Exhibition Design

Food Shaping Kyoto

“Food Shaping Kyoto” documents how the city has been shaped by its culture by visualising it as “food ecosystems”. The exhibition showcases the relationship between the city and food through six key words – including water, markets, distribution, urban morphology and the local Gion Festival – that link urban structure and food culture production. This is then depicted by architectural models, food models and tools used at the local Nishiki Market, as well as by drawings, photographs and images. Also designed were tables introducing urban research, a library tower with collected objects and a chamber showing a 360-degree video of the market, which is crucial to Kyoto’s food culture.

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Credits

Client:

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Design:

Rahbaran Hürzeler Architects, Basel, Switzerland Manuel Herz Architects Basel, Switzerland Kyoto Design Lab Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto, Japan
Project Team:

Manuel Herz Architects: Manuel Herz, Penny Alevizou

Rahbaran Hürzeler Architects: Shadi Rahbaran, Marcel Wagner

Kyoto Design Lab Kyoto Institute of Technology: Yoshiro Ono, Eizo Okada, Takayuki Ikegawa, Takuya Miyake

Singapore University of Technology and Design: Erwin Viray

Kyoto Institute of Technology: Kazuhiro Ogata, Kento Yokose, Heeye Kim, Tomonobu Miyakawa, Meng Sun Ryota Manki, Takashi Hiramoto, Riku Kasai, Takuya Tsunashima