"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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About Food Shaping Kyoto>

How has the city of Kyoto been shaped by its culture cultivated over a long period of time and the food ecosystem from production to consumption? In the exhibition "Food Shaping Kyoto" the relationship between the city and food was understood through 6 key words that cross urban structure and food culture-production, water, markets, distribution, urban morphology, and Gion Festival and was depicted by architectural models, food models, tools used in the Nishiki market as well as drawings, photographs, and images that represent the results of research.
Tables introducing urban research, a library tower with objects collected through research, a chamber showing 360-degree video of the market crucial to Kyoto's food culture, and a ceiling installation that inspires Kyoto's traditional food and market decorations were designed to link the circular space characteristic of the Buckminster Fuller Dome with the food ecosystem. We proposed a new exhibition design that provides visitors with a spatial sense of immersion in Kyoto.

photo by Tomomi Takano