There are artists out there that commit their lives to the involvement of changing the how people view their environment and the artists shown here have done it in a way that involves the public in the artwork itself. Nicole Fournier is an artist, activist and founder of InTerreArt which has exhibited her art for more than 20 years. Nicole’s best known work involves the concept of incorporating art, the environment, performance and agriculture called Live Dining. The Live Dining Project is the act of integrating a dining-kitchen room installation in a location where plants grow and the performance of harvesting, cooking and dining all from one area. Amy Franceschini is an artist, educator and award winning web designer who uses her talents
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The project by the Futurefarmers featured is the Soil Kitchen Project which involves a “temporary, windmill-powered architectural intervention and multi-use space where citizens enjoy free soup in exchange for soil samples from their neighborhood". The exchange of the soil for the soup allows for an exchange of dialogue and action to establish the value of natural resources through a trade economy and tools to respond to possible contaminants in the soil. The Soil Kitchen takes direct action in the testing of the areas soil to educate and include the public of wind turbine construction, urban agriculture, soil remediation, composting, and lectures by soil scientists as well as cooking lessons. This project directly involves citizens into a learning environment to learn how to become self sufficient farmers in urban environments while also documents and archiving for the Philadelphia Brownfields Map and Soil …show more content…
For the Live Dining Project, Nicole Fournier take a more hands on approach while also keeping the experience very intimate by not expanding the project to a larger vicinity. This intimate experience creates a better relationship established between the public and the goal of learning to create a sustainable environment. In contrast, Amy Franceschini’s Soil Kitchen is a larger project that incorporates many different people and a variety of elements including energy efficiency as well as clean agricultural cultivation. Because the project is much larger than the Live Dining, it includes a lot more people and can then effect a larger amount of people while gaining more public
The project by the Futurefarmers featured is the Soil Kitchen Project which involves a “temporary, windmill-powered architectural intervention and multi-use space where citizens enjoy free soup in exchange for soil samples from their neighborhood". The exchange of the soil for the soup allows for an exchange of dialogue and action to establish the value of natural resources through a trade economy and tools to respond to possible contaminants in the soil. The Soil Kitchen takes direct action in the testing of the areas soil to educate and include the public of wind turbine construction, urban agriculture, soil remediation, composting, and lectures by soil scientists as well as cooking lessons. This project directly involves citizens into a learning environment to learn how to become self sufficient farmers in urban environments while also documents and archiving for the Philadelphia Brownfields Map and Soil …show more content…
For the Live Dining Project, Nicole Fournier take a more hands on approach while also keeping the experience very intimate by not expanding the project to a larger vicinity. This intimate experience creates a better relationship established between the public and the goal of learning to create a sustainable environment. In contrast, Amy Franceschini’s Soil Kitchen is a larger project that incorporates many different people and a variety of elements including energy efficiency as well as clean agricultural cultivation. Because the project is much larger than the Live Dining, it includes a lot more people and can then effect a larger amount of people while gaining more public