How The Modern Food Truck Came To Be
By Emma Chow
We like infographics and we love food trucks, so here’s a snazzy food truck infographic from Mashable Infographics. It charts the evolution of the food truck industry since it started integrating social media into its marketing arsenal. Like any good infographic, you get tasty tidbits of interesting information, like a common street food buzzword is ‘lavendar’. Only American data is used, yet it’s still clear that the recent food truck craze has a lot to do with more creative food offerings enhanced by clever usage of social media.
Read more →The Hong Kong Hawker As Muse
By Emma Chow
Here is a twist on the beloved street food trend. Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong’s latest sculpture, ‘Transform Bar’, is inspired by his local hawker culture.
Read more →Bicycle Dinners
By Emma Chow
Here at the Pop-Up City, we value food beyond its role as basic sustenance. Food is a vital element of cultures and social interactions. We have written about the pop-up food culture, from food trucks to pop-up restaurants. Some time ago, I discovered a charming new way to host a dinner party. And, no, it does not involve eating dinner while riding a bicycle.
Read more →Design In Helsinki — Have Your Own Pop-Up Restaurant On Restaurant Day
By Emma Chow
Mexican street kitchen El Puesto, Helsinki Eat. Drink. Enjoy! Words to live by for residents of Helsinki, World Design Capital 2012. As mentioned in a recent article, Helsinki hosted its 5th worldwide Restaurant Day. Restaurant Day is an international food festival of sorts, where anyone can be a restauranteur for a day. You can set up a pop-up restaurant, [...]
Read more →Kitchain: Modular Furniture For Social Dining In Public Space
By Joop de Boer
Food-related events have become extremely popular in our cities over the last years. Why? Because social dining brings us together. We share our habits, culture and ideas while sitting at the same table. Bernedetta Maxia and António Louro of Lisbon-based art and architecture collective MOOV came up with Kitchain. Originally designed and built for the Belluard Bollwerk International festival, [...]
Read more →Picnic Under A Plastic Pillow
This fascinating outdoor pavilion was created by the designers of Overtreders W, an office based in Zaandam (a suburb of Amsterdam). Entitled ‘Het dak dat opgaat in rook’, or ‘The Roof That Goes Up In Smoke’, their piece of landscape art can house up to 40 picnicking people.
Read more →Street Dinner: A Secret Pop-Up Restaurant
By Joop de Boer
Very secret outdoor pop-up dinners are offered to tourists in the Italian city of Ferrara. The secret location of each dinner is announced last minute with a text message…
Read more →The Mobile Apple Juice Machine
By Joop de Boer
If you’re the owner of a fine apple tree, giving you too many apples to eat, you may be interested in hiring a mobile apple juice machine. Well, that’s possible. The mobile apple juice machine travels around at the Dutch countryside, available on request for fruit farmers, hobby farmers and individuals with apple trees.
Read more →London Underground Dinner Party
By Joop de Boer
The London Circle Line has always been a good place for illegal parties and more legal knitting sessions… But this romantic banquet within the raw urban context of the London tube is really wicked and a nice temporary reinterpretation of public space.
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