Comments on: The Farm Project by Mike Meiré at Design Miami http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/ architecture and design magazine Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:56:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Carlos Eduardo http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/#comment-82013 Carlos Eduardo Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:34:04 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/#comment-82013 Love this project, very interesting... Love this project, very interesting…

]]> By: Leah placebo http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/#comment-71871 Leah placebo Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:53:45 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/#comment-71871 I love bringing the farm to the fore. This particular effort strikes me as a romance. In it, we can have our cake and eat it too (have our pet farm and a "farm" too (albeit a romantic one)). It's a far cry from life on the farm -- but it's better than point-of-unwrapping, pop-in-the-mouth food-from-god-knows-where/what/whom. At least one begins to imagine the actual look and smell of that food on one's plate when its face was alive and looking atcha. As a practical consideration within the romance, I do wonder about hoof-and-mouth disease, flies and so forth. Odors. Dust. Regarding the stated impetus/premise of this piece, and speaking for myself and most everyone I know, neither the kitchen nor cooking has been designed out of _my_ life. I don't know whom the artist is speaking about. What class, what age range, what country, what educational background, what career? Just take a look at the proliferation of cooking utensils, cookbooks and cooking videos, and the rise of greenmarkets, community-supported agriculture, and the 100-mile meal. Increasing numbers of "folks" are remembering whence their food comes and engaging with real-life farmers. I admit to feeling a bit offended by being served something in this piece that I have already "thought" of -- and engaged w/. I'd love to see a proliferation of real urban farms, tours of urban slaughterhouses (humane ones), city kids learning animal husbandry on a daily basis and so on. The fact that art can still make a statement about farming is sad to me. This topic, like topics that have little or nothing to do with humans experiencing each other (environmental topics, I mean), remains WIDE OPEN. Hope to see more. And would love to see more thinking/art-making about energy-dependence at all levels. I love bringing the farm to the fore. This particular effort strikes me as a romance. In it, we can have our cake and eat it too (have our pet farm and a “farm” too (albeit a romantic one)). It’s a far cry from life on the farm — but it’s better than point-of-unwrapping, pop-in-the-mouth food-from-god-knows-where/what/whom. At least one begins to imagine the actual look and smell of that food on one’s plate when its face was alive and looking atcha.

As a practical consideration within the romance, I do wonder about hoof-and-mouth disease, flies and so forth. Odors. Dust.

Regarding the stated impetus/premise of this piece, and speaking for myself and most everyone I know, neither the kitchen nor cooking has been designed out of _my_ life. I don’t know whom the artist is speaking about. What class, what age range, what country, what educational background, what career? Just take a look at the proliferation of cooking utensils, cookbooks and cooking videos, and the rise of greenmarkets, community-supported agriculture, and the 100-mile meal. Increasing numbers of “folks” are remembering whence their food comes and engaging with real-life farmers.

I admit to feeling a bit offended by being served something in this piece that I have already “thought” of — and engaged w/.

I’d love to see a proliferation of real urban farms, tours of urban slaughterhouses (humane ones), city kids learning animal husbandry on a daily basis and so on. The fact that art can still make a statement about farming is sad to me. This topic, like topics that have little or nothing to do with humans experiencing each other (environmental topics, I mean), remains WIDE OPEN. Hope to see more. And would love to see more thinking/art-making about energy-dependence at all levels.

]]> By: Suzy http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/#comment-71626 Suzy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:24:00 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/07/the-farm-project-by-mike-meire-at-design-miami/#comment-71626 So the main question is: are we allowed to slaughter/eat them? :) So the main question is: are we allowed to slaughter/eat them?

:)

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