Making visible the Edible City By Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins NEW PUBLICATION RELEASED MARCH 2024 With cities becoming so vast, so entangled, and perhaps so critically unsustainable,…
Below is a summary of the hydroponics project in Iraq. We are in constant search for support and funding for the project. If you feel you can support…
Edible mapping feature on the Tom Heap View a short clip of Mikey Tomkins discussing urban agriculture and food mapping with Tom Heap. Specifically, the program deals with…
Published in Livingmaps Review Issue 9, 2020 LINES OF DESIRE Download the full paper here
I worked in the Kurdish region for several years co-founding an NGO and working to establish agriculture and gardens in camps. Below are a selection of my photographs…
Title of paper: Cultivating refuge: the role of urban agriculture amongst refugees and forced migrants in the Kurdistan region of Iraq Cultivating refuge: the role of urban agriculture…
The map gallery features a selection of images, some high resolution, of maps, and other art work associated with the walks and events. if you copy and image…
From the 16th-23rd of May 2015 I exhibited the Edible Map of Newcastle, alongside limited edition plates, and a series of seven-day artist led walks, as part of the…
A selection of images from various Edible Walks, including Hackney, Peterborough, Newcastle, Shieldfield, 2010 – 2019. Images, ©Mikey Tomkins, SAW, Julia Heslop, Sandra Keating
As part of the communal aspect of eating and sharing harvests, I have begun to develop the maps into plates. This is still a nascent idea but one…
SHIELDFIELD WHEATFIELD was a project in collaboration with Shieldfield Art Works, begun in 2018, with the aim of growing urban wheat in Shieldfield, Newcastle. The wheat would then…
The Urban Wheat Guardian, is one of two costumes and masks I have been making over 2020, the second is the Fish Spirit Catcher. The Urban Wheat Guardian…
These films made in 2016 and 2017, explores how various aspects of urban agriculture, from home gardens to market gardens help transform the refugee camp and enrich the…
Below is the full description of the Hackney edible walk from the RGS Website. I was interviewed by the RGS who transcribed and edited by commentary as shown…
These costumes below, as well as the wheat costume, were created to help explore questions around the cultural response to urban food production within my imaginary maps. For…
June 2019. As part of an exhibition at Shieldfield Art Works, Newcastle upon Tyne I exhibited the Edible Map of the Shieldfield as well as running a…
There is a companion page to this post, which explores the quantitative work that was undertaken in Dallas. This post deals with the quantitative mapping, which is an…
Incredible Edible Bishop Auckland, County Durham. This map was drawn to support the launch of Incredible Edible Bishop Auckland, March 2019. The map focuses on the central part…
Prior to focusing on academic and art practices around the subject of UA, I was a film maker and below are some of the previous films and videos…
A new publication, due in February 2024
"URBAN FOOD MAPPING: MAKING VISIBLE THE EDIBLE CITY" is dedicated to the subject of urban food maps.
Edited by Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins, the book presents 26 chapters and over 200 maps that explore this emerging academic area in cities across the globe.
