{"id":3929,"date":"2014-10-07T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:25:35","slug":"future-topophagies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2014\/10\/07\/future-topophagies\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Topophagies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some images from a workshop I co-organized with Valentine Cadieux and Steve Dietz through the University of Minnesota and Northern Lights<\/a> in Minneapolis, MN at\u00a0the end of September 2014. The workshop was staged in conjunction with the show thinking making living <\/em><\/a>at the Nash Gallery at the U of MN. We couldn’t have run this without the generous coordination of Christine Baeumler. And I’d have been helpless without Valentine Cadieux. It was\u00a0\u00a0an exciting, fast, and very productive process. I *think* everyone had a good\u00a0time and got a lot out of the experience.<\/p>\n

We drew from a set of seven constraints, imagined future picnics based on those constraints, and at the end of day two, prototyped the food and packaging we’d use if we were to make such a public event. I will be writing up the scenarios shortly.<\/p>\n

While these participants came from art, social science, history, ecocriticism, architecture, biology, climatology, and politics, I think you could run this workshop with a wide variety of people and publics, and turn up relevant, and resonant results.<\/p>\n

Participants: \u00a0Stephen Sebestyen,\u00a0Laura Bigger,\u00a0Ter\u00e9z Iacovino,\u00a0Matthew Tucker,\u00a0Sarah Peters,\u00a0Cam Gordon,\u00a0Tracey Deutsch, Karen Moss,\u00a0Sandra Teitge,\u00a0Aaron Dysart,\u00a0Andrea Steudel,\u00a0Molly Balcom Raleigh,\u00a0Christine Baeumler,\u00a0Kenny Blumenfeld, \u00a0Shanai Matteson,\u00a0Sarah Nassif,\u00a0Molly Reichert,\u00a0Ryan Seibold,\u00a0Bunmi Odumuye,\u00a0<\/span>Emily Stover, interns\u00a0Andrea, Marie, and Della,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0Janaki Ranpura (in spirit and email)<\/p>\n

Images: M Zurkow, V Cadieux and Sarah Nassif.
\nMore images by Laura Bigger here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t