For most of our existence on earth, we’ve lived in productive landscapes, we live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia [an artificial term of natural connection coined by Carolyn Steel: si: food, topos: place], food controls most of how we live our life. It’s important to show that alternatives to how we live our everyday, do exist, especially in a time when our cities are in crisis, we must develop new models that answer some of the big questions that yet to this day, remain unanswered.
How do we rebuild food systems for us to achieve resilience? In short, how do we update to Sitopia v2.0?
- this design proposal was submitted for the UIA 2021 RIO International Ideas Competition -