FoodTopia Project
The FoodTopia project was a joint effort in Art, Humanities, and Chemistry. In Art, we focused on talking with 2nd-graders and using them as "clients" in the design thinking process to create garden tiles for the elementary school (HTeNC). In Humanities, we focused on creating videos about our chosen topics; our group's topic was gluten and its use in baking. We chose to make our video modeled partly off of wilderness survival shows and partly off of Buckaroo Bonzai Through the Eighth Dimension, about the gluten-free "fad diet." Finally, in Chemistry, we focused on the chemical structures and various processes of the three macronutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. My project group for all three classes consisted of Isaiah McGuire, Loren Li Cloes, John Contreras, and myself.