http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/winners-announced/
Winning concepts
We’re excited to announce the Winning Concepts for our Local Food Challenge! Congratulations to our Top 10 and a big shout-out to the entire Community for your incredible work. We've had the best response ever to this spirited challenge. Hopefully you might even be inspired to try out something from them in your own community!
Window to the Farm
A startup business that boosts food traceability and brings producers closer to consumers. The startup would create a wiki style platform for food providers to share their provenance and information on their products. It would sell kits to schoo...
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Tom HulmeApril 05, 2011
12:06PM |
Eatcyclopedia: A Phone App to Help Connect and Inform
UPDATED: Although interactive apps are useful, another possibility for an app is a prebuilt app that can be used offline like an encyclopedia that focuses on food production and consumption. Accessing the information doesn’t have to take place at ...
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Sina MossayebApril 11, 2011
04:06AM |
Market Days + Food Trucks = Serving Low-income Neighborhoods
What if food trucks sold fresh produce instead of hotdogs? Traveling vendors can set-up shop in different neighborhoods on specific days in order to provide fresh food to locals. By providing mobile service, particularly to under-served urban ne...
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Cory QuachApril 08, 2011
08:15PM |
**UPDATED** Strategic Geography and the 'Food Hub' (still a working title)
Learning from the repeated success of the <a href="http://www.cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket/">Rochester Public Market</a>, I am suggesting developing a program or organization (i.e. Farmers-Market-in-a-Box, similar to http://imaginationplaygrou...
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Lauren DellaquilaApril 24, 2011
12:30AM |
A celebration of imperfection
Fruit and veg have become size 8 models. They all look identical, they all glisten, radiate and scream "look at me, I'm perfect". Following generations of comfortability with mass produced identicalness, we've forgotten about the vibrancy and dyna...
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David StocksApril 08, 2011
03:04PM |
Redesign the supermarket layout based on food miles... UPDATED
(Initial concept is below) ** Update** Since building upon this concept through some intense brainstorming with everyone at the OpenIDEO workshop in Brisbane, this concept has developed into 'The Super Challenge: An Australian Event', which (...
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Charlotte FliegnerApril 22, 2011
04:02AM |
Public Kitchen
UPDATED! This is an idea for a public kitchen where you can go and bring any product you would like to process, fruit for juices or marmelade, vegetables for pickles, meet or fish for smoking... The shop provides the necessary equipment as well as...
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VeronikaApril 05, 2011
12:00PM |
50 Within 50
Participating schools will source 50% of their food within 50 miles and the other 50% is sourced within Australasia.
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Jennifer TamApril 12, 2011
07:10AM |
Queensland open sustainability & food day
Imagine IDEO OPEN transferred into Queensland OPEN. When people are involved they have ownership and that is essential to create a change. Global change by acting local. Queensland Government should ask the citizens for help
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peter matzenApril 25, 2011
12:30PM |
Hold Seasonal "Open House" Days at Local Farms
Inspired by artist "open studio" days, the Queensland government could sponsor a 4x yearly "Open House" day at local farms to get urban residents more connected to their local food producers. During the seasonal Open House days, urbanites would ge...
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Rachel GreenwaldApril 07, 2011 12:58PM |
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.openideo.com/open/localfood/realisation/Welcome to the Realisation phase for the Local Food Challenge! This phase will serve as a hub for sharing challenge-related updates as well as stories of implementation and impact. We’ll be posting updates, so we hope you’ll check back regularly to hear the latest from our challenge sponsors, the OpenIDEO Team and our amazing community of OpenIDEATORS – which reminds us: Have you been inspired by this challenge in a way that’s motivated you to act in your community?