IDC Colloq: Fair food and systems of local production

The class will explore the green market as a model for possible new local economic markets and practices. Learning from Food Justice movement and community gardens, structuring alternative economic models and communities of engagement, the students will examine the value chains, production and consumption and the integrated ecologies of sustainable living. How can the examples of Co-ops, Community Shared Agriculture etc, help us create models for integrated ecological systems for other design disciplines? The students will do fieldwork and ethnographic research, mapping, hands-on work and cooking up new local modes of production for fair food, which may also influence fair fashion, community services and models of social innovation.