Tacoshed: do you know where your taco comes from?
Last fall a group of CCA architecture students, led by Landscape Architect David Fletcher and Rebar art and design studio shared a meal together at a local taco truck for a class assignment. Our research seminar explored San Francisco’s food and wastesheds. Our premise was that a seemingly simple, familiar food like the taco truck taco could provide visceral insight into the connections between the systems we were exploring. By thoroughly learning the process of formation and lifecycle what it takes to make a taco, we would be better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future. What resulted was a richly complex network of systems, flows and ecologies that we call the global Tacoshed. The research seminar was a part of the URBANlab, an innovative curriculum component of The California College of the Arts Architecture Program.
Please join us for a talk by Jessica Diaz of Gracias Madre, a new restaurant serving organic Mexican cuisine to the Mission District of San Francisco, a presentation of Back to Basics by Materials and Applications - a recirculating fish taco farm charged with rainwater at the beginning of the season, stocked with locally spawned tilapia and raising tomatoes, onion, and lettuce by harvest / party time; and a presentation, exhibition, and discussion of the results of our Tacoshed research.
Thursday February 25th, 7pm
3579 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 9411
Suggested donation: $5-$15 at the door.
Mark Andrew Gravel of Bouwerie will be serving organic black bean tacos from his Spotted Rooster project.
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13 Feb 10 at 3:14 am
para conocer una cultura hay vivir en ella.Cuando de tacos se habla en Mexico se piensa.YO,personalmemte pienso en el pasado en el momento exacto cuando llegaron los espanoles a America y descubrieron aque no existia el pan blanco ,a base de trigo.sino ,lo que elaboraban los nativos a base de maiz, nuevo para ellos,era muy diferente en textura pero servia para la misma necesidad.complemento alimenticio basico.Para no cansarlos,sepan que la palabra en el idioma maya para decir tortilla es la misma que se usa para pan blanco{huaa}.A mi propia opinion la palabra tortilla surgio de TORTA como se conocia al pan mas popular en ese tiempo pero en diminutibo los espanoles dijeron:hacen unas tortillas!…Espero que les sirva mi comentario ,por lo menos de inspiracion.
luis vazquez
13 Feb 10 at 6:13 pm
Is there a version of the map that you can read the detail?
klvino
17 Feb 10 at 8:46 pm
Larger resolution, please! I’d love to be able to read mileages, the key, and decode more of the traces.
Arthur Prokosch
18 Feb 10 at 5:20 am
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18 Feb 10 at 10:50 am
Hey all,
Sorry for the misunderstanding! This post is intended as a promotion for the event happening on 2/25, rather than a final presentation of the data.
We’d love it if everyone can attend the event and join the discussion. If you can’t make it, just sit tight and we’ll get the full set of info graphics up after the event.
Thanks!
Rebar
18 Feb 10 at 1:30 pm
wouldn’t the fullsize version of the map be better promotion than one that’s frustratingly illegible?
Julio
19 Feb 10 at 2:40 pm
You mean my Taco’s don’t just grow in the back room of Baja Fresh?
I Love Guitar
5 Mar 10 at 11:30 am
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