Fall 12 - ARTDES 500 section 034 "Sustainable Food System Design"

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08/30/2012

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Sustainable Food System Design

ARTDES 500.034, 3 credits

Monday / Wednesday 4pm

Room 3230 USB

Several field trips tbd

Professor Joe Trumpey

jtrumpey@umich.edu

This new course will explore a wide variety of contemporary and historic food systems at several scales including conventional, organic, permaculture. Course participants will visit Michigan farms and farmer’s markets including sites in Detroit. Special attention will be given to student farm designs and site visits of peer institutions will take a central role in design thinking and criticism. Students will read and present work from a range of contemporary farm / food literature and will work on completing designs that will 1) take on both a personal focus and 2) investigate designs specific to the University of Michigan. This is not a studio course but creative responses will be expected for work submitted.

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