Topic Food
The global food and beverage industry is the largest in the world, not only because of its size but also because of the multi-scalar breadth of the industry. Looking at a broad range of topics—from farming and distribution to consumption and waste—these investigations explore the relationship between the alimentary, architecture, and urbanism.
Designing Food Security in Rural Mississippi
For nearly a decade, Mississippi has ranked as America’s hungriest state. Nearly 19 percent of…
Students in Dialogue: A Conversation with Maximilian Mueller
What is it like to be a Master in Design Engineering (MDE) student…
Work in Progress: Sijia Zhong’s heritage site in Lima, Peru
Sijia Zhong (MLA I AP ’23) describes her final project for the…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Anny Li’s “The World Was Their Garden: Plant introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984”
by Anny Li (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. In 1898,…
Nina Sayles (MUP/ MPH ’22): Making field to table work regionally
Nina Sayles spent five months of COVID isolation at her parents’ place in New Hampshire.
Michael Twitty, “Beyond ‘Slave Food’: Re-Organizing the Perceptions and Potential of African American Foodways”
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Highlands’ Harvest
by Alysoun Wright (MUP/ MLA I AP ’21) The Lower Highlands neighborhood of Lowell,…
Food on Mixed Ontology
by Sean Kim (MArch II/ MDes ADPD ’22) and Ge Zhou (MArch II ’21) Food…
Cooking Sections’ Salmon: A Red Herring: Are our ideas about color and nature based on fundamental misconceptions?
How do you like your salmon? If you prefer the natural look, that’s fine—there’s a…