Written by Elsa Brown: Urban foodscapes—their compositions, histories and potential futures— are the focus of The Foodprint Project, a recently launched series of international conversations about food and the city. The ongoing exploration, based at the project website, will be punctuated by physical events in cities, the first of which took place recently in New York.

Studio-X hosted an afternoon of free panel discussions that examined the way food shapes the city of New York, from a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to an examination of how zoning and policy shape the city’s food systems. With panel titles like “Zoning Diet” and “Edible Archaeology” the discussions featured: “designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education.”

Note: Future events will take the Foodprint Project to other cities for geographically specific explorations of food and the urban environment.

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