Jonathan Naraine
Jonathan Naraine – combines Food with Architecture
I'm an architect with a genuine interest of food and sustainability. The spring of 2014 I finished my bachelor in Architecture at Chalmers in Gothenburg, Sweden. During my studies I've been practicing both permaculture design and biomimicry design and I have involved food production and closed loop systems thinking into my architectural projects.
On my spare time I've been engaged in Slow Food locally & internationally for 5 years and I am passionate about the question of reconnecting people with what they eat. I regularly organize urban farming safaris in town and I have been co-founding and leading the Food Rescue Project for 2,5 years which has now spread to almost all different Univiersity Faculties within Gothenburg.
I am currently developing an educational product for practical education about sustainability and closed loop systems - together with the Visual Water team of architects, a city planner, an engineer and a product developer. A project that made us finalist in two rounds of the international Biomicry Student Design Challenge 2012-2013. Together with this team I am also working as a consult for cities and municipalities.
I like to call myself a food system designer. Incorporating different ways of changing the food system to a more sustainable one through architectural or social interventions.
We were finalists in the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge round 2. This is a picture from the priceceremony in Boston at the Biomimicry international conference in June 2013 at the Harward Club.
In october 2013 we organized our second Food Rescue Party on the Gothenburg "Night of culture" (Kulturnatta). It was a great success with several hundred people coming and around 50 was cooking together.
At the end of the Urban farming safari I organized in Gothenburg 2012 we participated in the Good Food March to and sent our message to the politicians about the reform of the CAP (commmon agricultural policy)