Food & Culture / Portfolio
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Food and Culture is an elective module with aims to examine and explore how the act of food preparing and consuming influences space and place making in architecture through the act of research and on site experiences.
This subject emphasizes on the process of experiencing, capturing, diagramming, and identifying the spatial relationship of food culture within community that shape its identity of their built environment.
Research Proposal / 01a
In this module we are to go on a field trip and develop a proposal by choosing an aspect of food and culture within a community that we are interested in. The scope of choices are:
• Food ingredients: Architectural space and place for the act of gathering ingredient for food preparation (wet market, farmers market, supermarkets, mobile markets)
• Food preparation: Architectural space and place making that provided the act of preparing food; washing, cutting and cooking (kitchen, back lane, open space)
• Food consumption: Architectural space and place for the act of eating food (indoor dining, alfresco dining, formal and informal dining, religious dining/ food offering)
This proposal must contain the following:
1. Title
2. Main research question (What do you want to explore?)
3. Objectives (2 – 3) (What do you want to achieve?)
4. Significance (Why are you doing this?)
5. Methods and expected outcomes (How are you doing this? What is your expected outcome? E.g. video recording, poster, postcards, etc.)
Interpretation and Analysis / 02
The aim of this second assignment is to translate the research into a visual representation.
In this project, we are required to analyze and interpret the documentation we have gathered in the study tour.
The final document shall be a compilation of the research proposal, analyses and interpretation of the research topic.
The final product is an A2 infographic presentation.
Experience and Capture / 01b
The next part of this module is to document and present our findings based on our research topic.
This is done as a group whereby it could be in the form of: photographs, transcripts and/or video recordings.
The site that our group has chosen is at SS2, Petaling Jaya.