poster final

poster series 3

poster series 2

poster series 1

poster images

We have decided to use these images for poster.

photo session 12/06

At today's photo session, we took pictures for Nutrition, Energy and Communication. Photos for Architecture are done in the last photo session.

photo session 09/06 - part 2

photo session 09/06 - part 1

Me, Jony, Antony, Jay and Mark met up in the morning and went to places to take more pictures for the project.

nutrition - video

Feedback from nutrition expert

Jackie, hi,


An interesting idea, your hybrid food, but doesn’t sound like meals would be very much fun! If you think of all the rolls food has in your life other than nutrition it’s difficult to imagine a liquid concentrate being fulfilling. (except of course when you’re working flat out to finish an assignment!)

But to answer your questions: the Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand (NRVs) provide values recommended for all nutrients (you can access this document on the Ministry of Health website). The RDIs provide the amount of nutrients thought to be ensure that most people will have sufficient to meet identified outcomes, this mainly refers to the micronutrients (i.e. vitamins and minerals). Energy obviously depends on activity levels, body composition and growth. And amount of fat and carbohydrates are related to energy (as is protein to some extent)—research has not been able to identify the optimal amount of the energy providing nutrients, but current recommendations to reduce risk of chronic disease are for 20-35% of energy from fat, 45-65% from carbohydrates and 15-25% from protein.

In answer to your 2nd question, yes, we have enough information to produce an artificial food that can allow survival, but 1) who would want to eat only that? And 2) survival might not be optimal. Much of current nutrition research is learning about components of food other than currently identified “essential” nutrients that are beneficial for health. So if you do not get enough vitamin C, after a period of time you will die (so vitamin C is essential), but if by consuming brassicas (e.g. broccoli, brussel sprouts) you will obtain a chemical that will help reduce risk of colon cancer (but if you don’t eat these foods you still might never get colon cancer).

Plants are a more efficient way to obtain nutrition than through animal sources. And it is possible to design a food that meets basic nutritional needs better than is likely when people self-select a diet from all available foods. One of the exciting potentials with plants are the phytochemicals that may have benefits beyond the basic ‘required’ nutrition (i.e. the NRVs/RDIs) – can these be concentrated in your hybrid food, or will they be lost in the processing?

Please feel free to get back to me if you don’t understand my comments.


Best wishes,
Janet

email back from nutrition expert

RE: professional advise seeked for my current research‏‏
From:
Weber, Janet (J.L.Weber@massey.ac.nz)
Sent:
Thu 5/21/09 1:32 PM
To:
jackie chow (jac_msgurl@hotmail.com)


Jackie, hi,

I’m sorry for the delay in getting back to you. It’s been a very busy week, and today will be the same. I hope to be able to get back to you over the weekend or early next week, please let me know if my response at this later time is still useful.


Best wishes,Janet

photo session 21/05

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photo session 17/05

email for nutrition expert

My name is Jackie Chow. I'm a 4th year digital media student from Victoria University. I’m currently doing a group project for a design paper “Design Led Futures” which focuses on the enhanced design concepts for the future.

Our project is designed to look into the lives of human being’s, 80 years in the future. Our theme is based around “plants” and the benefits they could provide for us in the distant future. Our design touches on four different aspects: architecture, communication, energy and nutrition. I am focusing on hybrid food design, nutrition.

My concept for a future hybrid food is a concentrated liquid that contains all the nutritional aspects a human needs. In the future, I believe humans will not need to eat a variety of foods such as meats, vegetables and fruits etc to achieve the required intake of nutrition our bodies need today. Instead I propose this is possible through a manipulated substance that contains H20, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, vitamins and minerals.

In order to complete the project to a convincible level, I need some professional advice or opinion. It would be a great help to my group and I if you can help us to answer a few questions.

Questions:
What are the everyday basic nutritional requirement for a human, as in the average percentage for each nutritional aspect (such as how many percent of the nutrition needed for carbohydrates, how many percent needed for fats, water etc)?

Do you believe that human can survive by feeding on the proposed manipulated substance that contains only the required amount of nutritions needed for human body?

Please comment on the proposed hybrid food in a short paragraph.

Please describe the proposed hybrid food in 3 to 5 keywords.

Please advise on any improvement, or areas of refinement needed for the proposed concept in order to achieve a more convincible design.


*If you wish to know any further information about our project, please let me know, or have a look at the following websites.
our project blog: http://www.atd.ac.nz/dlf/
"Design Led Futures" course website: http://blogs.mediazone.co.nz/2009-dmdn411/
"Design Led Futures" website: http://designledfutures.com/main/-flash



We are looking forward to your reply.

Nutrition expert questions

What are the everyday basic nutritional requirement for a human, as in the average percentage for each nutritional aspect (such as how many percent of the nutrition needed for carbohydrates, how many percent needed for fats, water etc)?

Do you believe that human can survive by feeding on the proposed manipulated substance that contains only the required amount of nutritions needed for human body?

Please comment on the proposed hybrid food in a short paragraph.

Please describe the proposed hybrid food in 3 to 5 keywords.

Please advise on any improvement, or areas of refinement needed for the proposed concept in order to achieve a more convincible design.

sketches

where the hybrid food are generated

overall summary of all design aspects

nutrition - philosophy

Nutrition is a basic human survival need. However, statistics show that only 20% of our dietary intake contain the nutrients we need to absorb. In order to reduce the use of the world’s resources, humans will need to rely on technology to determine the nutrient levels in different foods, and ensure that only the required amount is extracted and used to sustain our lives.

The concept for a future hybrid food is a concentrated liquid that contains all the nutritional aspects a human needs. In the future, we believe humans will not need to eat a variety of foods such as meats, vegetables and fruits etc to achieve the required intake of nutrition our bodies need today. Instead we propose this is possible through a manipulated substance that contains H20, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, vitamins and minerals.

nutrition - experimenting with the structure

here's a version of the structure for the nutrition containing inside the liquid that i've created using blender.

nutrition - hybrid food concept

research

Macronutrients: carbohydrates, fats, fiber, proteins, and water
Micronutrients: minerals, vitamins
* 60% of your weight is water, 20% is of fat, 20% is a combination of mostly protein (esp in muscles) plus carbohydrates, minerals + vitamins.

How many calories do you really need?

age sedentary moderately active active
19 - 30 2,000 2,000 - 2,200 2,400
31 - 50 1,800 2,000 2,200
50 + 1,600 1,800 2,000 - 2,200