. Following the snowball principle, there would be 1.6 million people publicly breakfasting no later than on the tenth day.
Join in!
Dekalb Market is officially opened! Located at Fulton Mall near the Dekalb subway stop in New York (USA), the market is made from 22 salvaged shipping containers re-appropiated by local entrepreneurs and artists, with gardens, cafes, restaurants, retail stores, an incubator farm and an internet radio station. The new community point created by Urban Space will also host events and performances.
Eating local and meeting locals. Eat With Me is a social networking site that allows you to meet new people in your neighbourhood by organising and attending events and sharing a meal together. It is designed and developed by Liisa Vurma, Jaanus Torp, Thomas Vaht and Bethany Jones. The instructions are simple: register, look for an event or add your own dinner party.
