Exhibition « Design Revolution Road Show
Empowerment Through Food is another cool program by the folks at Project H that’s being implemented in Brooklyn. If you have the time, check out the Design Revolution Road Show as well for more smart design solution for their eight issues: Water, Well-Being, Energy, Education, Play, Food, Mobility, Enterprise.
“In collaboration with multiple schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the New York City-based team is developing an urban farming and plant sales program to teach ecology, health, and business skills within academic curricula. Vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers will be planted and tended to as part of a daily academic routine that has implications in the home as well. Through planter design, seed and plant sales, school “farmer’s markets,” and a curriculum focused on local food harvesting and personal health, the school program uses food as a platform for education and community productivity. Elements include an on-site garden, in-classroom lesson plans, extracurricular urban farming club activities, and food production that directly supplies the school’s cafeteria. Plant sales, instead of the more common gift wrapping paper or magazine sales, will provide an enterprise-based framework for teaching basic business skills.”
