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FOOD & CULTURE​
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Food and Culture is an elective module which aims to examine and explore how the act of food preparation and consumption influences spaces and place-making in architecture through the act of research and on site experiences. The emphasis is on the processes of experiencing, capturing, diagramming, and identifying the spatial relationship of food culture within the community that shape its identity and of their built environment.
PROJECT 1A : RESEARCH PROPOSAL
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Task:
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In preparation for the field trip, you are to develop a proposal of maximum TWO (2) A4 pages. You are to choose an aspect of food culture within a community that you are interested in. The following are some possible themes which you may select:
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• Food ingredients: Architectural space and place for the act of gathering ingredient for food preparation (wet market, farmers market, supermarkets, mobile markets)
• Food preparation: Architectural space and place making that provided the act of preparing food; washing, cutting and cooking (kitchen, back lane, open space)
• Food consumption: Architectural space and place for the act of eating food (indoor dining, alfresco dining, formal and informal dining, religious dining/ food offering)
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You may select and develop from the list above. Alternatively, you may also produce your own topic/focus area. Discuss this with your tutor prior to the site visit. This proposal must contain the following:
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1. Title
2. Main research question (What do you want to explore?)
3. Objectives (2 – 3) (What do you want to achieve?)
4. Significance (Why are you doing this?)
5. Methods and expected outcomes (How are you doing this? What is your expected outcome? E.g. video-recording, poster, postcards etc)
PROJECT 1B : EXPERIENCE & CAPTURE - DOCUMENTATIONS OF OBSERVATIONS & FINDINGS
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Task:
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This group assignment will be undertaken during the site visit. It involves a documentation process by which you are required to collect and collate as much data as you could, relating to your chosen topic/theme. The documentation will be in the form of: photographs, transcripts and/or video recordings. You are required to complete a pre-tour research on your selected topic and act as an architectural tour guide for your classmate during the trip.
PROJECT 2 : INTERPRETATION & ANALYSIS
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The aim of this assignment is to translate your research into a visual representation. This assignment will be carried out upon return from your study tour. You are required to analyse and interpret the documentation you have gathered in the study tour. The final document shall be a compilation of your research proposal, analyses and interpretation of your research topic.
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