In the past two decades, the subject of urbanism has gone under a revised and fertile interrogation within design culture. This laid the latent capacity of the field to embrace a wide array of issues of the urban milieu bare. This course, dwelling on the interactions between people and urban space through the specific framework of food, aims to bring emergent forms of critical research and narrative into discussion. Touching upon issues ranging from food’s relationship with urban form and identity to gastronomic traditions, from emergent food cultures to hunger in the digital age, it intends to make room for original, provocative questions and conceptualizations of food-specific urban production. 

To this end, the course exploits videography as a critical means of analysis, synthesis, and narrative. It aims to extend understandings of movement, event, and experience of time in urban space. It also intends to manifest distinctive and radical ways of thinking about food at various operational levels centering on everyday life and practices of urbanites.