Category: Edible Walks
Edible Walks formed a specific part of the Edible Map project where the drawn map was complimented by a series of walks through the imaginary landscape of an “edible city”. These were wonderful moments for me where i got to spend time with residents and locals and explore their city through a two hour walk, were we could explore the idea of the urban edible landscape. They ran only with the support of am institution, usually as part of a residency, largely because they were time consuming to organise and run.
Example walks 2010-2020:
2010: Hackney, East London, supported by Space Gallery.
2011: Hackney, East London, supported by Space Gallery.
2015: Central Newcastle, supported by Newbridge Gallery.
2015: Peterborough, support by The Green Backyard, and Metal Peterborough.
2019: Shieldfield, Newcastle, supported by Shieldfield Art Works.
In collaboration with the University of Brighton VR was used to create a “virtual walk” in Brighton, where participants could examine potential sites for urban agriculture.
Hull’s Right to grow initiative to make open spaces accessible for community food growing, promoting urban agriculture.
A Leeds mapping project transforming urban spaces by integrating nature recovery through community collaboration.
Displays a collection of maps and artworks related to urban agriculture projects and edible walks.
Creation and exhibition of an edible map in Newcastle, promoting urban food production in the city centre.
Walks were an intrinsic part of the map making process. Once a map was drawn, I would use the map to invite the public to walk with me and…
These costumes were created to help explore questions around the cultural response to urban food production within my imaginary maps.
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…
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…
The Edible City of Peterborough, UK This Edible Map focuses on the centre of Peterborough, UK. In the 1960s the Cambridgeshire town of Peterborough was designated a New Town. It now…
Newcastle Journal 2015 Could Newcastle’s rooftops become an urban farm? By David Whetstone A new project in Newcastle is envisaging a future where food is produced on urban…
Guardian 2011 Edible Hackney More and more people are finding imaginative places for growing food in urban environments. Edward Platt reports. The Guardian article is here
YOU ARE HUNGRY: MAPPING AN EDIBLE URBAN HACKNEY was the first Edible Map and walk that I created. The walks ran in both 2010 and 2011 and were…
As part of the Discovering Britain series, The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has published the Hackney Edible walk as a self-walk with audio guide and…
Flâneuring, Edible Mapping and Feeding Imaginations This paper discusses the edible map project and walks in Hackney, London, 2010-2011 Title of Paper: You Are Hungry: Flâneuring, Edible Mapping…