Homegrown installation creates a community recipe wall

8 Jul 2011

Deicke Richards interior designer Magda Myszkowski, urban designer Hayley Phillips and graduate architect Josh Spillane joined forces with creative colleagues to create an installation at Aqua Diner, South Bank.

In collaboration with interior designer Jennifer Hudson (bureau^proberts), industrial designer Ian Knight and industrial design student Corrine Cognet, their installation – Brisbane GROWth – melds the Brisbane CBD grid with the slow food movement.

The installation was part of the Homegrown 2011 exhibition, organised by the Design Institute of Australia’s Queensland Branch in partnership with South Bank Corporation.

It uses the glass façade of Aqua Diner to map the Brisbane River and its surrounding grids, which are then used to house information about good food sources such as local farmers’ markets.

The interactive installation is literally organic and will continue to grow as people contribute their food hotspots and favourite recipes, using locally grown food in the vertical recipe wall.

The installation encourages reflection about urban community life and current food strategies and is designed to revive the sense of positive community spirit demonstrated during the region’s 2011 flood events.

In the creators’ words: ‘Brisbane Growth aims to evolve our sensory perception of the city and to proactively promote a more healthy and sustainable identity for the future of South East Queensland’.

The work is one of a series of public installations, created as part of the Homegrown exhibition and shown in shop fronts in Little Stanley Street and Stanley Street Plaza. The installations will show in the lead up to the South Bank based food event, Regional Flavours 2011.

Recipes will be uploaded to the installation’s Facebook page. Visit the Regional Flavours website for more on the initiative.