[lofo List] Mobile Dining - Community Kitchen (in Toronto)

[Daryl Hepting <hepting@cs.uregina.ca>]

> http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/mobile-dining-kitchen.php
> also at http://www.moleculararchitecture.blogspot.com/
> "Arising out of mutual interests in urban agriculture, community  
> engagement and a belief in social value of sharing food, Mount  
> Dennis Community Kitchen has joined forces with Masters of  
> Architecture students at the University of Toronto to design and  
> build a mobile community kitchen for the historic Mount Dennis  
> neighbourhood."
>
> Students at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture,  
> Landscape and Design (full disclosure: my Alma Mater) built the  
> mobile kitchen from recycled materials.
>
> It is made of three components: a table section, a cooking section,  
> and a recycling section.
>
> It doesn't look that easy to move around, but it does look like the  
> Mount Dennis community has a great place to party.
>
> The project statement says "While it is unusual for a burgeoning  
> community group to receive weekly architectural presentations, it is  
> equally unusual for architectural students to have to interact with  
> a real client in the form of a working community organization – and  
> then deliver the project at full scale."
>
> It is also unusual for architecture students to actually build  
> things with their own hands, from recycled materials, that serve a  
> useful purpose and respond to real needs. We need more of this.
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor  * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
dhh@cs.uregina.ca    * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210  * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312


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