The Edible Map
A series of downloadable, Edible maps of Elephant and Castle, Croydon, Broxton and Tower Hamlets.
Please email mikeytomkins@gmail.com for details.
The first in the series is an Edible Map of Surrey Street car park, Croydon
While the importance of local food growing is fast gaining ground, the ability to conceive of urban food production actually happening within the bewildering array of structures and surfaces of the city is a difficult concept.
Walking the local neighbourhood with this Edible Map as a guide, the food-flâneur could start to picture a very different landscape of vegetable plots, orchards or beehives. Just add your imagination, and see the grassed areas around housing, the corners of parks, or the many flat rooftops of this quarter of Croydon spring into life with psychogeographic food.
But the Edible Map is more than a visualisation tool. It also attempts to investigate examples of agricultural yields that the immediate area around Surrey Street could produce. This will allow the itinerant urban resident or visitor to visualise what percentage of their current vegetable diet could be supported using a locally grown food.
Drawing over the usual cadastral A-Z map, the Edible Map intervenes with relevant data, icons and narratives, translating ideas of “local food” into tangible, interactive and playful stories, reconnecting people to a sense of place through local food growing.
USE THE EDIBLE MAP TO VISUALISE HOW MUCH FOOD YOU COULD GROW IN CENTRAL CROYDON
