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RESEARCH POSTER - Edible Toledo: Designing for Food Security
(2017)
  • Sara Khorshidifard
Abstract
Imagine America where all ex-decrepit landscapes are food-generator containers. Architectural design can pose such new ways to see, interpret, and transform the built environments. Optimism can subsist amid and beyond the imperfections in urban-rural continuums. Food insecurity epidemics and leftover spaces is a twofold with latent capacities. The American Rust Belt cities are particularly trapped and plagued with many such abandoned, idled
and dormant sites. Trances of possibility are yet to be discovered to turn the former dilapidated zones into vigorous food-productive vessels. These images are bent on alleviating hunger and blight. With optimism, architecture, too, can espouse more meaningfulness, attempting to address social problems. Doubts can subsist. Does architecture have a chance? Elicited archetypes reframe new questions: Can architecture, through its
particularities, react and innovate in realms of stern social complications? How can design (and construction) more methodically affect food-security outcomes? Northwest Ohio is measured as a food-insecure region and Rust-Belt Toledo has copious blight. Architectural design can trigger imagination through visionary responses. Inspired by multidisciplinary undertakings and social, environmental, and economic visionaries, the tangible viewing remains in the service of seeing further intangible possibilities.
Publication Date
Fall October 13, 2017
Citation Information
Sara Khorshidifard. "RESEARCH POSTER - Edible Toledo: Designing for Food Security" (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sara_khorshidifard/9/
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