PROJECT 2
For this week studio we individually began to brainstorm ideas for suburban Paddington. Ideas developed for the interim presentation to be used as an impetus...
SCENE
The reality...
- Homogeneous community
- Mixture of students and middle to high-class income
- Mostly family homes
- Large homes with large yards
- Disposable income for consumerism
- Environmental issues with consumerism (waste, carbon footprint, buy without thinking-instantaneous satisfaction is needed)
- Generally no goods are produced at home (despite the availability of space)
- Inward, schizophrenic interactions with community - only short bursts at the only central location (Paddington Central)
- Community impeded by restriction of topography + traditions of rich on top of the hills and poor in the gullies
- Car-centric
STAGE
Intervention potential...
- Community farming/shared agricultural space (not necessarily for commercial gain)
- Allotments like European cities?
- To further the food agenda: provide labs for research and education for community
- Paddington Central as a theatre to celebrate food with other members of the community
- Lift the veil that conceals the process of food - production, storage, preserving, distribution, preparation, cooking, buying, eating
- If the future scenario was to be maintained - the building could be a sustainable hub, technologically enhanced to grow any food in any climate
- At least, until such time technology is capable of that building mass could be dedicated for an archive/vault to food - to educate and preserve the status of food as a fundamental necessity of life.
- A suburban botanical garden/farm (Botanical gardens facilitate scientific research and plant taxonomy as well as inviting members of the public to move across a site to learn about the vegetation, but also doubly act as a resting point, place for recreational activities, eating, read, perform, wed...)
- Green/food aqueduct: perhaps the intervention receives and distributes food by growing along a sort of 'green aqueduct' (along the old tram network?) - Similarly to Roman days this network supplies a town with an essential necessity. Focused around a collection point (Paddington Central)
- Facilitate sustainable practices i.e. grow food onsite at Paddington central or generate interest and provide know-how and tools for home grown food, riding bikes instead or catch the bus instead of driving, outdoor leisure/recreation instead of watching tv, wind/algae farm?,
- Markets to re-instate fair trading and community grown/made goods
- Food stalls?
- Cultural exchange
SCRIPT
Users and interaction with Paddington Central...
'Jenny' might go to Paddington Central to buy her groceries. Instead of buying goods from anti-competitive, monopolistic, mass produced corporations she can see that the tomato puree she is purchasing has been grown and pureed at the place she buys it from... in doing so, she is awakened to the fact that she (in the past) never knows where her food actually comes from. In this case - she can even get to know the man who grew the tomatoes..
- 'Peta' and 'John', her son, go to buy groceries. They also find a park in which to enjoy and spend the afternoon, meeting other children for John to play with.
- 'Mark' works in the Brisbane CBD and escapes from the concrete jungle to Paddington Central for a lunch break (by bike or bus). After parking his bike or getting off the bus he has a number of options available to him for a meal at varying cost brackets... restaurant, street food, supermarket. Where he eats it could vary also: with a view to the south over the city on a hill - above the centre, on the hill looking out over the rolling hills/farm/park space, in a restaurant or on a restaurant terrace. After walking past a restaurant kitchen and seeing what they cook, he decides to go into the restaurant and eat on the terrace. After lunch he still has a bit of time to kill before he is due back at work. He discovers the seed archive and learns a bit about the history of growing food. At the end, he decides to take the food process into his own hands, and buys pumpkin seeds from a farmer in the centre to grow at home.
- 'Lauren' has a small 2x2m 'allotment' at Paddington central that she shares with her neighbour. She rides her bike with a basket on the back to the allotment to collect some apples. She wants to make an apple pie for her date that night. After she has filled her basket with apples, she passes 'Peta' who is sitting in the shade of a tree, watching 'John'. 'Peta' offers 'Lauren' some money to buy a couple of apples for a snack. 'Lauren' agrees. That weekend, 'Lauren' decides to walk around the park with a basket of apples to sell to people relaxing or working.
SCENE
The reality...
- Homogeneous community
- Mixture of students and middle to high-class income
- Mostly family homes
- Large homes with large yards
- Disposable income for consumerism
- Environmental issues with consumerism (waste, carbon footprint, buy without thinking-instantaneous satisfaction is needed)
- Generally no goods are produced at home (despite the availability of space)
- Inward, schizophrenic interactions with community - only short bursts at the only central location (Paddington Central)
- Community impeded by restriction of topography + traditions of rich on top of the hills and poor in the gullies
- Car-centric
STAGE
Intervention potential...
- Community farming/shared agricultural space (not necessarily for commercial gain)
- Allotments like European cities?
- To further the food agenda: provide labs for research and education for community
- Paddington Central as a theatre to celebrate food with other members of the community
- Lift the veil that conceals the process of food - production, storage, preserving, distribution, preparation, cooking, buying, eating
- If the future scenario was to be maintained - the building could be a sustainable hub, technologically enhanced to grow any food in any climate
- At least, until such time technology is capable of that building mass could be dedicated for an archive/vault to food - to educate and preserve the status of food as a fundamental necessity of life.
- A suburban botanical garden/farm (Botanical gardens facilitate scientific research and plant taxonomy as well as inviting members of the public to move across a site to learn about the vegetation, but also doubly act as a resting point, place for recreational activities, eating, read, perform, wed...)
- Green/food aqueduct: perhaps the intervention receives and distributes food by growing along a sort of 'green aqueduct' (along the old tram network?) - Similarly to Roman days this network supplies a town with an essential necessity. Focused around a collection point (Paddington Central)
- Facilitate sustainable practices i.e. grow food onsite at Paddington central or generate interest and provide know-how and tools for home grown food, riding bikes instead or catch the bus instead of driving, outdoor leisure/recreation instead of watching tv, wind/algae farm?,
- Markets to re-instate fair trading and community grown/made goods
- Food stalls?
- Cultural exchange
SCRIPT
Users and interaction with Paddington Central...
'Jenny' might go to Paddington Central to buy her groceries. Instead of buying goods from anti-competitive, monopolistic, mass produced corporations she can see that the tomato puree she is purchasing has been grown and pureed at the place she buys it from... in doing so, she is awakened to the fact that she (in the past) never knows where her food actually comes from. In this case - she can even get to know the man who grew the tomatoes..
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- 'Peta' and 'John', her son, go to buy groceries. They also find a park in which to enjoy and spend the afternoon, meeting other children for John to play with.
- 'Mark' works in the Brisbane CBD and escapes from the concrete jungle to Paddington Central for a lunch break (by bike or bus). After parking his bike or getting off the bus he has a number of options available to him for a meal at varying cost brackets... restaurant, street food, supermarket. Where he eats it could vary also: with a view to the south over the city on a hill - above the centre, on the hill looking out over the rolling hills/farm/park space, in a restaurant or on a restaurant terrace. After walking past a restaurant kitchen and seeing what they cook, he decides to go into the restaurant and eat on the terrace. After lunch he still has a bit of time to kill before he is due back at work. He discovers the seed archive and learns a bit about the history of growing food. At the end, he decides to take the food process into his own hands, and buys pumpkin seeds from a farmer in the centre to grow at home.
- 'Lauren' has a small 2x2m 'allotment' at Paddington central that she shares with her neighbour. She rides her bike with a basket on the back to the allotment to collect some apples. She wants to make an apple pie for her date that night. After she has filled her basket with apples, she passes 'Peta' who is sitting in the shade of a tree, watching 'John'. 'Peta' offers 'Lauren' some money to buy a couple of apples for a snack. 'Lauren' agrees. That weekend, 'Lauren' decides to walk around the park with a basket of apples to sell to people relaxing or working.
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