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Unit C
Title: Urban Growth
‘Every day for a city the size of London, enough
food for thirty million meals must be produced,
imported, sold, cooked, eaten and disposed
of.’ (Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives,
Carolyn Steel)
By 2050, it is predicted that the UK will be
the most populated country in Western Europe.
How will our cities adapt to this increase in
population when already over 40% of our food
is imported? With climate change causing
extreme weather conditions, increased pressure
to tax transportation fuels, the rise of food prices
and with an increasingly obese population, our
small island needs to rethink how we approach
food and feeding.
Unit C’s interest this year was urban feeding:
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Project 01: Eat was a celebration of a feast
resulting in a device that responded to
aspects of the chosen meal.
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Project 02: Prepare was the beginning of the
urban farm, an exploration into what was to
be cultivated or reared and why.
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Project 03: Produce was the development
of the farm.
Unit Tutors: Pereen d’Avoine, Maita Kessler (Technology), Caspar Rodgers
Students Year 02: Adam Barlow, Jack Clay, Laura Davis-Lamarre, Sofie Grieg, Sammy-Jo Hagen, Preben
Holst, Caroline Klemp, Carys Payne, Nat Reading, Jennie Schneider, Jacob Spradley, John Venier, Alay
Yesmukhanova, Izabela Zoryk
Students Year 03: Nadhira Abdul Halim, Matthew Cook, Molly de Courcy Wheeler, Maggie Forrester, Jen
Gray, Georgie Haycroft, Ro Jayatissa, Alex Lawrence, Zoe-Maria Osborn, Paul Renwick, Lizzie Witney
Guest Critics: Pierre d’Avoine [Pierre d’Avoine Architects], Joanna Burtenshaw [Artist and Architect], Zoe
Fudge [Artist and Architect], Dimitri Karampatakis [K-Studio], Tom Keeley [Writer], David Roy [James Gorst
Architects], Tristin Wigfall [alma-nac]
With Thanks to: Claude d’Avoine [Dazed and Confused], Jamie Buswell [Future Agenda], Back2Earth, Broadwater
Farm Estate Community Centre, Bruce Castle Museum, MAKE ROOM
022 Molly de Courcy Wheeler: Massing with Light