In Studio we were assigned to visit The Cooper Hewitt Museum and go through their “Process Lad”. The fallowing is the documentation of this experience of creating an initial proposal.
1-Value: Health
2-Question: How might we increase access to healthy food?
3-Design Tactics:
- Playground: Places for fun, not just for kids.
- Community Kitchen: Food is a rich record of stories and culture.
My idea consist of creating a park and open community kitchen facility, which possesses it’s own garden, to help introduce families and young children to healthy, wholesome and multicultural foods.
4-Record The Process: Unfortunately the pens the museums use to record the process were not functioning therefor this step was not completed.
5-Place: Parking Lot
The fallowing is what I believe to be necessary additional information needed to make this proposal productive and empowering:
- Information on a particular city, neighbourhood, and community in which this could be a meaningful and enriching project.
- A better understanding on how a community kitchen can support itself and how it would procure additional produce the those originating from the facilities garden.
- Information on how to best advertise this space in local areas as to foster a meaningful use of the park, kitchen and garden.
