The city of taste - food for a brighter future

Purpose and goal:

The project aims to generate interest and mobilise resources for a future urban food supply chain that builds on technological and systemic achievements to respond to the future challenges facing the food industry in terms of public health, environmental challenges, resource use and global pressures. By looking at the food system from different perspectives and challenging today´s system, a conceivable and perhaps even probable future prototype will be developed that can be used to communicate and inspire efforts for a future more sustainable and creative food landscape.

Expected results and effects:

The project initially starts from a hypothetical prototype for urban food supply that focuses on a chronological scenario of how food in the urban environment of the future could be produced, refined, packaged and distributed. The project will develop a future prototype that is anchored within local actors, municipal administrations, NGOs, academia, entrepreneurs, students and other stakeholders.

The prototype will emerge as a joint work but form a basis for continued development and exploration. Approach and implementation:

The prototype development is based on workshop methodology, where the prototype is problematized from three different perspectives: cutting-edge technology, human needs and new business models. The development is an iterative process with a broad group of stakeholders. The final prototype can be designed as e.g. an animation, a film or website for an imagined service.

The prototype is developed to be inspiring and provocative and to invite dialogue. It will not only reproduce desirable functions in the imagined future but also unforeseen consequences of a changed system.