The graphic has been designed by Avinash Deshmukh (2nd year Srishti student)

The graphic has been designed by Avinash Deshmukh (2nd year Srishti student)

Designed by Sowmya S. (2nd year student at Srishti)

Note (feb 25 08): Will add a text description here soon. Maybe a kind of interpretation of the mindmap?

• once a variety of vegetables and fruits are growing in different parts of Bangalore, recipe-based routes would develop. So to eat a recipe one would need to walk along a route, pluck the ingredients, cook the recipe and eat it.
• to compile maps of regular and stable crops in print form and work with organizations to make the maps available to the range of migrant and temporary labour force and the homeless in Bangalore (initially).
• to create a social and communal safety-net of food in cities so that in our modern cities of abundance and affluence, starvation and malnutrition won’t be as common as they are now.
• make cities less cold, unwelcoming and apathetic.
• the data collected across the process would help in developing inter-relations between factors such as soil toxicity and fertility, light, aggression (trampling, uprooting, eating), heat etc. and their impact on the survival factor of plants. I would further attempt to visualize this data in multiple ways.

Challenges:

• safety of plants growing in unguarded and unenclosed spaces
• develop spaces with growths of vegetables, fruits and flowers which influence their environment in multi-sensory ways (aesthetic, ecological…)

Method:

• a weekly routine of sowing, nurturing and documenting the planting effort.
• effort to involve volunteers in the process (students, street children etc.).

Time-scale of project:

Pilot: February to April 2008. The target of the pilot:

1. Have one good crop of vegetables, fruits etc. for a public street-side party in the vicinity of the area where the plants are grown.