Appreciation and study of some works on the theme of food waste.
1. Would you not eat a vegetable because it's ugly?
Discrimination is not only relevant to humans. Discrimination against unsightly vegetables is treated like rubbish simply because of their unattractive appearance, not their nutritional value. This leads to a huge amount of wasted food, and the amount of food wasted could feed many hungry people among us. This series of posters of ugly human-like vegetables attempts to shed light on this related issue.
2.Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers
zeger reyers envisaged a fully equipped kitchen, which is set on the floor of the gallery. A chef was preparing snacks and serving drinks to the opening visitors. When more than half of the food has been served and the dishwasher is filled and turned on, the chef leaves, seemingly only temporarily, perhaps for a cigarette or a bathroom break.
Once outside, the kitchen began to slowly tilt and turn, spinning a full shaft for about fifteen minutes or so. This continued throughout the performance as everything in the cube space began to slide and then fall onto the opposite wall.
This performance installation deals with the notion of change and decay associated with food, highlighting the ways in which we unconsciously waste food. Here, our familiar symbolic units have become rebellious and now turn against us.
3. SEALED TASTE
The designer of this project explores the materiality of food waste by today's youth. Nowadays, with the advent of high value food, the desire to take pictures of food has become more important than tasting the food itself, and many restaurants are staging food waste. I collected the wasted dessert creams and food scraps and processed them into a new grease fused with wax liquid and paper pulp to make a new biodegradable wax material.
4.The Leftover Project 2050 SURVIVAL
The designer is concerned with the problem of low-priced food waste, and the idea that "price is not a measure of waste, there is no division between more and less waste", and the visual representation of the breath of life is given to the typeface to convey sensible values to consumers.
Social Status Quo: to measure the importance of food and the severity of waste from the perspective of money.
Design Purpose: to advocate people to value food resources, and to explore a solution from the perspective of values.
They analyze from three aspects: the story (behind), the value of thinking (breath), and the problem of "solving" (reborn), in order to find the possibilities to design. With different appearances and different carriers to transmit new values.
Life is synonymous with value a symbol of equality. If food has life, will we still use price as the sole criterion to measure the importance of food? We give food the vital sign of breath, and its binary movement pattern coincides with the Morse code. Through a combination with the font, the low-priced food resources send an SOS distress call to the viewer.
Both graphics and fonts are made up of Morse codes, each with its own relevant meanings. In a flat dimension, it also has the concept of a voice that expresses the abandoned food in the form of "leftovers".
In the presentation part of the project, 3D printing is used to present breathing in a so-called two-and-a-half dimensional medium. It is hoped that the viewer can understand the concept we convey and at the same time feel the fluctuation of life brought by the characters information.
‘BEHIND' is presented in the form of books, which records the back of food and design, and the occurrence of the viewer's flipping action represents the process of revealing the image and reading the essential information.
they take rice, sandwiches (crust), and French fries as the objects of communication for our concept and draw up a set of algorithms that can be translated into Morse code based on the frequency of their breathing. The viewer interacts with food by thinking about their own food waste behavior, and the food will respond to the viewer's deep thinking.
Breathing is food ‘s language, and we created this cross-dimensional emotional installation to allow people to reexamine and rethink their relationship with food waste.
All three packages are printed with different Morse information. They are "..." 、“— — —”、“…” In order to discuss what kind of information people really care about on food packaging, we adopt the design idea of visible and invisible to weaken the text information on the package. Is the resource itself more important or the price given more important?
In order to alleviate the food resources crisis in 2050, FAO of the United Nations drafted the relevant regulations on the community for the protection of food resources. After 194 Member States, one member organization and two associate members voted to adopt the Treaty on the emergency protection of food resources. This legally binding treaty sets forth the new concept of "reasonable waste rate". Countries and regions establish a database of reasonable waste rate of international food resources based on local food safety. At the beginning of the bill, it caused great social repercussions and serious polarization of comments. In this context, a new type of sustainable operation system has been born, that is, after people get food through consumption, if the unfinished food exceeds the standard of reasonable waste rate, they need to pay corresponding funds to show a kind of compensation for the unreasonable use of resources. These funds and unfinished food will also help those who go hungry, in order to solve the food problem. This dual oriented operation system not only leads to consumers thinking, but also drives the development of a new catering mode. More and more catering industries that advocate the concept of sustainable resource sharing gradually rise. In this model, the behavior aiming at the rational distribution of food resources is called the leftover meal plan.
They have reproduced the above virtual future plan from the consumer side, the transportation end, the recycling end and the "rebirth" end, and reappeared the system process which is not human relations and human relations from the current standpoint to the consumers in real appearance.
5. Fridge log
The freshness of the fridge stretches the time threshold between edible and inedible food, causing people to procrastinate and forget about food, making it easier to waste food that is already rubbish than to waste it. Refrigerators, which are meant to keep food fresh, often become "coffins full of decay", and although the life of food is stretched, it cannot escape being wasted. This project looks at food waste. By looking at the phenomenon of refrigerators causing more waste, the project examines the relationship between the physical, psychological and intrinsic meaning of food. It is a multi-dimensional narrative that uses the small to see the big, making it easier for the viewer to empathise with what they can do to reduce food waste, and to further explore the social issue of the changing nature of food for people that leads to more waste.
6. Best Before
In modern society, when food is labelled with an 'expiry date', it means that it is on a 'countdown to death' and faces the prospect of being destroyed while still in an edible state. ‼️ We set the expiry date for food based on human perceptions but should the expiry date for food be modified by human intervention?The authors propose a 'duration of taste'.
The author proposes the concept of "expiry date", explores the public's perception of the expiry date of food and the resulting topics of food waste and consumption perception, and presents the visual design from the perspectives of both processed and raw food forms, triggers a new perception of the "expiry date" of food. The visual design is presented from the perspectives of both processed and raw food forms, provoking a rethinking of the public's perception of the "expiry date" of food.
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