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.