PoughkeepsieGO
波啟浦夕GO
The urban design premise of PoughkeepsieGo is based on fun as a pedagogical concept. By speaking the language of children through gaming to engage and educate about what’s on their plate, we hope to start a food cultural revolution against current junk food habits. The proposal appropriates the vernacular of play in order to instill a critical consciousness of all food-related processes.
#urbangaming
#augmentedreality
#schoollunchreform
_augmented reality urban gaming curriculum
_poughkeepsie_new york_usa
_design completed 2016
#COLLABORATORS
#grace ng #tianyang xie #zhen quan
Site Analysis
_underprivileged district
_free school lunch program
Design Argument
_urban gaming curriculum
_food cultural revolution
Regional Framework
_resources framework
_satellite partnerships
_augmented reality gaming
_food education reform
Micro Implication
_school facilities upgrade
_augmented reality overlay
Compare to surrounding school districts, Poughkeepsie students are significantly underprivileged. Only Poughkeepsie meets the poverty threshold for CEP(Community Elegibility Provision), a universal free meal program. It is also the district with the highest obesity rates.
#fastfooddiet
#foodinjustice
#poornutrition
The gamescape is structured around bringing different schools within Poughkeepsie City School District together; by sharing a common learning experience and a centralized kitchen. It is a strategy of localization in order to make efficient economies of food production and consumption. As children move through the K-12 public school system, they study the entire food cycle and participate in the processes within.
3,000 School districts qualified for Community Eligibility Provision are encouraged to adapt PoughkeepsieGO's urban gaming strategy into their lunch education curriculum. Starts in Hudson Valley as an initiative, the pedagogical concept of PoughkeepsieGO aims to reshape food culture in United States by inviting 8.5 million students from CEP schools to take roles in the entire food production cycle through competitive gaming.
Phase I
Urban Exploration
Elementary School
Phase II
Urban Engagement
Middle School
Phase III
Urban Advocacy
High School
#elementaryschool
#facilityupgrade
#plantinglab
#seedbank
#middleschool
#facilityupgrade
#testkitchen
#communualdining
#highschool
#facilityupgrade
#compostingconveyor
#biofueltanks
PoughkeepsieGO represents a start - a beta version - as an open network, welcoming future expansion to community collaborators for a dynamic gaming curriculum.
