SOILED's third installment: Platescrapers

2012-04-02T11:24:00-04:00

Platescrapers navigates itinerant fare, comestible politics, and gastro-ritual to purvey stories about social issues and exaggerated realities; each story illustrates food as a monument to galvanize the public.

SOILED is an architectural periodical based in Chicago. It investigates latent issues in the built environment and the politics of space.

SOILED's latest issue, entitled Platescrapers, is out! With three issues to date, SOILED is available in both a print edition and a free downloadable PDF via www.soiledzine.org. SOILED is published by CARTOGRAM architecture + urban design.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, and Joseph Altshuler challenge us to play with our food.
Annie Lambla connects yogurt making to dairy farms while observing the Midwest's culture.
Thomas Hillier recounts the exodus and edible nostalgia of an English twosome.
Greg Corso champions the inclusion of cannabis cultivation into architectural vernacular.
Kyle Andrew Sturgeon strategizes an infrastructure to combat the invasion of Asian carp.
Eylül Kethüda choreographs a mega-event around victuals, monuments, and mob mentality.
Francesco Vedovato sets the table with an ec...

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2012-03-19T14:03:00-04:00

For Archinect’s latest Working out of the Box feature, Paul Petrunia interviewed Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp. Will Galloway asked "say shouldn't someone interview paul for this feature too?" to which Paul responded "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain".

For Archinect’s latest Working out of the Box feature, Paul Petrunia interviewed Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp. Will Galloway asked "say shouldn't someone interview paul for this feature too?" to which Paul responded "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain".

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Felix Salmon the finance blogger at Reuters reviews MoMA’s Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream exhibit. Therein he wrote "Of course, for an idea to be sustainable, it also has to be realistic. Much of the MoMA show fails that criterion miserably." Steven Ward questioned "he's reviewing a highly speculative ideas-based exhibit at an art museum as if it's a feasibility study?!" and then went on to suggest "this is why it's so hard for innovation and idea-generation activities to gain traction. they're squashed before anything really can be explored fully by those who say 'nah, that won't work' or, worse yet, 'woah, that's elitist/discriminatory/etc'."

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SOILED's third installment: Platescrapers

Editor's Picks #255