Feb. 25: Tacoshed (Aquaponics) at Studio for Urban Projects SF

[Guest guest]

Tacoshed (Aquaponics)

Thursday February 25th, 7pm

The Studio for Urban Projects

3579 17th Street/Dolores

San Francisco, CA 9411

Last fall a group of CCA architecture students, led by Landscape Architect David

Fletcher and Rebar art and design studio shared a meal together at a local taco

truck for a class assignment. Our research seminar explored San Francisco's

food and wastesheds. Our premise was that a seemingly simple, familiar food like

the taco truck taco could provide visceral insight into the connections between

the systems we were exploring. By thoroughly learning the process of formation

and lifecycle what it takes to make a taco, we would be better able to propose

and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future. What

resulted was a richly complex network of systems, flows and ecologies that we

call the global Tacoshed. The research seminar was a part of the URBANlab, an

innovative curriculum component of The California College of the Arts

Architecture Program.

Please join us for a talk by Jessica Diaz of Gracias Madre, a new restaurant

serving organic Mexican cuisine to the Mission District of San Francisco, a

presentation of Back to Basics by Materials and Applications - a recirculating

fish taco farm charged with rainwater at the beginning of the season, stocked

with locally spawned tilapia and raising tomatoes, onion, and lettuce by harvest

/ party time; and a presentation, exhibition, and discussion of the results of

our Tacoshed research.

Suggested donation: $5-$15 at the door.

Mark Andrew Gravel of Bouwerie will be serving organic black bean tacos from his

Spotted Rooster project.

http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2010/02/tacoshed/