A Model for Food Access in Post-industrial Detroit

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A Model for Food Access in Post-industrial Detroit

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2020

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title: A Model for Food Access in Post-industrial Detroit

creator: Kaleigh Stirrat

subject: Food industry and trade, Environmental aspects; Marketplaces, Michigan, Detroit, Designs and plans; President's Award winner (2020)

description: Embedding food culture into the supply chain and engaging the public through a model that integrates methods of production with moments of exchange reconnects food access in the post-industrial era. This model can be repeated in other food deserts and has the potential to expand into suburban territory, creating an even stronger network system to go from food desert to food oasis. One and a half billion tons of food are wasted every year. Agriculture would need to produce 250% more food by 2050 to support an additional two billion people. It simply cannot be done without causing majorly disruptive climate changes. Growing more food is not the solution. What happens to a generation of children who grow up not knowing what a vegetable looks like? What about people who don’t know how to cook or don’t have kitchen appliances? To think that growing more food is the solution to the food crisis is a complete oversight of the root of the issue: cultural standards. Architecture has models that support the public education of other cultural activities like museums and libraries... but you can’t eat a copy of Delirious New York or a Vincent Van Gogh original. The future of food is thinking about it beyond its life necessity value and towards a holistic cultural asset.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2020

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