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Meals on Wheels and Take Something Apart: Final Project Galleries

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Mississippi Carts at a Glance

 

Foodcartology

 

 

Our group focused on the food carts on Fifth and Stark. We went between classes one day to interview the people at the carts and split into two groups to do the interviewing. 

Sauce!

 

We set out on our project with only one thing in mind: sauce. Our first order of business was to create a survey asking all types of questions: who makes the sauce, what its shelf life is, what is the weirdest thing they’ve ever seen it put on, etc. Then we headed down to the foodcarts of SE 12th and Hawthorne on a slow thursday evening and passed them all out. We were hoping that between Thursday and Saturday the cart staff would have enough time to check out their ingredients lists, think about their cart’s ebb and flow of sauce and, if they weren’t sure about any of the questions, ask the right people.

Bargain Bites

 Our group gathered data pertaining to the food carts on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Washington Street. We met before and after class and communicated by email and phone to coordinate our schedules. We tried to have at least one person research the carts each day. The first set of questions we used consisted of: number of employees, cook and preparation time, meat options compared to vegetarian options, reshness of ingredients, ingredient costs and overhead. Our visual inspiration for the final look of our poster is inspired by an isometric map Greg presented to the group.

The Tipping Point

Our group (Ben, Julian, Oliver and Heather) investigated the food carts on SW 5^th and Stark, and oh. man. The 5^th/Stark carts did NOT disappoint! 

Mississippi Marketplace: Exploring North Portland's Food Carts

Alex, Alan and Andy

"The North Portland Foodcarts aren't about food; they're about people. From the local resident that started the cart, to the neighbor that frequents these establishments, everyone involved has a story."

Al Fresco

I hate suspense so let me show you what we did.

 

Now how did we get to this final thing, well first off:

What is Meals on Wheels? One of the easiest and toughest assignments that has been dished out to us design students. Food carts are simple right? Tasty? Yes. But mapping them and self generating our own content, actually work and do things? Never. Perhaps we've been sliding along so far with generated data but now we had to work together.

A Bird's Eye View: Peggy's Food Cart Tour

Bre / Lisa / Amanda

Our group began by thinking of different directions we could go with this project. Did we want to interview the cart owners? Did we want to talk with the customers?  What would we ask either of these groups? We had a bunch of interesting ideas but we had to consider how much time we would have as a group to acquire all of this data. We also didn't know what our street looked like, how many carts we had, what they were like, and what kind of carts they were so we thought that the first thing we should do was to go down and look at our street. 

Portland Food Carts vs Traditional Restaurants

Our group was assigned to the 5th and Stark location. Early on, in our brainstorming process, we decided we wanted to focus more on the physical carts themselves, rather than the food that is offered by the carts.

There were a lot of things to consider when looking at the physical appearance of the carts that one may normally over look. After collecting our data, we were analyzing the data and trying to decide how we would be able to chart and graph the data.

Eventually we were are awe regarding the fact that there were 23 carts sharing the space of less than one block, an area that a traditional restaurant would occupy. From there, we would to look at and compare the difference between the consumption of a restaurant and a food cart