YOU ARE HUNGRY: Mapping an Edible Urban Hackney -
01–30 Sep 2010 / Space Studios, London
Can you feed the 2,150 urban residents, that live within 500 metres of
the SPACE gallery, using the 25 hectares of land that houses them?
“YOU ARE HUNGRY” is a proposal to investigate this question through
the creation of an Edible Map” which displays the potential
‘agricultural’ yields the immediate streets, parks and grassed areas
around the Space Gallery could produce.
This will allowing the itinerant urban resident or visitor to
visualise what percentage of their current diet could be achieved
using locally grown food within a particular session. The basic
question of local food growing is linked to the wider crucial debate
surrounding the need to reduce our carbon footprint and create
sustainable cities. It is widely accepted that food production,
distribution and consumption are major contributors to current
environmental dystopias. However, Scientists, National Governments and
International Policy makers currently lead this debate. Their currency
is Green House Gas emissions, Carbon equivalents and a wealth of
technological data, which sits in the abstract, at odds against the
rhythms and routines of our hourly and daily food consuming
obligations.
Therefore, there is a need for artistic practices to respond to the
data-pollution of the dominant political and scientific discourses
with visualisation tools, which facilitate educated, provocative and
creative interventions. The Edible Map is one such visualisation tool.
Drawing over the usual cadastral A-Z map, The Edible Map intervens
with new signposts, icons and graphics that translate ideas of “local
food” into tangible, interactive and playful narratives, thus
reconnecting people to a sense of place through food growing.
There are two ways that you can interact with the project. First, as
part of a psychogeographical food walk through the streets of East
London during June 2010, accompanied by Mikey Tomkins (dates and times
to be specified but you can leave a request at
mikeytomk...@gmail.com). Second, to view, comment and record your
opinions about the potential for food growing in East London at the
digital version of the edible map. This is available at
http://www.mikeytomkins.co.uk/work/edible-maps/.
Mikey Tomkins, local beekeeper and PhD student at the University of
Brighton has created the project.
There will be 20 places available. The walk also includes a visit to
the rooftop hives of the Space gallery. This visit is only available
to the first 8 walkers!
Schedule and booking details TBC
http://www.mikeytomkins.co.uk/work/edible-maps/
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