<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stefani Bardin here following up on Amanda’s wonderful launch of Food + Art + Tech Month. I’m an artist and academic and my focus is on the food system through myriad lenses including science, biology, medicine, art, tech, design and community outreach. Out of the gate I’m going to start talking about a Food + Climate Change project that I’m currently involved with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For
many New Yorkers our relationship to food is filtered through the lens of
restaurants, grocery stores, bodegas, street food carts and trucks. As Carolyn Steel, author of <i class="">Hungry City</i> writes, “F<span style="background-color: white;" class="">ood arrives on our plates as if by magic, and we
rarely stop to wonder how it might have got there”.</span></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;" class="">The Soil
Food Web = the pathways of connectivity between the soil, the weather, plants,
animals and human that participate in our food ecosystems – is so important in
understanding the role we play in how are food is grown (and ultimately
cultivated, prepared and distributed) and its impact on our health and the
health of our environment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1C1C1C;background:#FDFDFD" class="">The
relationship(s) of these systems and modalities are the backbone of the <i class="">No Free Lunch</i> mapping project – started by myself and Marina Zurkow at <a href="http://tisch.nyu.edu/itp" class="">ITP</a> at
NYU in the Spring of 2015 – an endeavor born out of our respective art
practices that look at food systems, climate change, fossil fuels, science and eating.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1C1C1C;background:#FDFDFD" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class="">In the
span of a day and a half more than 30 ITP + Food Studies students from NYU,
scholars, artists, engineers, farmers, technologists and designers presented
very short presentations about their work and research that addresses the
systemic issues we are trying to tackle, solve and map. We pivoted off these
presentations into breakout sessions to begin to parse ways of mapping the
context and content of these issues, who is doing really interesting work to
address these issues and what is the best way to represent this information. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1C1C1C;background:#FDFDFD" class="">You
can read about the participants here:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1C1C1C;background:#FDFDFD" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span><a href="http://www.nofreelunchitp.net/" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class="">http://www.nofreelunchitp.net/</a></p><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class="">The </span><a href="http://ipk.nyu.edu/" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class="">Institute of Public Knowledge at NYU</a><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class="">has given us support (over two years) </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class="">to create a 3-Dimensional and interactive map
that explains and explores the Soil Food Web of New York City (and the immediate
farm regions), modes of food access and distribution, the role of natural
resources and their vulnerabilities related to climate change and how all of
these components of our Food System can be accessed and understood as a related
entity.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class=""><font color="#1c1c1c" class=""> The other layer of this map is
an aggregate of artists, activists, farmers, designers, technologists, food
organizations who are tackling – head on – ways to improve upon current
systems, mitigate fall out from climate related collateral damage and connect
our communities so individuals understand the Food System but more importantly
their role in it and how they can participate. Our goal is to grow the project beyond NYC - but we’re starting with what we know, where we live and our already existing networks.</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);" class="">Here is the link to the working group:</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://ipk.nyu.edu/ipk-working-groups/foodandthecity" class="">https://ipk.nyu.edu/ipk-working-groups/foodandthecity</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are so interested in hearing from you all on my many levels including knowledge you may have about great interventions currently happening in the food system. </div><div class="">Any experience you may have had around mapping/visualizing/building a platform for such a fluid, mercurial and unwieldy topic?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m so looking forward to the conversation this month with all of you and am really grateful to have the chance to participate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stefani</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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