Samstag 13. April 2013

ab 11:00

Pirmasenser Strasse 18,

vor dem “Unicat – Kunst zum Verlieben”

67655 Kaiserslautern

Bringt Freunde, Getränke, Essen, Tischdeckchen, Kännchen Kaffee, Stühle und Tische mit.

Fragen werden gerne von Leo unter +4369914669747 beantwortet.

Permanent Breakfast in the north of Berlin.

In the framework of a neighbourhood project there was a breakfast chain started this spring. the aim of the initiative is to explore the Wedding (local area) and to invite bypassers to join the action, and to become a wedding-breakfaster.

http://www.quartiersmanagement-berlin.de/Der-Wedding-fruehstueckt-Permanent-Breakfast.4202.0.html

On Saturday November 12th 2011, six Lebanese friends gathered in Ramlet el Baida for a permanent breakfast. Deprived from open public spaces in the country, we chose one of the surviving public beaches in the country ! In Lebanon and especially Beirut, beaches are turning into exclusive private beach clubs. With yummy labneh, zaatar, foul and balila, we celebrated open public spaces and Dima’s and Pia’s Scorpio birthdays on a sunny November morning, and enjoyed the beach with kites and Poi !

City as Lab NYC: Market Cities

Public Space and Food Networks
NINT 5361: CRN 6423, Section A
The New School
Faculty: Adriana Young

Taught in collaboration with
City as Lab Beirut – Market Housing
Affordable Housing and Food Security
American University of Beirut
ARCH 304c: Vertical Design Studio C
Faculty: J. Matthew Thomas & Bernard Mallat

Course Themes:

Local Food Security; Urban Agriculture; Infrastructures and Networks of Food Economies; Systems of Sustainability; Food as nexus for community building, activation of public space, education, urban revitalization; Public Space (temporary interventions, designing without building); Mapping Urban Networks; Play as an urban design, research, educational and community building tool

Course Description:
The city is a dynamic system.  The movement of energy, food and people place similar constraints and burdens on the urban fabric. Market Cities is a collaborative design research seminar based simultaneously in Beirut and New York City that focuses on mapping, diagramming and improving the quality of life and civic engagement surrounding the production and consumption of local agriculture and food products.  By mapping the food networks that sustain global cities like Beirut and NYC, we will analyze the resilience and opportunities for increased sustainability around food production and distribution.  Our case study will be the locally produced food networks in both cities, in particular the social, built and ecological networks connected to the Union Square farmers’ market in New York and the Souk El Tayeb market in downtown Beirut.  While students in Beirut and NYC will engage in researching the food networks of both cities, after the midpoint of the semester, students will diverge to tackle two complementary design problems.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Part I:
AUB and TNS students will collaborate on mapping, diagramming and addressing the quality life and civic engagement surrounding the production and consumption of local agriculture and food products for New York City and Beirut. Students will uncover the urban operations of food within the region, exposing flows, metabolisms, systems and economic revenues that will feed into their future design inquiries. A preliminary look at research activities includes:

a. Visualizing food consumption patterns in relationship to home and school
b. Organization of a community event: Permanent Breakfast
c.  Researching local/regional food products and its production, consumption and distribution
d. Mapping a food network

Part II:

NYC: Students in NYC will create layered mappings and diagrams of physical and social infrastructures surrounding food networks in NYC and Beirut.  They will collaborate with their colleagues in Beirut to understand issues of food security, distribution, interface and access, and embeddedness within other cultural and civic engagement.   Students will research case studies and begin to experiment with ways to alter the built environment, including creating virtual infrastructures, temporary programs, and installations that layer new opportunities for criticality, activity, connectivity and transparency onto existing sites.
Beirut: Students will design a temporary live/grow pod for farmers operating at Union Square’s NYC Green Market. This exploration will require partnering with a colleague at Parsons as they envision temporary, mobile, affordable living opportunities to facilitate local farmers and their lifestyle. Expected output includes a scaled model, drawings and operational mappings

Part III:

NYC: Students will expand and apply their spatial research from Parts I and II towards designing new site programming including temporary installations, public events and virtual layers (e.g. mobile games or apps) that can be implemented in both NYC and Beirut.  Students will  work in small interdisciplinary teams to select a specific site challenge within the local food economy of NYC and design and prototype an intervention in the form of an event, temporary installation, or a game.  Students are encouraged to create new opportunities for the public to render transparent the local and global food networks that shape their city, and introduce new resources for people to understand and support the local food economy.

