We’re excited to announce the Winning Concepts for our Local Food Challenge! Congratulations to our Top 10 and a big shout-out to the entire Community for your incredible work. We've had the best response ever to this spirited challenge. Hopefully you might even be inspired to try out something from them in your own community!
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Queensland open sustainability & food day
Imagine IDEO OPEN transferred into Queensland OPEN. When people are involved they have ownership and that is essential to create a change. Global change by acting local. Queensland Government should ask the citizens for help
**UPDATED** Strategic Geography and the 'Food Hub' (still a working title)
Learning from the repeated success of the <a href="http://www.cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket/">Rochester Public Market</a>, I am suggesting developing a program or organization (i.e. Farmers-Market-in-a-Box, similar to http://imaginationplayground.
Redesign the supermarket layout based on food miles... UPDATED
(Initial concept is below) ** Update** Since building upon this concept through some intense brainstorming with everyone at the OpenIDEO workshop in Brisbane, this concept has developed into 'The Super Challenge: An Australian Event', which (as
50 Within 50
Participating schools will source 50% of their food within 50 miles and the other 50% is sourced within Australasia.
Eatcyclopedia: A Phone App to Help Connect and Inform
UPDATED: Although interactive apps are useful, another possibility for an app is a prebuilt app that can be used offline like an encyclopedia that focuses on food production and consumption. Accessing the information doesn’t have to take place at a s
Market Days + Food Trucks = Serving Low-income Neighborhoods
What if food trucks sold fresh produce instead of hotdogs? Traveling vendors can set-up shop in different neighborhoods on specific days in order to provide fresh food to locals. By providing mobile service, particularly to under-served urban neigh
A celebration of imperfection
Fruit and veg have become size 8 models. They all look identical, they all glisten, radiate and scream "look at me, I'm perfect". Following generations of comfortability with mass produced identicalness, we've forgotten about the vibrancy and dynamis
Hold Seasonal "Open House" Days at Local Farms
Inspired by artist "open studio" days, the Queensland government could sponsor a 4x yearly "Open House" day at local farms to get urban residents more connected to their local food producers. During the seasonal Open House days, urbanites would get t
Window to the Farm
A startup business that boosts food traceability and brings producers closer to consumers. The startup would create a wiki style platform for food providers to share their provenance and information on their products. It would sell kits to schools
Public Kitchen
UPDATED! This is an idea for a public kitchen where you can go and bring any product you would like to process, fruit for juices or marmelade, vegetables for pickles, meet or fish for smoking... The shop provides the necessary equipment as well as tr
