Foodprint Program

food for the city

2009 - 2012
various locations in The Hague
Extra information: FOODPRINT WEBLOG (mostly in Dutch)

The Foodprint program came to a close with the Food Tribunal on April 5, 2012 and the release of the publication Food for the City: A Future for the Metropolis (2012)

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.

PROGRAM FOODPRINT 2012
(for program 2009-2011 scroll down)

Food Forward
15 January - 29 April 2012
Opening: Saturday 14 January 2012
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
The exhibition ‘Food Forward' presents smart solutions and mind blowing ideas on the future of food. Curator: Karen Verschooren, Z33. >> read more
As a kick off to the exhibition an Ostrich Dinner Party will be organized on December 22, 2011. >> read more

Food Tribunal
Thursday 5 April 2012, 7-21 pm
Reception (from 5 pm) with dinner at Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Location Tribunal: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague
International event. Experts from various fields will discuss the topic 'How to feed the cities of the future?' Follow-up of the successful 2009 Foodprint symposium.

Publication
Food for the City. A Future for the Metropolis
Available from April 5, 2012
In 2050 nine billion people will be living on earth, 75 percent of them in cities. If we go on at this rate, we will need several extra planets for the production of our food. This publication examines how we can keep feeding our cities. The chef, the activist, the economist, the artist, the philosopher, the architect and the farmer, among others, offer their view of the future of food for the city.

Publication
Nils Norman, Eetbaar Park/Edible Park
Available from April 2012
The British artist Nils Norman created the art project ‘Edible Park' in The Hague to test in practice what the ecological design method of permaculture could mean to a city. In this publication Norman explains how he sets to work, what his sources of inspiration are, and in which artistic and social-critical context his work can be placed.

PROGRAM FOODPRINT 2011

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 5pm
Launch Carolyn Steel's 'De Hongerige Stad'
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
NAi Publishers and InnovatieNetwerk present the Dutch translation of Carolyn Steel's 'Hungry City' (2008), the international bestseller which is an important source of inspiration for the Foodprint program.

'Edible Park' by Nils Norman
Date: all year long in 2011
The art project 'Edible Park' by Nils Norman will be continued in 2011. The pavilion will be finished and the permaculture garden at the amateur gardener's association Nut & Genoegen will be put in place, including various objects and demonstration zones related to permaculture and sustainability like a worm bin, and the implementation of various techniques for composting and soil remediation. G'Aarde Gezonde Gronden will organize a series of activities for the local inhabitants and people interested in permaculture. In addition Stroom Den Haag is preparing a publication dedicated to the Edible Park project.

'Foodscape Schilderswijk' by Debra Solomon/Urbaniahoeve
Date: all year long in 2011
One Year anniversary celebrations
Wednesday, June 22 2-11, 1-4 pm
Continuation of the art project 'Foodscape Schilderswijk' on four locations in the Schilderswijk in The Hague. Led by artist Debra Solomon and Urbaniahoeve a number of 'planting days' will be organized. The result: 4 fully functional typologies with ‘edible green' (fruit trees, berries, herbs etc). On June 22 the Foodscape Schildrswijk One Year Young Day' will be held, with guided tours of the four project locations.

DAG HAP
September 30 to October 16, 2011
Opening concert: Friday September 30, 2011
The DAG HAP festival focuses on the influence food can have on the shape and functioning of a newly built sustainable city district. Erasmusveld is a development area in the south of The Hague which has the ambition to become ‘The most sustainable city district in The Netherlands'. Participating artists include: Refunc, Sjim Hendrix, Henriette Waal, Atelier Gras, Olivier Darnié, Fritz Haeg, Studio Makkink & Bey, Annechien Meier.

'Park Supermarkt' by Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten
Date: fall 2011
Continuation of the Foodprint project 'Park Supermarkt' by Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten in collaboration with Vincent Kuypers (Alterra Wageningen). A model for a ‘landscape supermarket', visualizing the future of the edibility of city parks in Midden-Delfland.

Ostrich Dinner Party
Thursday December 22, 2011
An introduction to the Food Forward exhibition. >> read more

PROGRAM FOODPRINT 2010

(for program 2009 scroll down)

February 4-7, 2010
Foodprint Film program
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 as allegedly experienced by the Twelve Apostles.
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.
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'.
More information click here.

12 September thru 21 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 in Dutch only.

Friday 24 September 2010
Excursion ‘Architecture and food'
As part of the relaunch of Foodprint Stadsgids Den Haag
More information in Dutch only.

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
By journalist Drees Koren (information in Dutch only).

Tuesday 5 October 2010, 8 pm
Lecture by Fritz Haeg
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Lecture by the author of ‘Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn'.
More information click here.

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
By Hicham Khalidi, artistic director of TAG.
More information in Dutch only.

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.

Friday 22 October 2010
Symposium Edible Park
followed at 5.30 pm by the opening of the Edible Park Pavilion by councillor Rabin Baldewsingh
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
By Annechien Meier, followed by premiere of film 'Borders in our Mind'.
More information in Dutch only.

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 in Dutch only.

The followoing event originally planned for 4 November 2010 has been postponed
‘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
(The DAG HAP festival by Schuttelaar&Partners)

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 '12

various locations in and around The Hague