Beirut: The final exploration for this studio will bring the students back to Beirut in designing housing and food facilities at BIEL. Working in collaboration with Souk el Tayeb, the students will envision this downtown urban site as an opportunity for affordable housing in close proximity to food production, consumption and distribution. This is on the heels of Souk el Tayeb’s relocation of their Saturday morning market and the launch of their “EcoMarket” project at BIEL, in the spring 2011.

Wrap-Up:
The students from Parsons will be coming to Beirut in early June for a joint presentation and research exchange: Market Cities/Market Housing: Affordable Housing and Food Security for NYC + Beirut

See Source: http://cityaslab.tumblr.com/courseplan

El próximo domingo 13 de febrero vamos a celebrar el segundo aniversario de DC. Ese día haremos un reconocimiento a los distinto espacios que el evento ha ocupado mediante una bicicletada. Como saben somos un grupo que se solidariza con el movimiento que promueve la bicicleta como medio de transporte autosustentable para Puerto Rico. Con el apoyo de los grupos que abogan por esta causa en nuestra isla queremos convocarlos a que luego del desayuno, hagamos la ruta Desayuno Calle.

Esta vez estaremos ocupando unos de los predios remanentes(ver foto aérea) entre Miramar y el centro de convenciones. Estos terrenos verdes, que quizás desaparezcan para convertirse en parkings para el Dept. de Justicia , sirven de transición espontánea entre la monumentalidad genérica del Sheraton/parking y la escala residencial/peatonal de Miramar. Por tanto quisiéramos habitar uno de estos lotes y hacernos muchas mas preguntas sobre el mismo.

Como funciona:

10am. Comienzo de desayuno. Esta vez estaremos cocinando revoltillo, pancakes y grilled cheese. Puedes traer huevos(los que vayas a consumir) y lo que quieras compartir para acompañar.

1pm. Recorrido en bicicleta por los distintos espacios que ha ocupado el DC. Terminaremos la ruta en Piñones.

Recuerda: Trae tu sillita o manta, tus utensilios, taza y plato para comer. NO DESECHABLES.

GRACIAS A TODOS

See full post in german language here

http://www.desayunoconviandantes.com/

http://www.desayunoconviandantes.com/

También estaremos haciendo trueque de libros y herramientas. Trae tus libros y/o cosas(herramientas de crear, cocinar, bricolaje, etc…) para intercambiar con los demás.

Luego del desayuno continúa la fiesta, aquí les dejo con una breve descripción de lo que estará pasando en la calle:

“Desayuno calle abrirá el día con uno de sus típicos desayunos, habrán más de 60 artesanos bazaar de las artes a cargo de las instituciones arteSanturce, actividades educativas en las artes, juegos musicales para niños y adultos, canciones infantiles, cine al aire libre con videos de artistas, charlas y conferencias de reconocidos artistas plásticos, tai chi, exhibición arquitectónica Sentir Santurce, degustación de comidas de los restaurantes Lima, Delirio, Chayote, La Casita, Augusto, Bistro, Deli , entre otros, y una vibrante tarima con espectáculos en todas las disciplinas de las artes, inlcuyendo danza, teatro y música. Entre las presentaciones contaremos con la pieza de teatro Historia del Hombre que se convirtió en Perro, Casamiento Jíbaro, show de trovadores, talleres de baile y presentaciones de las compañías Andanza, Ballets de San Juan y Ballet Concierto, presentación musical del Coro de Niños de San Juan, talleres de bomba, conjuntos de jazz, escenas de zarzuela y mucho más, como fin de fiesta un gran bombazo y rumba final en la calle.”

Nos vemos para desayunar.

GRACIAS A TODOS

www.desayunocalle.blogspot.com