Above is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary from East Bay Pictures: Edible City which unfolds the story of the people who, in response to the global food crisis, have initiated a grassroots movement of growing a local and sustainable food system in the Bay Area of San Francisco.
Edible City is currently in production and [...]

New media artist Esther Polak continues her journey across Nigeria executing her locative media art project Nomadic Milk that uses GPS technology to track the routes of a primary source of nutrition: milk. It is now possible to follow the project’s progress daily (or almost, depending on internet connection) from Nigeria at the blog space [...]

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Date: August 9 2009, Location Beiteddine Festival, Bierut, Lebanon.
“images of the ‘new middle east’ ” is a commission by international artist and composer Guy Manoukian for an upcoming concert in Beiteddine, Lebanon. Beiteddine Festival is one of the oldest and finest festivals in the Middle East and is held in a 200-year-old palace in [...]

Frame form the film “HOME” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. 2009
Food is indisputably one of the biggest challenges facing cities in 21st century that is seldom discussed. As cities grow at an unprecedented rate, food prices hit the roof and demand outweighs supply. So what can cities do to reintegrate food systems into the urban context? How [...]

Marije Vogelzang and Joerg Suermann, © Rosa Merk, Courtesy DMY Berlin
Marcia Caines met with the self-proclaimed ‘eating designer’ Mariie Vogelzang (Proef), Dutch designer and food specialist at the 7th edition of the DMY design festival in Berlin where Marije prepared a Dutch Design Dinner; an interactive, colour-coded experience based on the designer’s research on colour [...]