Exhibit at the Rochester Regional Community Design Center
Now through June 26
Gallery Hours 9-5, Monday - Friday and by appt.
This looks fascinating and I hope to get there next week. The promotional materials describe the exhibit as follows:
Eating is consequential. It not only incorporates food into the body, but the process of growing, distributing, processing, marketing and disposing of food also shapes landscapes. However, the consequences of eating from the contemporary industrial food system are obscured by distance and complexity. This installation reveals the connection between the food we eat and the landscape we make. It identifies critical issues in the Central New York food system and offers a series of design proposals aimed at making a more sustainable and socially just food system.
The installation is the work of Landscape Architecture students at the SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. The projects are organized around two tables: one made of milk and salt representing the food history of Syracuse as well as the primary agricultural product of the region, and a table growing fresh greens with a display of design proposals for remaking the system. The designs present a range of strategies for producing food through urban agriculture, using food to activate public space, transforming food deserts, restoring regional infrastructure of processing and distribution and integrating supermarkets into urban neighborhoods.
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