Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Edible Crafts – Table Vivant: experiments in resilient creative cultural practices ==== Edible Crafts is a speculative design experiment exploring how the combination of food, craft and science can lead to resilient models for design. ECR looks at fully consumable, closed-loop design using edible and compostable materials sourced from local ecosystems.The experiment focuses on the table setting in the domestic space. Informed by culinary traditions, rituals of eating and the landscape, ECR designs a complete dining experience using a limited number of shared ingredients. In Table Vivant onomaterial design concepts based on food source are explored to design edible tableware for a table landscape that includes food, textiles, and edible solar cells (Temporary photoElectric Digestopians), all produced with locally sourced ingredients. The table landscape serves as a medium to communicate principles of resilience and interdependency. <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/8430895369/" title="leaky-loop-2 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8075/8430895369_08194fe5af_b.jpg" width="1024" height="380" alt="leaky-loop-2"></a></html> The project has 2 complementary goals: * to explore how food generates both calorific (Joules) & electrical energy (Watts) & how this parallel can be taken into account when evaluating ecosystems. * to learn from traditional crafts, biology, biomimicry & food science to design environmentally resilient cultural experiences. The starting point are plants with properties suitable for making food, textiles & solar cells (e.g berries). Local ethno-culinary traditions, biological & ecological context of the chosen plant is studied and a scenario for an ‘edible’ dining environment is designed. The experiment should be transferrable to different localities in Europe. * [[edible_alchemy| Project overview]] * Instructions on how to create your own [[resilience_thinking_diy | Resilience Thinking workshop]] * [[a_leaky_loop|A Leaky Loop]], the experience of Temporary photoElectric Digestopians * [[silients]] a conversation about the word 'resilience' ==== Further reading ==== * Interview with Carole Collet: http://www.3lectromode.com/?p=343 * MA Future Textiles, Central Saint Martins, University of London: http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/ma-textile-futures/ Table Vivant is the work of [[http://www.carolecollet.com|Carole Collet]] (MA Textile Futures Course, CSM) and [[http://www.bartaku.net|Bartaku]] (FoAM) with the help of the Future Textiles CSM students.Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International resilients/edible_crafts.1360655824.txt.gz Last modified: 2013-02-12 07:57by alkan