Denis Trayman & Daniel Goldblat // The End of Hunger: Food & Selfishness
May 20th, 2020
Assignment #2 // Collage Theme Question
Food & Selfishness
1.3 billion tons per year of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally.
Enough to feed 26 billion people!
Or in other words, Enough to feed the whole world population for 4 days.
How does our consumption affect our food habits?
Are our resources private? Or public?
Can we imagine an alternative way to share our resources? What if food was free? Or a monopoly?
Food is considered a pleasure and sometimes a luxury. But what if it had a bad taste? Would we treat it differently?
We are now storing food, almost compulsively. But what if we could get the exact amount needed per a person each day?
June 18th, 2020
Assignment #3 // Speculative Concept and service, Speculative Video
"Absolute Equality" in Food
video
The world's food supply is decreasing and the population is increasing. Looking at the problem, world leaders were faced with the concerning problem of food waste. worldwide there are 1.3 billion tons per year of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally.
Imagining a society where all people get their nutrition through a feeding tube, all people get exactly the amount of nutrition they need, not more, not less.
We ask ourselves how our lives would change if we were to shift the energy we put into preparing, buying, and consuming food towards other aspects of our life, challenging the role of culinary arts. Moreover, we ask ourselves what is the price of this notion towards "equality".