Food in the City Lookbook in Partnership with MCNY
Food in the City Lookbook
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) partnered with The GIANT Room to offer a series of Creative STEM workshops to families, inspired by their hit exhibition Food In New York: Bigger Than the Plate.
We invited the museum's younger visitors and their families, as well as GIANT kids and their families, to think, experiment and design for a more equitable, socially diverse, and delicious future of food in New York City! Families started their creative journeys at one of the three stations, each inspired by an installation or art piece from the exhibition:
Part I: Food Trucks & Street Food
Inspired by Miguel Luciano’s “Pimp My Piragua” street cart, we invited families to design your own food trucks out of GIANT laser cut models, decide what to serve on their trucks and play!
Part II: NYC Food Maps Inspired by Maira Kalman and Rick
Meyerowitz's Sub-Culinary Map of New York City, we invited families to make a "Food Map" of the city and share their favorite spots!
Part III: DIY Urban Gardens
Inspired by Mary Mattingly’s “Biosphere”, we invited families to design their own mini urban gardens out of laser cut wood panels and learn about urban farming.
Participants were then encouraged to take their creative journeys further, creating new stories, new inventions, and prototypes of new ideas, and sharing their work by displaying it at the museum and publishing it in this book.
This lookbook invites families from all around the world to go on a similar creative journey, dream, experiment, and design for a more equitable, socially diverse, and delicious future of food in their own cities!
More GIANT Remixes:
