Foodprint Program
food for the city
March 2009 thru December 2011
various locations in The Hague
In 2009 Stroom Den Haag kicked off the program Foodprint. Food for the city.
The program takes place over the course of several years and focuses on the
influence food can have on the culture, shape and functioning of the
city, using The Hague as a case study. The program invites artists and designers to develop appealing
proposals on the subject, while at the same time establishing a clear
connection with entrepreneurs, farmers, food experts and the general
public.
Largely hidden from the view of the city dweller, a
worldwide network of food producers and supermarket chains takes care
of our supply of daily food. This is very convenient, but it is also
the cause of many problems. A handful of distributors decides what we
eat. For the most part the people who produce the food are invisible.
There is hardly any knowledge of how our food is actually
produced. The return of food production to the city might help to
increase this awareness and might also create healthy and safe food
within the boundaries of a more sustainable city. With Foodprint Stroom aims to explore the possibilities of The
Hague as a production landscape and to develop utopian, appealing and
feasible proposals.
Link to Foodprint Web dossier
PROGRAM FOODPRINT 2010
Program and dates subject to change
(for program 2009 scroll down)
Foodprint Film program
February 4-7, 2010
Location: Filmhuis Den Haag, Spui, The Hague
Five documentaries in concurrence with 'Foodprint.
More information click here.
Saturday 4 September 2010, 7.30 pm-midnight
‘The Last Supper', performance Raul Ortega Ayala
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Performance as part of Museumnacht Den Haag. A meticulous recreation of the ‘original' meal and surrounding rituals as allegedly experienced by the Twelve Apostles according to the research of food historian Daniel Rogov. This is also a preview of Raul Ortega Ayala's exhibition which opens at Stroom Den Haag on September 11.
More information click here
Sunday 5 September 2010, 12 noon-6 pm
Haags UIT festival 2010
Location: Lange Voorhout, The Hague
Stroom has a stand on the Information Market of the Haags UIT
festival, the opening of the new cultural season in The Hague.
More information about the Haags UIT festival click here
Saturday 11 September 2010, 5 pm
Opening: Foodprint: Raul Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Featuring the performance ‘Melting Pots', for which the artist recreates a buffet as it was served in the Windows on the World restaurant of the Twin Towers in New York, using kitchenware that was possibly made with recycled debris from the WTC.
More information click here.
12 September thru 7 November 2010
Exhibition Foodprint: Raul Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'
The works of this Mexican artist focus on the cultural, ethical and religious aspects of food.
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
More
information click here.
Wednesday 22 September 2010, 8 pm
‘Foodies, foodporn and foodblogs'.
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
An evening with a.o. a film quiz by Louise Fresco and Helen
Westerik.
More information will follow.
Friday 24 September 2010
Excursion ‘Architecture and food'
As part of the relaunch of Foodprint Stadsgids Den Haag
More information will follow.
Sunday 26 September 2010, 3 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition Foodprint: Raul Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
More information will follow.
Tuesday 5 October 2010, 8 pm
Lecture by Fritz Haeg
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
The author of ‘Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn'. This lecture is part of
‘The Knight's Move', a series of lectures by eminent international speakers who stand out by their unusual, enlightening and inspirational visions concerning the city, urbanity, the public domain, and community.
More information will follow.
Sunday 10 October 2010, 3 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition Foodprint: Raul Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
More information will follow
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Picnic and opening Foodscape Schilderswijk
Location: Schilderswijk in The Hague
A project by the artist Debra Solomon.
More information about Foodscape Schilderswijk click here.
More information about the picnic/opening will follow.
Friday 22 October 2010
Symposium Edible Park (1-6 pm) followed by the opening of the Edible Park Pavilion (6.30 pm)
Location symposium: Amateurtuindersvereniging Nut en Genoegen, Meppelweg 882, Escamp, The Hague
Location opening: Zuiderpark, at Stadsboerderij De Herweijerhoeve, The Hague
Edible Park is a project of the artist Nils Norman.
Saturday 23 October 2010, 10 am-4 pm
Practical workshop for the general public as part of Edible Park
Locations: Pavilion Edible Park, Zuiderpark, at Stadsboerderij De Herweijerhoeve, The Hague
and Amateurtuindersvereniging Nut en Genoegen, Meppelweg 882, Escamp, The Hague
Edible Park is a project of the artist Nils Norman.
Sunday 31 October 2010, 3 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition Foodprint: Raul Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
More information will follow.
Tuesday 2 November 2010
‘Eten als einde'
Location: a cemetery in The Hague
Event on the occasion of All Saints Day and the exhibition Foodprint: Raul
Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'. Inspired by the Dia de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico when family and friends gather to pray for and remember friends and releatives who have died.
More information will follow.
Thursday 4 November 2010
‘Kansen voor Den Haag'
Workshops organized by InnovatieNetwerk in concurrence with the research paper'Voedsel voor de stad. Een veldonderzoek'
More information will follow.
- FOODPRINT PROGRAM 2009
Foodprint: Introduction
Wednesday March 25, 2009, 8.30 pm
Lecture Carolyn Steel over 'Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives'.
More information click here.
Foodprint: Symposium.
Friday June 26, 2009 (9 am-5.45 pm
A varied program focusing on the important role food can play in the design of a sustainable, healthy and green city, looking at this topic from various angles and disciplines.
Organisation: Het Portaal and Stroom Den Haag.
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Foodprint: Exhibition
Saturday June 27 thru Sunday August 23, 2009
Curator Marieke Berkers shows crucial moments relating to food, food production and the city through the work of artists and designers.
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Foodprint: Art Projects for the city
In order to show the current, local relationship between food and the city of The Hague, a number of artists have been commissioned to create new work for Foodprint.
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Foodprint: Design assignments
Special assignments in and around the city, which look at the topic from the point of view of food and the growing of food, offer innovative chances for a user-friendly and attractive green environment.
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Foodprint Stadsgids Den Haag
In Dutch only.
More information click here.
Foodprint: Education
More information click here
(information in Dutch only)
Foodprint: Extra Activitities
During the Foodprint program the theme will be developed through a number of extra activities, like lectures, travels and film screenings.
Acknowledgments:
Foodprint is an initiative of Stroom Den Haag and is also made possible by the City of The Hague on the occasion of Groenjaar 2009 and Fonds Burgerschap, Mondriaan Stichting, Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, Fonds 1818, Stichting Doen, Casema Cultuur Fonds Den Haag, SNS Reaal Fonds, Cultuurfonds BNG, LTO - Vakgroep Varkenshouderij, TU Delft, Innovatienetwerk, Provincie Zuid-Holland, Productschap Tuinbouw, Design Den Haag, Staedion and Vestia.
Foodprint is developed in collaboration with:
Ministerie van LNV, Wageningen Universiteit, Landbouw Economisch Instituut (LEI) and Eetbaar Rotterdam.
The Foodprint promotional campaign is designed by Thonik, Amsterdam
Recommendation comittee
Mr. J. van Aartsen, mayor of The Hague; Mrs. Y. Feddes, national advisor for Landscape affairs; Mr. W. Pijbes, director Rijksmuseum; Mr. P. Rosenmoller, former politician and chair of the Covenant on Obesity, Mr. C. Veerman, farming entrepreneur and former minister of Agriculture.
- 25 Mar '09 - 31 Dec '11
- various locations in and around The Hague
