BEAN FEAST

ASSIGNMENT TWO

WILL Oil + Salt

TYLER Pepper + Water

RACHEL Beef + Cheese

LAUREN Rice + Pinto Beans

ANNIE Aluminum + Sour Cream

SARAH Chicken + Beef

AYNAV Lettuce

MATT Tortillas Corn + Flour

VLAD Paper + Plastic

JAY Onions

MICHAEL Avocado

JULIE Lemons + Tomatoes

RODRIGO Propane + Jalapeno Peppers

STEPHANIE Pork + Black Beans

Bean Feast Movie

You have just eaten something. It is being assimilated by your body.

It came from somewhere…

It is going somewhere…

and so are you…

You are your classmates are to map it’s contents and trace the origins of everything:

salt pepper water cheese paper chicken beef lettuce sour cream onions cilantro tomatoes safflower oil lemon juice rice aluminum foil beans

Where was it bought? Where was it grown? How was it grown? How did it get here? How many calories did it provide? How was it processed? What is the life cycle of a bean? What is the origin of the water? What does it’s distribution network look like, how does it work? Where did the propane come from?

What will a Tacoshed Boundary look like?

Process:

1. Inventory all of the ingredients in the food you have just eaten, including any packaging.
2. Do as much research as possible and hand map your findings (analog only). Actually draw… Use the maps we have provided as a basis, if needed. You will present your work at the next class.
3. Draw an intuitive, “common sense” diagram for your selected or assigned ingredient (whether a whole or processed product) which explains how you think it came to be, and what it is in space and time. Try to capture all you currently know about it’s trajectory to your meal. The diagram may take the form of a geographic map but need not if another format communicates more of what you know.
4. After making each diagram, list on each the metadata that would be needed to verify this process or investigate it further. Metadata are the parameters that define the data that you need to answer your question.