LIa Mondavi / fall 2018 HAA 92R Design Speculations seminar
This project visually analyzes fine restaurants through the narrative established over the course of a meal in order to capture novel approaches to sustainability, seasonality, and locality as traits critical to the future of our global food system. Sustainability in this project is twofold. First, there is the issue of what restaurants are doing to specifically reduce waste, source locally and seasonally, and focus on ingredients that have less of an environmental impact to grow, harvest and produce. Second, these restaurants each take a particular approach to contributing to the narrative surrounding global food system sustainability and the need to make changes to our current process of production and distribution to ensure its longevity and efficacy for future generations. Four dishes are served up via drawn diagrams that are based on compiled data from various sources that present numerical indications of sustainability of each meal. Each drawn series hinges between representation of the immediate and edible elements of the dish served and the tethering of these elements as representations, themselves, of larger shifts in our food system at a global scale.
